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Oh... Goodness. Yeah, that's not going to do you many favors. Your computer is hovering around the minimum requirements for Windows. For starters, 2GB is practically nothing. I've seen a single tab opened to a Google app page take nearly half of that alone. Now factor in that once your computer exhausts the available RAM, it starts swapping to the pagefile on your (7200k RPM) hard drive like mad, and things are going to grind to a halt. Just out of curiosity, what is the processor in your PC?

As far as solutions for you OP, I don't really know what to tell you. You'd be better served buying another PC. You can get a pretty decent desktop running Windows 10 for around $300 or less depending.

I'd recommend you try running WinDirStat. It will scan your c drive and give you a very nice graphical interface to find out where all that storage is going to.

https://windirstat.net/download.html

My hunch is that it would be C:\windows\logs\ that is using up all the storage. Sometimes when Windows updates has been failing you can end up with a ton of CBS logs in that log folder and they eat up a lot of space. Run WinDirStat first though to see where all that data is. I'd say Windows folder should be under about 20GB

I would recommend that you install "equalizer apo" https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/ Then also "peace equalizer ui" https://sourceforge.net/projects/peace-equalizer-apo-extension/

With that, I have been able to finetune my audio experience with either my sound card or with the hdmi output of my laptop.

You can use it to boost your audio output volume and/or add more higher or deeper ends to your audio experience.

It could be a hardware failure of your USB controller on your motherboad or a bad driver.

If you have another computer or a friend with a PC you could try and create a bootable USB of Hiren's Boot CD, if your keyboard and mouse work with that then it's not a hardware failure and probably a driver issue.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/

If it's usable with Hiren's you could copy what you need from the PC to a USB device and then reinstall windows from scratch.

Other people may have better suggestions.

You should have used that account with Admin rights to create a new User with Admin rights (Yours) then logged in as the new Admin User and deleted the Previous user. Renaming profiles causes issues like you are seeing.

https://winaero.com/blog/delete-user-profile-windows-10/

Hi, I think the best way is to use a second account to delete your own profile.

If I read correctly, your 'default' account is admin, so you can make a second admin account to errase your 'default ' completely.

https://winaero.com/blog/delete-user-profile-windows-10/

Try using chocolatey package manager

• Run Powershell as admin
• Enter the following commands
• Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned
• Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('<code>https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1</code>'))
• choco install firefox googlechrome chromium -y

Choco installs apps with elevated command line privileges. Maybe that will help. If it does not, 'superfetch' eating your resources does sound suspicious. Try scanning your PC with BitDefender as well (get the free version or full trial). If even that does not work, try resetting your PC.

Try Search Everything - https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/

Way better than windows search, your characters work on it, you can do neat things like size:<5000kb, child:*.jpg (find folders containing jpgs), !dupe: (don't show duplicates), filter on folder / videos / images / documents / etc.

Do you use something like bug.n (https://github.com/fuhsjr00/bug.n). I just checked and with no gapps I get that result, since I set my gapps to 5px or something I have standard even bigger gapps but that is because i want to.

Shoot, it looks like this is a common problem. There are a bunch of different options you can try in this thread. Try unplugging as many devices as you can from your system, and maybe different bootable drive if you can too.

I would start by checking temperatures while running a few passes at least of memtest86+ downloadable here https://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.iso.zip

I have also run your text through google translate as I imagine we are mostly English speakers here.

Ich würde damit beginnen, die Temperaturen zu überprüfen, während ich mindestens ein paar Durchgänge von memtest86 + laufen lasse, die hier heruntergeladen werden können: https://www.memtest.org/download/5.01/memtest86+-5.01.iso.zip

Ich habe Ihren Text auch über Google Übersetzer ausgeführt, da ich mir vorstelle, dass wir hier hauptsächlich Englisch sprechen.

Ich habe Ihren Text auch über Google Übersetzer ausgeführt, da ich mir vorstelle, dass wir hier hauptsächlich Englisch sprechen.

I deleted and completely set up my PC two weeks ago (the hard disk also formatted)

But now everything is practically useless, the apps and programs crash without an error message or games freeze and then crash (even without an error message) sfc scannow is useless Troubleshoot is also useless memory diagnostic tool is also useless

I also get blue screens like Critical Procces died quite often; Paging fault in nonpaged area; kernel security check failure; system service exception

Windows 10 64bit

Yes, all drivers are up to date

No, it is not a virus

No temperatures are always okay

Be sure to report bugs to the project if you run across any. If the program doesn't see the Push-To-Talk button, maybe it can be added in a future release.

https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/issues

Give SharpKeys a try. It's an open-source button mapping program for Windows 7 and up (64-bit only). If the computer recognizes the Push-To-Talk button but just doesn't do anything, SharpKeys can affiliate an action with the button press.

https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys/releases/download/v3.9/sharpkeys39.msi

I'm sorry I'm not being very helpful here 🙁 would you mind it if you lost the "sets" feature that was recently introduced? I believe it's that feature that's causing your extra space. Here's a guide on how to turn it off.

After you upgrade your Windows 10, system enable Fast startup. So you must disable it again. https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-or-enable-fast-startup-in-windows-10/

Or turn off hibernation with administrator elevated command prompt type: powercfg -h off

Then shortcuts will work like before.

Have you tried Display Fusion? It helps a lot with multi-monitor setups. Among other things, you can specify which monitor you want apps to open on.

https://www.displayfusion.com/

I'm going to take a stab in the dark here....

