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NICK_ADSL_UK
(fountain of knowledge) Wed 26-Jun-13 23:40:35

Re: disaster ??

[re: philippercival] [link to this post]

the correct course of action when a update prevents a shutdown is to turn the computer off and to restart it as quite often the update was successful but if not just download it again

The main reasons for not shutting down are the user has not been performing regular monthly updates' this causes a build-up of updates and this includes java and flash or the user has to many start up program's running and has run out of memory

There are a few other reasons like a very high laptop temperature and vast amounts of junk being accumulated on the hard drive' but in the main lack of care and attention to detail in the computers operation and handling

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Edited by NICK_ADSL_UK (Wed 26-Jun-13 23:44:22)

philippercival
(experienced) Thu 27-Jun-13 11:50:55

Re: disaster ??

[re: NICK_ADSL_UK] [link to this post]

Thank you for that. There were about a months worth of updates.

I did try and restart it, restore to the last know good configuration, recover/repair etc, but it gradually got worse and worse, finally getting to the point it was hanging in the start up process in safe mode.

The machine was first setup under Vista, then upgraded to WIN 7, which according to something I found on Google probably means it is about 4 years old. Over that time I have install vast amounts of software to Use , try, solve a problem, experiment, etc. Some was cleaned off again some was not. I did tweak the startup files quite a lot but was probably guilty of:-

vast amounts of junk being accumulated on the hard drive' but in the main lack of care and attention to detail in the computers operation and handling

The new setup is certainly a great deal faster and I think I have recovered everything I need (fingers crossed). The only snag being most tasks take rather longer the first time I do them as a template or something has to be recovered.

Windows update is now on auto and I will not let it annoy me again into turning it off.

Thank you all for the advice and help.

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NICK_ADSL_UK
(fountain of knowledge) Thu 27-Jun-13 12:39:25

Re: disaster ??

[re: philippercival] [link to this post]

In reply to a post by philippercival:
Thank you for that. There were about a months worth of updates.

I did try and restart it, restore to the last know good configuration, recover/repair etc, but it gradually got worse and worse, finally getting to the point it was hanging in the start up process in safe mode.

The machine was first setup under Vista, then upgraded to WIN 7, which according to something I found on Google probably means it is about 4 years old. Over that time I have install vast amounts of software to Use , try, solve a problem, experiment, etc. Some was cleaned off again some was not. I did tweak the startup files quite a lot but was probably guilty of:-

vast amounts of junk being accumulated on the hard drive' but in the main lack of care and attention to detail in the computers operation and handling

The new setup is certainly a great deal faster and I think I have recovered everything I need (fingers crossed). The only snag being most tasks take rather longer the first time I do them as a template or something has to be recovered.

Windows update is now on auto and I will not let it annoy me again into turning it off.

Thank you all for the advice and help.

you're very welcome hope it all settles down as I'm sure it will

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