Windows 10 is running slow -- Fixed

I will add another feature you need to turn off. It is windows index service. That is the operation that does not allow you to remove USB stick and causes a lot of grinding on your disk drive. I want to thank Jim for his post. I don't know if will improve my lap top but it is worth a try.

I will add a item that will most likely flame me, I am tiered of people jumping in on a helpful post saying that I should use Lenox or Apple because it is so much better than widows. I'm sorry but people choose to use the operating system they want and folks just want some help on making it work better. Yes I have used all three and all of them are lacking. I prefer windows and will stick with it. By the way, I have used computer since pre DOS days so I am very familiar with them.
 
I will add another feature you need to turn off. It is windows index service. That is the operation that does not allow you to remove USB stick and causes a lot of grinding on your disk drive. I want to thank Jim for his post. I don't know if will improve my lap top but it is worth a try.

I will add a item that will most likely flame me, I am tiered of people jumping in on a helpful post saying that I should use Lenox or Apple because it is so much better than widows. I'm sorry but people choose to use the operating system they want and folks just want some help on making it work better. Yes I have used all three and all of them are lacking. I prefer windows and will stick with it. By the way, I have used computer since pre DOS days so I am very familiar with them.

Yes, that's another good one to shut down, ARKnack. Re: pre-DOS days, I dabbled in Fortran and Pascal a little bit but don't remember any of it these days. I am still proficient in DOS but that's because of work. You remember bulletin board systems, aka "BBS"? I ran one for a number of years. Then the Internet happened and that was the end of that. I think FIDO is still around in some countries.
 
Yup I remember. My first real computer was a 486x66 and had a 9600 baud modem to talk to BBS. Set it up before we went to bed for a download and hoped it didn't crash during the night. Most of the time it did. Our remote field monitors at work were RTL logic at a whopping 45 baud.:eek: Paper tape, punch cards, octal, HEX, Fortran, Basic forgot them all. Got out of computers when I changed jobs. Anyone remember core memory. :frog:
 
Before fido(stil is active in .nl) I Used the 27 MHz amateur radio to stransmitt al kinds of digital stuff back then with à commodore 64 and homebrewed converter later got on the bbs board with My amiga500 at first and soon after with amiga2000
Great discovery and first steps in digital communication. Were exiting times. Grts.



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Anyone remember core memory. :frog:
Somewhere in Corvallis I have a couple of core memory boards from an old HP computer. Great fun to look at with a microscope!

Nowadays, the term "core memory" refers to the memory circuit resident on the CPU chip :(
 
Well ... it turns out I was wrong. Found the core memory module here in Phoenix. So for all you old geezers who want to take a trip down memory lane, here's a 24K (as far as I can tell) core stack. I broke it open, and the second photo shows two of the four circuit board sides containing ferrite cores. Note that there are some tiny white blobs visible in the third photo. The last photo shows a close-up of one. These blobs are extra insulation applied to wire flaws and/or splices. All the cores were hand threaded. Enjoy!
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Well ... it turns out I was wrong. Found the core memory module here in Phoenix. So for all you old geezers who want to take a trip down memory lane, here's a 24K (as far as I can tell) core stack. I broke it open, and the second photo shows two of the four circuit board sides containing ferrite cores. Note that there are some tiny white blobs visible in the third photo. The last photo shows a close-up of one. These blobs are extra insulation applied to wire flaws and/or splices. All the cores were hand threaded. Enjoy!
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Brought back memories.... Helped a electronics technician trouble shoot a GE 550 machine controller (anyone remember the GE 550's?) back in 1979. The memory was a mass of wiring like above on a format about 24" x 36" in the back of the panel. Something like a 2K or 4K memory. We had to physically go in and replace burnt wires with new ones. Good old days!
 
A little update. I have still been experiencing problems with the computer. New memory and new hard drive installed. Finally concluded it's a problem with the mother board, pretty sure one of the memory slots is flakey. Symptoms have been random program failures, Windows just rebooting the machine because of an error, errors on program load, etc.

But I seemed to have fixed it yesterday. I concluded that it was time for a new computer, found a nice i7 Dell on Craigslist for $200...... But what seemed to fix the problems was the phone call to the seller. The instant I hung up from that phone call, my computer quit throwing errors, and has been running fine since. Talk about AI becoming self aware..........:confused: This is a little scarey.:cautious:

Still going to buy the Dell because I need another computer for an upcoming project anyway.
 
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