Ok, good luck
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Ok, good luck
- CPU, MB and memory must be a matched trio. You need to buy new of them. Maybe it also requires a new PSU
- You could use the current SSD with Windows but there are things you have to adapt. New...
You should clean the drive and then format
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the USB drive number)
select disk n (replace n by...
Thanks for the hardware specs.
Could you please post the results of diskpart?
The boot options are different on a Legacy-MBR and UEFI-GPT.
We need to know what you have (hardware specs).
You probably had a non default BIOS configuration that was lost due to the battery...
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Is Win 10 on a HDD or SSD?
Monitors only enter sleep mode if the graphics card does.
Check power settings
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options and select a power plan and select change plan settings.
Select...
Is mouse and keyboard connected to a USB3.x?
If it is, connect to a USB2.0
You had this problem six months ago. I suppose it was working and you did something to the system to get into this situation.
Do you remember what you did?
I use Teamviwer.
I know you can install as unattended (I personally never used) so you can access the remote computer.
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You don't need pro to remote connect
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No- MS ceased the free upgrade from Win 7 and Win 8 to Win 10
You don't need a key to install Win 10 on a computer that once had Win 10 or Win 11 activated on it (as long as you install same version (home or pro)).
Once Win 10 is activate on a computer it gets...
Use the money to buy a SSD and do a clean install. You will see a huge difference.
SATA SSDs
The Dell 760 SFF has 2G of DDR2 memory and a Core 2Duo CPU. I don't think it worth spending money on more DDR2 memory.
Win 10 64 minimum memory is 2G. If you use some for the graphics it will work...
The computer originally came with Win Vista. Make sure it has Win 10 32 bits and not 64 bits.
- If it does have Win 10 32 bits, backup all personal data and do a Remove everything reset
- If it...
I also used MiniTool successfully, using an old version 9.1 of Partition Wizard Free
In my opinion, with a SSD, fast startup is more part of problem than part of a solution.
Fast startup use a mix of normal boot and hibernation.
Leave it disabled
- Do a disk check
Most occasions a very slow boot is due to a problematic HDD
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to...
You don't need to clean the drive and create partitions. The installation does it for you.
I suggest you build the USB Win 11 23h2 installation drive using MCT
Windows can be installed in two...
A System image (drive image) is a kind of a zip file of your entire drive (all partitions) and it is saved on another drive (normally an external drive). It is used as a backup in case a disaster...
Playing with partitions is a risky task,
- Make a full disk backup and save the bitlocker key somewhere you can retrieve it if necessary.
- Boot from the drive image program and test the backup.
As it is a used computer you don't know what was installed with the previous owner. It can have a malware, a spyware or only a lot of garbage.
I would do a full Reset or even better, a Clean...
I would say that, as the SSD is a clone of the HDD, Onedrive won't even notice the change.
I agree with SIW2. A SSD will make it much faster.
For now I suggest you do a disk check on your drives.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use...
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