Please celebrate with me the FINAL time I will have fixed a Windows machine for anyone, anywhere. It will not happen again unless they want me to fix it by installing another operating system on it. Over 48 hours ago I reluctantly took on the task of restoring a Windows 7 netbook to factory settings. Of course, this process restores Windows 7 Starter Edition to its installation state circa 2010. The first thing I did was remove all of the preinstalled software, including McAfee and Norton Backup. Then I installed Microsoft Security Essentials and began the long, slow process of system updates. After the first day of fighting a single stalled IE11 update, I changed to important updates only. Over two days later, I have ONLY JUST NOW succeeded in getting all the windows updates installed. For the first time, cpu is at 1% (was mostly pinned at 100% on both hyperthreaded halves of the Atom cpu for 2 days) and memory is at 581 MB (was over 900MB until now). Starting Firefox only takes 10 seconds, starting Skype only takes 15 seconds. Luckily it wont be used for much else. I will recommend that my aunt takes a picture while its still in pristine working order if she wants to remember this moment, for it will be fleeting.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 02:07:33 +0000
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