Replies

Ya need to download more RAM, another 16GB should sort it!

3 users thanked author for this post.

SueW, Alex5723, PKCano

Give it a check with Hard Disk Sentinel, https://www.hdsentinel.com/index.php fully working trial which tends to show more accurate details (some are vendor-specific so can be easily misread).

The forum there is frequented by the developer, who has always seemed to be ready to help and should be able to clear up any confusion over what’s real and what’s wrong.

Paul T wrote:

who are Wagnardsoft and can we trust their products? Have you tried this utility?

I’ve used this many times, probably a minimum of once a year for the last couple of decades. It’s commonly used where there are graphics-related issues that prevent expected performance and/or BSODs that point toward graphics hardware/drivers.

It probably became prominent/commonly used during the period of notebooks with dual/switching graphics – late Vista, early W7.

As the above screenshots show, it can also reduce the amount of old data clogging our System drives.

3 users thanked author for this post.

Paul T, Alex5723, PKCano

Paul T wrote:

User feedback does works – sometimes!  🙂

cheers, Paul

That was my gut feeling after my episode bouncing through different viewports en route to to regaining ‘my’ Yahoo mail, it felt like they’d slipped me into a different classification, maybe called ‘No Fluff’, after making them aware of how I’d felt when they tried to corral me inside some developers dream of ‘a brilliant idea’.

Good to see it appears to be fixed now, nice work Linda.

I’ve no idea about “Adobe Genuine Service”, no experience of it; maybe some of the other Loungers have and can advise based on their experience/use of it?

If the above doesn’t get close enough to allow specific error detection, you could try this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/upgrade/log-files

1 user thanked author for this post.

Michael1950

Look again at the internal USB connection settings in Device Manager or the advanced Power section in Settings for the checkbox:

If you find this checked on any USB hub, uncheck it.

There are 2x possible Adobe products, one of which appears to match your error (Adobe GCClient, as pointed out by @b ) is the 2nd item down.

You could uncheck it – but, as well illustrated by the many copies listed as unchecked to date, the best way to remove a startup is to start that software then find and unset the setting to autostart.

I think a lesson on using Autoruns is needed soon to cleanup the unnecessary lines 🙂

Re. FAT32 drive/partition sizes, MS announced changes ~7 months ago that were being rolled out to Insiders on Windows 11: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-removes-fat32-partition-size-limit-in-windows-11/ I’ve not kept track of progress but I doubt Macs will be up to date yet.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Will Fastie

Speed Test Result
DOWNLOAD
16.5 Mbps
bursting to 16.8 Mbps
UPLOAD
1.5 Mbps
bursting to 1.6 Mbps
Your Latency: 89 ms

16/2Mbps cable connection here, this page took me 11-12 seconds to load.

So many little complications to pop up and mess with fast connections but very few we can deal with directly.

A few tracert readouts might help us all.

Download not allowed unless signed in with an MS account?

Don’t sign in and it’s not allowed to pollute/play smokescreen?

Advertising blurb = smokescreen.

Alex5723 wrote:

allow local users

Yes, we should all worry about people with access to our machines tweaking them to run cooler and quieter….

Better allow them to open the windows and wear ear defenders, so sneak thieves can relocate them somewhere safe?

Ring0 is the Windows kernel, some software must have access to portions of that to measure/control base hardware and settings.

Update if the software you use is actually required for your needs. Lock the door when you leave.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Marvel Wars

No worries Linda, I had to do a quick search but came up with what feels like a very useful answer or two here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-manageremove-startup-programs-in-windows-7/c2ff3fd1-3e32-46d9-9522-ec05034a2db1

Marvel Wars wrote:

Gigabyte Control Center

Yup, that’ll be the most likely – and it could have bitten me too but I’d uninstalled it after not using it for a couple of months.

1 user thanked author for this post.

Marvel Wars