Since the hicough with the GPS Mouse a few weeks ago, the laptop has been running sluggish. For example - 75 seconds to boot up! The other day, it completely failed to boot, and I ended up in safe mode to get it working again!
Today, I went to use it this morning, and it failed to boot again. I was in no mood to mess about again, so I booted to the "PowerQuest Drive Image" CDROM, and selected a complete system restore. I took a complete image, just after XMAS last year of my working system with most of the bits on.
Within an hour I had a working system again, but I have been "Tweaking" for most of the day, on and off... 19 MB of Windows updates for starters, remove a couple of apps that have fallen by the wayside in the last 5 months, update the virus checker, add Desktop Sidebar, do a boot time defrag of the HDD, run Bootvis a couple of times to ensure rapid startup. Smaller updates have also been done ; Flash 7 installed into IE, Fun packs downloaded and added to Media Player and Movie Maker...
I am now just about done, one last defrag of the D drive, and I can create a new Drive Image of the PC - Ready for the next time it fails!
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