geomontgo77

Hey, thanks for asking! It's actually running pretty well now... I havn't run the chkdsk yet. I'm skeptical it's "fixed", but at least I can use it now. Thanks for all your help!!

That's sort of what I thought after eveything I've done. I'll try the chkdsk later on. Is this just another way to verify the disk is dying? Thanks!

It actually worked long enough for me to run the scan and even type this!! Here's the reports: Addition.txt FRST.txt

It's done this before, many times. Well, I just can't seem to get the thing to boot up to even get to run this FRST. It'll boot into Windows like 1 out of 5 attempts and when it finally does it either gives me the endless blue spinning circle thing, or freezes up. FWIW - I have nothing hooked up to it. I've done so many things in the CMD and stuff that I guess I really hosed things up! I'm at a loss. Is it time to put this machine to rest forever or is there any hope? Thanks!!

Thank you! Can't seem to get it going, now this: (see attached picture). I guess it'll be a while!😬

A guy from youtube (Reversed Videos) recommended I post here about a problem I've been having with my Asus laptop running Windows 10 Home Version 20H2. I am admittedly neglectful with keeping up to date and running any anti virus stuff or what have you with this thing. It's probably 5 years old and has seen heavy use and abuse. I've had the occasional hickups and freezes during it's life where I would have to use the power button to get it to work again, however it happened late last week for the last time and now I have had no luck getting it to work for more than 5 minutes w/out freezing up constantly. At first it would do a loop of "Diagnosing your PC" and then attempting to repair but would never get past the repair attempts where you could instead go to "Advanced Options", etc. I would constantly have to power button down and try again. Even if I did get past that it would never really improve anything. I've fixed problems in the past with youtube video help, so I tried a whole bunch of things by many different people. Nothing seemed to help. I came across "How to Remove Viruses From Your Computer" by Reversed Videos and it seemed like it was worth a try. I started it in the evening and it ran and ran and ran for hours. It got late so I went to bed. When I looked at it in the morning it seemed to be stuck (no big surprise there!). It never even got the the malwarebytes part where he said you'd have to click a button to get it going. Let it go for over 48 hours just in case and it never did anything more. Power-buttoned-down again and upon restart it asked me to scan the disk (again), but I cancelled. I've run scannow with a report of no issues, run dism/onlike/cleanup-image/restorehealth and it successfully ran with no reported issues. when I tried chkdsk it wouldn't let me and/or wasn't able to complete due to something I forget now what it said. Now it keeps doing "windows updates", takes forever to boot up, and when I finally can get it going it freezes about 5-10 minutes into using it. I'm in way over my head at this point. I have everything on it backed up, so losing data is of no concern. Reversed Videos recommended I run a scan with FRST. I am trying to get the machine to cooperate and if/when I do I will post the folders here... Thanks!