Once the updates finished downloading and installing, I let the PC update as it was scheduled to do outside of active hours. I went to bed and when I checked the PC the next day, it was updated and...

Yes, I believe the slowness of the system is because of malware. I am running Super Anti-Spyware now and that will likely take more than 24 hours to run because of the sluggishness of the system. I...

Yes, I can now access the internet but it is very slow. It takes sometimes minutes after striking a key for the system to respond. I do not have a 3P firewall for protection. I will get all that I...

I will definitely have a scheduled weekly backup going forward. I have tried to activate using the trouble shooter but I get a message that says, "We can't activate Windows right now. Try again...

No, I have not made any changes to the pc at all and that is what is so weird. I had the blue screen just pop up out of no where maybe a week or a few days earlier -- prior to the start of the...

I just noticed that for some reason my laptop says that windows is not activated. How could my Windows have been deactivated? Could this be the source of the problem?

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I am creating a system image under control panel's backup and restore option. I wonder if I should create a system repair disc too once I have completed the backup? It sounds like you believe it is...

I was able to get hard disk sentinel on the laptop with an external drive. The overview says that the performance is 100% excellent but health is only 75% = Good. Power on time = 1,284 days, 23...

I used a flash drive but i need to change the boot options probably...

Ok. None of that is easy since I will need to acquire everything you have referenced. I do not have a caddy and I tried to boot from a .iso on a zip drive but the computer said invalid disk. Most...

I agree with house on shaky grounds analogy. So how do i get sentinel on the pc if I cannot access the internet to download it and my ports will not allow me to attach externally? Will I be able to...

No I have not checked my disk because I could not get anything to boot earlier. I created the thread from my tablet because I could not get my pc to launch any of my internet services. I was...

I believe the issue has nothing to do with the printer or print "spooler." In retrospect, the issue seems to have started with trying to print pdfs from adobe but I realize now it must be a virus...

Awesome information. Thank you very much.

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Out of the 750G there are 678G available for use and I have used 532G of that available space.

Thanks guys. I am actually leaning towards replacement and now I am trying to determine if HDD or SSD is the way to go especially since there are numerous refurbished HDD drives for $20 - $30. I...

OK. I will give that a try. The reason that I asked is I had a problem with it previously crashing and I was instructed to take it out and put it back in -- that actually worked to eliminate the...

So it is most likely not a connection issue with the motherboard is what I am getting from your assessment and not just a common BIOS error consistent with this type of laptop?

Here are the images that I took of the HD Sentinel log.

I am attaching the Sea Tools and HD Sentinel reports.

There was only 1 Error scan done in the HD Tunes. The reason there are 2 different images is because the second one is a speed map that measures the read performance across the drive -- at least...

I am not sure what happened during those 2 scans. As I was looking at the progress it was stuck on the 13% for so long that I just looked at it periodically. I was thinking that it could run...

I see the I/O failures as you mentioned. I decided to run the check disk now and started it about 20-30 minutes ago. I realize it will take some time but I wanted to make sure you saw that I ran the...

I downloaded the Macrium Reflect and it shows the 4 partitions -- one of them being the recovery partition as I mentioned.

Note: I googled this problem and went to this link and found this to be a...

I can do that if necessary but when I ran the Vaio Care Utility there were 4 partitions and the recovery/repair feature was an option. I did not select it since the system booted up normally. Also,...

OK. I will do that once the sea tools has completed its long generic test. It passed all of the shorter tests but to make sure I was running the long test. I will go into the BIOS and run whatever...