Hi Mike,

 MP> Are there any tips or tricks one would suggest when looking over a
 MP> Windows machine when the owner (not you) thinks it is "running slow"?

I'd download a portable version of CCleaner and run it.  That is more than
likely a primary cause of the "slow" issue.  You wouldn't believe how much
crap I have to clean off of some of the systems at work sometimes...and even
my parents' W10 systems.

Something else you can do is check for defragging of the hard disk.  NTFS is
not as well-organized as say ext4 is or even JFS and it does need defragging
from time to time.

See how many programs are running in memory.

You might check out this link:
http://alternativeto.net/software/siw---syste...

I used to use SIW before the author started charging for it.

You might also want to pick up the SysInternals suite and put it on an USB
drive:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysintern...

Those tools are -excellent- and I have used them a lot over the years.  Not
so much anymore since my scope is extremely limited at work (most of the
time we just reimage) and at home, I'm running Linux...and my parents don't
do anything that would really stress out their computers too much.

I'd check available RAM too.

HTH,
Sean


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