The Retirement Thread

[ColinJ]

@Dirk - when the people of Devon and Cornwall start reacting to the hordes of new 'settlers' like @oldwheels does to those on Mull, I'll let them know who to blame for the influx!

 

[pawl]

Main bearing ???

Worn chain and cassette?

 

[aferris2]

Off -> ready (including typing password, relaunching apps): 42 seconds to get back here

Hmmm. Maybe I need to look into getting an SSD. Win10 takes somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes to get to a usable state from off. 2TB SSD disks aren't cheap though.
I did treat daughters laptop to a SSD over christmas and the difference in starting time is huge

 

[classic33]

Time for The Repair Shop. See what they are fixing today.

A washing machine by any chance?

 

[numbnuts]

Worn chain and cassette?

Bike washing machine

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A little bit of excitement here this afternoon, we've had the plumber in to sort out a sticky toilet flush, new flush unit fitted, the old unit was 13 years old so had done good service, the fly in the ointment was the stop cock, its leaking when closed but not when open, looks like we're going to have to change it. I've also cleaned the car interior, first time its been cleaned for several weeks.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Great advice. One of my friends had problem with his washing machine , took the top off it and started poking around . There was a large bang and he woke up an hour later in hospital , it was still connected to mains .lol
The part of this story that all his friends found funny was the fact he is an electrician 😂😂😂😀

My tale is a sadder one. An acquaintance who was an Electrician who I knew through work was electrocuted. He was fixing his washing machine. They speculated that his metal watch band must have touched a live terminal when he was reaching into the machine with his Multi Meter 🥲
Then there was another lad who was doing a favour for a neighbour. Went up in the loft, asked if they had a torch and the neighbour passed up a table lamp. The wiring to the lamp terminals was later found to be loose / faulty as he too died.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Bike washing machine
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I'd buy that...

 

[welsh dragon]

You could try sitting on top of the machine, on a spin cycle to see if you can pin point the problem.

She may get to enjoy that too much

Shut it you 2

 

[ColinJ]

Hmmm. Maybe I need to look into getting an SSD. Win10 takes somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes to get to a usable state from off. 2TB SSD disks aren't cheap though.

That is WAY too slow, even from a HDD on an oldish machine!

I'm not making any accusations, but...

I cleaned up a friend's PC after her teenage son's porn habits resulted in 500 infections, a Windows boot time of over 30 minutes, and the machine taking 30 seconds to switch between open windows!

I set her up as admin, banished her sons to user accounts and told her she was responsible for running the computer.

Within a week or so, it was infected again. I asked her if she had installed anything and she said no. I was surprised, until I asked what the boys had been up to. "Oh, they wanted to put some free stuff on there but weren't allowed to do it because you had messed with their accounts, so I told them my password ..."!

Aaaaaaaaaargh!

I refused to touch the machine again so she had to pay a shop £50+ to sort it out.

I suggest running a decent anti-virus program to see if your machine is clogged up with malware.

If not, take a look at what is running. Do Ctrl-Alt-Del and call up the Task Manager. See if something is hogging the resources of the machine.

I did treat daughters laptop to a SSD over christmas and the difference in starting time is huge

Yes, they can be a very worthwhile upgrade!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

If the machine is quite old the it may need replacing
but if not them a memory upgrade plus an SSD will give you loads more performance

It would also be worth re-installing WIndows from scratch - - of course after saving everything you need to keep and making sure that you have the means to re-install any other software (Word processors, spreadsheets etc) that are still needed
Of course - if you are switching to SSD then this can be automatic and the old HDD gives you an easy backup to restore from.

 

[aferris2]

That is WAY too slow, even from a HDD on an oldish machine!

I'm not making any accusations, but...


I refused to touch the machine again so she had to pay a shop £50+ to sort it out.

I suggest running a decent anti-virus program to see if your machine is clogged up with malware.

If not, take a look at what is running. Do Ctrl-Alt-Del and call up the Task Manager. See if something is hogging the resources of the machine.


Yes, they can be a very worthwhile upgrade!

No malware (at least according to Malwarebytes, Avast etc.). It's an i7 with 16GB RAM so should be reasonably capable even now.
I think the main problem is that it started out life with Vista, then Win7, then WIn10. It's had all sorts of mainly software development applications on it over the years which have been used for a bit then updated or removed and new ones installed in their place. I suspect its full of obsolete stuff that hasn't been removed properly.
I really should do a complete reinstall, but that seems like a lot of hard work.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

No malware (at least according to Malwarebytes, Avast etc.). It's an i7 with 16GB RAM so should be reasonably capable even now.
I think the main problem is that it started out life with Vista, then Win7, then WIn10. It's had all sorts of mainly software development applications on it over the years which have been used for a bit then updated or removed and new ones installed in their place. I suspect its full of obsolete stuff that hasn't been removed properly.
I really should do a complete reinstall, but that seems like a lot of hard work.

If you don;t want to doa complete re-install then I would invest in something to optimise the system and properly delete all un-needed applications
It may also need a defragment running
Windows does tend to slow down after time due to fragmentation of "stuff" - so the upgrades from Vista upwards - plus the normal constant upgrades will all have had an effect.
Ccleaner can help - and it's free
to go further I use WInoptimiser from Ashampoo - just because they often have deals on so I got it cheap many years ago.

 

[ColinJ]

No malware (at least according to Malwarebytes, Avast etc.). It's an i7 with 16GB RAM so should be reasonably capable even now.
I think the main problem is that it started out life with Vista, then Win7, then WIn10. It's had all sorts of mainly software development applications on it over the years which have been used for a bit then updated or removed and new ones installed in their place. I suspect its full of obsolete stuff that hasn't been removed properly.
I really should do a complete reinstall, but that seems like a lot of hard work.

I have an i7 on this nippy laptop and only 8 GB of RAM, so something sounds definitely up with yours.

I had a problem with a failing HDD once. It was struggling with bad sectors. Try some HDD maintenance?

If you put a new drive in then you will have a lot of hassle anyway, so you might as well try putting a fresh installation of Win 10 on first. MInd you, the SSD would be nice.

Do you really need TBs of storage? I only have 256 GB on this machine and about 45% of it is still free. If you do need a lot of space and can run 2 drives, why not boot and launch programs from an SSD for speed, and use the HDD just for bulk storage?

 

[classic33]

Bike washing machine
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They could take it in turns, especially on the spin cycle.