HDD 100% Usage

[Tricky]

Re: HDD 100% Usage

SSd's and more ram are not always the magic bullet. I have an aging Toshiba Satellite with Intel Celeron900 2.2ghz 4 gigs ram and a ssd.
The actual OS Lubuntu ain't too bad, but Firefox takes 6 seconds to start and a further 18 seconds to go from Google to YouTube with the fan maxing out along with the cpu.
Over the years web browsers get update taking advantage of newer features incorporated in processors making older equipment like my laptop obsolete.

[Tricky]

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"This file contains Virus or Malware"

Tells my WindowsDefender!!!

Hans

I downloaded and opened the file yesterday using a Linux computer, unfortunately Windows Defender isn't available for that one.

[Gift]

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SSd's and more ram are not always the magic bullet. I have an aging Toshiba Satellite with Intel Celeron900 2.2ghz 4 gigs ram and a ssd.
The actual OS Lubuntu ain't too bad, but Firefox takes 6 seconds to start and a further 18 seconds to go from Google to YouTube with the fan maxing out along with the cpu.
Over the years web browsers get update taking advantage of newer features incorporated in processors making older equipment like my laptop obsolete.

Well this Celeron is ~13yo and wasn't even a good choice when it came out^^ At some point there are no miracles to expect.

@using tools etc:

I usually skip the deep diagnoses part - if the general hardware specs are "OK-ish" and the OS seems "clean" but the performance is bad, I usually just take a look if the drive load is maxing out 100% while there are no demanding tasks. Fortunately the price for SSDs are (still) cheap.

[livancicm]

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if w10 64 ssd is must
w10 32 works ok with hdd

[tonerhead]

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SSd's and more ram are not always the magic bullet. I have an aging Toshiba Satellite with Intel Celeron900 2.2ghz 4 gigs ram and a ssd.
The actual OS Lubuntu ain't too bad, but Firefox takes 6 seconds to start and a further 18 seconds to go from Google to YouTube with the fan maxing out along with the cpu.
Over the years web browsers get update taking advantage of newer features incorporated in processors making older equipment like my laptop obsolete.

I have had the same with my Lubuntu. Try Chromium instead. Very smooth and fast.

[tonerhead]

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if w10 64 ssd is must
w10 32 works ok with hdd

Agree, but I'd stay away from 32bit anything anymore. Most things don't play well with it.

[slimslob]

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Agree, but I'd stay away from 32bit anything anymore. Most things don't play well with it.

I wonder why it is then that MFP manufacturers like Ricoh still refuse to write 64 bit TWAIN drivers?

[BillyCarpenter]

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Just a quick follow up. I replaced both HDD's with SSD's. On the first one, that's basically all that was needed. On the 2nd one, I found 27 infections when I ran Malware Bytes. Moreover, I found multiple extensions that had been added to Google Chrome. That was hogging up CPU and RAM resources.

Once I got all of that straighten out, I did a little research and testing on multiple browsers. Personally, I use Chrome and I know it has a bad reputation but I like it.

I tested the following:

a.) Chrome
b.) Edge
c.) FireFox
d.) Opera


The clear winner was EDGE. It used the least amount of CPU and RAM. By a pretty wide margin.

Surprisingly, FireFox used almost as much resources as Chrome.

I didn't test all the browsers. Hopefully others can add to my list. And feel free to disagree. You're not gonna hurt my feelings.

[KenB]

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I wonder why it is then that MFP manufacturers like Ricoh still refuse to write 64 bit TWAIN drivers?

[rthonpm]

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While 64-bit operating systems can run 32-bit applications without issues, Windows 10 is the last version of Windows that will have a 32-bit edition. Windows 11 RTM, OEM, and retail versions will all be x64. This finally puts them on the same footing as MacOS and mainstream Linux distros which have all dropped x86 versions years ago.

Ricoh saw no need to go with x64 TWAIN since it's much easier to get the same effect from a WIA driver that hooks into the OS more effectively than TWAIN ever did. Most mainstream image apps also natively support it.

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[rthonpm]

Re: HDD 100% Usage

Just a quick follow up. I replaced both HDD's with SSD's. On the first one, that's basically all that was needed. On the 2nd one, I found 27 infections when I ran Malware Bytes. Moreover, I found multiple extensions that had been added to Google Chrome. That was hogging up CPU and RAM resources.

Once I got all of that straighten out, I did a little research and testing on multiple browsers. Personally, I use Chrome and I know it has a bad reputation but I like it.

I tested the following:

a.) Chrome
b.) Edge
c.) FireFox
d.) Opera


The clear winner was EDGE. It used the least amount of CPU and RAM. By a pretty wide margin.

Surprisingly, FireFox used almost as much resources as Chrome.

I didn't test all the browsers. Hopefully others can add to my list. And feel free to disagree. You're not gonna hurt my feelings.

Really you only tested two browsers: Chrome, Edge, and Opera all use the same rendering engine. Firefox is the last browser still using its own engine, Gecko. The only difference comes in the fact that Chrome has all of Google's account layers built into the browser (much like the difference between Android Open Source and a Google Play version). Edge is built into the OS so it can hit a few deeper levels of integration.

For that machine with the infections, it's likely better to just completely build the thing new as I'd be shocked if there wasn't a rootkit or some nefarious driver in there as well.

My own company standard is to only load two browsers: Edge and the ESR version of Firefox. Both are managed by group policy with one of the settings being to preload uBlock Origin for ad blocking.



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[GeneOR95]

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My protection software blocked your link. In the future try not to post malicious links.

That is not a malicious link. I have used that service often. Your protection software is a little too protective.

[GeneOR95]

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"This file contains Virus or Malware"

Tells my WindowsDefender!!!

Hans

It contains nothing but a windows compiled html help file that runs on pretty much all windows versions. The file is FixHundredPerCentError.chm. And my Windows defender doesn't have any problem with it.

[slimslob]

Re: HDD 100% Usage

It contains nothing but a windows compiled html help file that runs on pretty much all windows versions. The file is FixHundredPerCentError.chm. And my Windows defender doesn't have any problem with it.

Those "Fix anything" files are notorious for being used by numerous malicious programs. You must not be much of a tech if you have to use such websites to to repair computers.

[BillyCarpenter]

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Really you only tested two browsers: Chrome, Edge, and Opera all use the same rendering engine. Firefox is the last browser still using its own engine, Gecko. The only difference comes in the fact that Chrome has all of Google's account layers built into the browser (much like the difference between Android Open Source and a Google Play version). Edge is built into the OS so it can hit a few deeper levels of integration.

For that machine with the infections, it's likely better to just completely build the thing new as I'd be shocked if there wasn't a rootkit or some nefarious driver in there as well.

My own company standard is to only load two browsers: Edge and the ESR version of Firefox. Both are managed by group policy with one of the settings being to preload uBlock Origin for ad blocking.



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Let me make sure I'm understanding correctly. Are you saying that I needed to do a clean install of Windows 10 on the laptop that had the infections? If so, then what about the customer's data from the old drive? Can it be saved?