The 5tb Barracuda is a SMR drive

https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/internal-hard-drives/cmr-smr-list/

When an SMR drives writes to the disk some data overlaps other data so it has to rewrite part of the existing data. Also with these SMR drives after Windows shows that the disk operation is over you can still hear the drive reorganizing data on the drive.

I have a five 8tb SMR drives in my PC but I only use them to store my media files...The read performance is good, but the write performance is horrible. I don't really care about the write performance just that the data is reliably written and read. SMR are also great for use as archival or backup drives because the per TB cost is so cheap.

SMR drives are the worst possible choice for a boot drive..

If you want to see what the true read write performance is turn the computer on and let it sit idle for 30 minutes or however long it takes for the hard drive to stop thrashing, then do a test with Crystal Disk Mark

https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/

You really should use an NVME or SSD as your boot drive snd be careful not to buy a cheap SSD, as a lot of those are cheap because they don't have a DRAM cache.

Try Snappy Driver Installer Origin

SDIO

Download link

When you first launch the app, choose "Download Indexes only"

Do you see any driver for your sound card ?

If so, check the box and install it / them.

(I do not recommend installing graphic drivers through SDIO)

maybe you'd like to try Eagle? https://en.eagle.cool/

it's a desktop-based file management tool that provides tagging and annotations for different kind of formats including (svg/jpg/mp3/mp4/design files/office files...etc)

You can tag and categorize assets across different dimensions very easily (e.g., by platform, by subject, by style, by shape, by color, by rating, by dates... etc.), and can easily create custom queries, smart folders, auto-import and even use your tag label to create a custom folder (e.g. one files with two different tags can appear in different tag folders without duplicating and taking two spaces, which is extremely thoughtful)

it also help you identify duplicate files too

anyway, I've found it to be very useful in managing my personal and work workflows and optimizing my project process. also, beautiful interface is a plus too

hope its not too late to help

You're using Windows don't make life so difficult, install PotPlayer. It's free and it's excellent (it plays all formats... No conversion required)

http://potplayer.daum.net/

If the video you are trying to play is x265, you will probably need to intall LavFilters

https://cyberraiden.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/using-external-lav-filters-with-potplayer-1-7/

Are you sure it's gone or just not displaying.

Assuming it's an MP3 collection check the files with Tag Scanner

https://www.xdlab.ru/en/

Personally I hate groove music, I use AIMP is my music player (like the old WinAmp but better)

https://www.aimp.ru

I've used 2 different approaches for this..

If you want a copy of the actual error from the log it's a bit complicated you need a script that pulls up the last error of that type and write it to a file, then emails it to you... I've done it but it's not pretty.

However if you want a notification on your phone for example you can do that with pushbullet. Install pushbullet on your phone or computer.

Go here to login to your account and create an access token.

https://www.pushbullet.com/#settings/account

You would then use Task Scheduler to trigger an action when that event occurs, and have it run a script like this...

In this example curl.exe is in my c:\scripts folder (you should be able to find a copy of curl.exe in one of the Windows folders I think)

The part with o.xxxxx replace that with your access token that you generated, replace the title and message text

c:\scripts\curl.exe -s -o nul -u o.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes -d type=note -d title="title text here" -d body="message text here"

I believe that the free version of Push Bullet allows for upto 500 push notifications per month.

Thanks for your reply. This sounds like it definitely could be the right answer. Unfortunately I can't check, as I needed a quick fix yesterday, so I copied the entire folder structure (rooted at SFZ) using xcopy in powershell (with /s and /e options iirc), then deleted the original and renamed the new. I then checked file renaming in explorer & powershell and it was working.

According to the xcopy docs, "By default, xcopy does not copy hidden or system files" and By default, xcopy removes the read-only attribute.". So this would explain why my xcopy quick fix worked if it did not copy desktop.ini to the new location.

If it happens again, I will definitely look for desktop.ini and ready-only attributes. The folders were created by extracting from zip files to various locations, so I might try and replicate the problem too.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/xcopy

You could try Clonezilla . There is a bootable USB. I cloned my workstation onto a bigger disk, didn’t have any issues but I’m admin. Be aware that your company may pickup on hardware changes (unlikely and when the device is back at work) and you may get in trouble for have a copy of work data.

If you want to clone your PC, probably easiest way to reduce your existing hard drive to same size as the new one. So from 1TB to 512GB, then clone old HDD and re-image new SSD with Clonezilla or similar app.

Restart your computer with new SSD as primary, if everything works format your old HDD for cold storage (Images, videos, etc) and keep your SSD for apps & games only as it will run faster.

Worst case, you can always use Microsoft’s media creation tool to reinstall Windows 10 as licensing comes hardcoded in bios. If its legit key and you have upgraded from another version of Windows previously, you can use PowerShell to retrieve your existing key.

Clonezilla https://clonezilla.org/show-live-doc-content.php?topic=clonezilla-live/doc/01_Save_disk_image

CMD or PowerShell https://www.thewindowsclub.com/find-windows-product-key

Correct. A splitter will only produce a mirrored display.

One separate signal per PC port.

Are you sure you do not have a DP or mini display port?

What make & model is your laptop?

Example for 3 extended displays:

HDMI to HDMI to 2nd display hook up

and

Mini DP to HDMI using active adapter for 3rd display hook up.

https://www.amazon.com/iVanky-Active-DisplayPort-Thunderbolt-Adapter/dp/B089GF8M87

Don't know whether this is relevant or not, but:

- I use NordVPN on my days off to watch some Japanese Netflix

- When I go onto YouTube, it makes my situation much worse

I'll try to think of other things that may or may not be relevant.