by ngrayson » Aug 08 19 3:07 am
So, just to close the loop and finally ask a support question from you QBIK guys.
I was issued with a newer copy of the Ashampoo HDD software which resolved the license issues but since HDD2 is not officially windows 10 I removed it anyway. It made no difference to the booting. I now use free software to monitor the SMART data namely CrystalDiskInfo. I have also tried the Acronis software which is free and works OK.
The replacement HDD arrived so I used EASEUS backup to clone my original disk onto the new HDD and booted. Now, I have what I expected in terms of boot times but my mystery remains. Why did the disk change fix it given that it was a clone from a suspect disk?
I took the old disk and ran it on Gibsons Research Spinrite and did a check on it and it showed now issues. Confussed? Me to. The smarts only show 1 sector reallocation pending. Not withstanding that it was 7 years old and with a potential bad sector I do not feel I wasted my money as it was clearly aiming to let go in the near future.
I can only assume that there was some artifact created by the Windows upgrade which was resolved by the disk change. I will admit the new HDD has a bigger cache but not I suspect enough to make the massive difference it has from 10 minutes to settle booted and logged in down to 1m 15 Seconds.
So THE QUESTION now Adrean Et Al, One thing I noticed during all of this is that the Kaspersky Engine kicks in early on and does take some startup resource. So clearly its instantiated as Wingate starts and so what is it doing? Loading signatures? scanning wingate files? It does sit in memory and has the largest foot print in memory and the largest I/O requirement during boot.
BEST NEWS Underneath all of the woes I had one thing remains the case. Wingate was always working come hell or high water once it finally got there. So again I say well done guys overall well behaved software!!!!
The doctor tells me I will eventually get better once the bruising on my forehead subsides but I will need the tablets for life now.