Hi
Sorry didn't get to you sooner, farming is very demanding, especially the unexpected. This is what I did today between personal daily priorities.
I don't recall what icon shows up for busy and working in background, but the ones I have for those two is a "dog w/wagging tail" and the other is a "white arrow with a stationery hour" glass next to it which is windows default.
Also when I say # of syllable noise it is how many times that noise makes consistantly. Here goes.
Installed Windows Updates, restarted computer (to take effect), at start-up, logged in (fast), noise shortly after log-in, got to desktop, not all things loaded in Notificaiton area, move my mouse down to Task Bar and "dog w/wagging tail" - curser showed up. Manually shut down.
Restarted a second time, again quickly typed in my password, desktop came on, refreshed, 2 syllable noise (always comes from modem), started loading icons in Notification area I thought it was good to go and I double clicked on the "All In One" and curser then was dog w/wagging tail mode and stuck. Manual shut down.
Restarted a third time, quickly typed password, desktop w/icons came up, refreshed, 2 syllable noise and stopped loading. No access to Task Manager using the keyboard short cut keys, no icons came up in the Notification area, and then clicked on Start button, that came up with only 2/3 of the information in it. Manually shut it down.
Restarted again fourth time, everything the same as before, brought up Task Manager, as I do this because when I click on the "Users" tab it will show the users, and in most cases including this one, it shows a blank window with nobody in it. So I know nothing else is going to happen and shut it down. So I shut it down.
Restarted a fifth time, everything same as before, but froze right after desktop refreshed. Couldn't even pull up Task Manager. Manually shut down.
Boy my curser can't even keep up with my typing.
The sixth thru seventeeen time to summarize what takes place:
- For log-in: If I type my password quickly (which I part way through the password, Windows hesitates and then
finishes out the password), I can get into the desktop, refreshes and shortly thereafter I get a 1 or 2 syllable noise,
and everything stops or freezes or continues to one of the other happenings listed below.
If I type my password slow or at a steady pace I can't get into the desktop at all.
-Desktop: Always loads icons and refreshes (reloads icons again), a fraction of a percent of the times it won't
refresh.
Task Bar:Whether we are talking the whole Task bar (Start button, Notification area and in between those two) or
in part (Start button), (Notification area), and in between those two points, it works to a certain point then freezes. The
Start button doesn't ever work when pushing it, except twice on two separate occasions which I used to log off and
these windows popped up;
Ending Program: realplay.exe, Ending Program: ctfmon.exe, Ending Program: nsAppShell: Event Window and
Ending Program: explorer.exeIn turn all them ended stating they were not responding.
-Notification area: Either no icons will load with the exception of "Safely Remove Hardware" or only part of them; Avast,
Comodo (firewall), Safely Remove Hardware and Creative Diagnostics Agent. No monitors icon for internet or no
Windows update icon. Not sure if the audio icon was in there too. A couple of times when the computer freezes up the
"clock" actually stopped keeping time.
-Keyboard:Sometimes the computer recognizes it other times can not, meaning can't use keys to do anything.
-Task Manager:Sometimes I can access it by keyboard (Ctrl-shift-Esc.) and sometimes right clicking on Task bar.
I think that's pretty much it when I finally decided I'll see if I can get into Normal Mode, since installing updates, through "Last Known Good Configuration". It worked, so I ran All In One, the waiting for it to shut down computer when it was done, and waiting and waiting and waiting. Well then I thought I had to shut it down, I moved my mouse and it moved choppy and slowly kind of like dragging but not leaving tracks if you know what I mean. So I went over to the Start button which took at least a good minute to load all the items in there then I highlighted the log-off which took about 30 seconds before it highlighted so I decided to just click shutdown and after the minutes/seconds process for that to happen, from here I don't know how long it took because then the dog with the wagging tail came on. The tail alone took 3 seconds one way and 6 seconds the other way to wag. I had to count this manually because I notice then the computer clock stopped. So I just shut it down manually.
Restarted in Normal Mode first try, got to desktop and everything was loading slow but everything loaded. First thing I checked was Task Manager (came up quickly) tabs, user there in that tab and went to Process tab. I don't know if this has any bearing but since I'm here I'll throw it in.
Process tab: System Idle Process is at 16K with a 99 under CPU column,
1 Svchost, System is at 25,416K with a 00 under CPU column,
explorer.exe is at 19,196K with a 00 under CPU column, and
Avastsvc.exe is at 11,796K with a 00 under CPU column,
Now the rest of the 40 out of 44 processes are at 1,000K thru 8,000K memory usage with a 00 under CPU column.
I then connected to the Internet, opened up IE8 - which was slow and blocky when opening and then came here.
Oh before I forget, I will be going out of State tomorrow shortly after 12:00CST and won't be home till Sunday. I will have access to a compter while away, but just won't be able to access this one. I'm gearing myself up believing this computer has seen it's usage and taking your word that it may be a hardware issue, well let's just say that's where I'll be this weekend is getting something from my son to copy the folders and files I absolutely need off of this computer.
Oh yeah, just remembered when I was on my computer yesterday, I went into Program Files to look at a program I downloaded years ago (Opened "My Computer", C:/, Program Files, and went into the Folder MyHeritage) and was just looking when a lightbulb came on in my head thinking "Oh yeah, I meant to do this" and pushed the "Back " arrow at the top and it jumped back to the "My Computer" window, I then pushed the "Forward" arrow and it jumped to the Program Files folder with the "MyHeritage" folder still highlighted.
Anyhow here is the log you requested.
Thank you
P.S. When uploading files after clicking the Browse button and the window opens, I can not use any buttons on the left side of the window and I can only use the drop down arrow to navigate and have to click a couple of times on the file I want to upload.
