Thanks again. I'm off to re-install.

I'll do the clean install. Can you suggest a good to tutorial for clean install for the novice?

Well, that makes sense. Thank you for the info. I just kept my old hdd, booted my old Win10 and now suffering the consequences. I guess I'll just bite the bullet and get it done; is there a tutorial?...

I just upgraded my computer including changing from an Asus M5A99FX motherboard to a Gigabyte x470 Aorus. My problem is that when I boot the computer it starts and runs windows for about 3 minutes...

Does the "DXSETUP.exe Bad Image" convey any clues? I have not seen any other information made available; where could I look?

As regards games on Steam: I go to my account games library, select a game to play, it starts the little (black) window shown in the center of the screen .. Performing first time .. etc Then it fails...

Just the one that I presented in my first post.

I ran the update and was told that I was current. As for having fewer items in my System32 folder, could the fact that I only recently (clean) installed my Win10 have a bearing on that. It was about...

I compared the directx folders for the games I have and saw a significant difference. The game that plays has 5 items 2 cab files and 3 non-cab files. The games that won't play all contain 157...

Ok. I did the same and got 3,948 items.

Just looked in properties and there are 15,866 files and 1175 folders.

I just looked and there are thousands; any way get a number w/o manually counting each one?

I have been trying to test it any other games would play. I find that Dragon Age Origin (1) could be installed off the original disk and played successfully ... no association with the Origin game...

I reran and resized Crystaldisc:
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Boy, that sure ran fast. Did I get what you were looking for? It says the health is good. Can you even read it?
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I went to website and saw (3) optional D/Ls, which one do you suggest: shizuku edition simple, full, or ultimate?

HDTune just finished. I ran 'error scan', 'benchmark scan', but saw no action to perform for 'health'. All screenshots attached:

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Updated bios and now running HD Tune.

Should I finish the other tests before updating or do it now?

The HDD is a WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 which Western Digital says runs at 7200rpn. However, Speccy reports it at 10000rpm???
Also, CHKDSK finished:
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Hey axe0 I'm running chkdsk now. If I remember correctly it should complete by next Tuesday.

SeaToolsDOS completed and passed.
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After 3 1/2 hrs I started fiddling and find that you have to select which test; short, long or audio. Short ran (~2 min) and passed. I'm going to do the 'long' now.

No need to run the test on your laptop. I'll give you an update after its run a few hours... hopefully it'll be done. It's been a little over 1 hour now.

Hi Axe0
I finally got SeaToolsDos running. Given a 1TB HDD how long should the test take? I know CHKDSK takes a very long time. Right now the elapsed timer reads 32 min. Funny thing: the elapsed...