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More funny stuff: http://imgur.com/gallery/va6oD

- Question: Does any who is reading this have experience with the free Mail app in Win 8 & Win 10 ? - I ask because I came across some info that suggests that these apps are still a "bit buggy". And to be frank, I am not surprised because those apps are free and that could be reason why MS doesn't provide too much support for these apps. Whereas e.g. Outlook is not a free program and that's IMO a GOOD reason why MS DOES provide much better support and updates. I experienced the same with the Windows LIve Mail 2012 program. I.e free but still a bit buggy (See the 1st post in this thread)

- Ooooops. Made a mistake. First MS disabled synchronization between Outlook.com & WLM (mid 2016 ??). And then MS dropped support for WLM (january 2017) but Outlook.com still works. - But I wouldn't be surprised to see that MS also will drop Outlook.com somewhere in the future. See what MS did with Hotmail.com.

- OMG. Never used Outlook and not being able to export emails in *.eml format is an extra hurdle to start using the program. Seems MS wants to keep users trapped in Outlook. - But MS also ditched Outlook.com.

- All email programs are able to export emails in *.eml format. And then import them in WLM. - Although I would ditch WLM (because it's no longer supported/updated) and switch to something else. My current favourite is Outlook Express Classic. https://www.oeclassic.com/

- Perhaps you've allocated too little diskspace for those System Restore Points (SRP). Then Windows will run out of diskspace very soon and starts to delete those SRPs. Or Windows won't create any SRPs at all. Then you need to allocate (much) more diskspace for SRPs. - Or the amount of free diskspace is too low or went under a critical limit. That will force Windows to remove all those SRPs as well. - Perhaps you need to select a different option for those SRPs ?

- What was the size of the files before cleaning ? - Perhaps those files are/were "locked" ? Can you clean them after a restart of your system ?

- That seems to suggest that the HD is OK but that something "interferes" with the "seek time" of the HD. And that COULD be power related. Perhaps the power in your house has regular socalled "Brown outs". Time to seek some professional advice, IMO.

- I don't know for sure. I would ask for some professional advice.

- The value of SMART attribute 07 ("Seek Error Rate") of the Toshiba HD is way too high and causing that error. (red line in the picture). - Since SMART attribute 03 ("Spin Up time") is also "elevated" (for both drives) and all other attributes are OK, I start to think that your HDs (and your system) don't get enough power upon start up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

- Just imagine that your IoT fridge starts to display advertisements or - even worse - starts to play advertisement jingles (audio). Brrrrr .......

@Pachi: Run Piriform's SPECCY. Select File > Publish snapshot and post the link that pops up inyour next reply.

- Computer users who have migrated to a newer Windows version (sometimes) find out that their old scanner driver software doesn't work anymore. But there's a program that can make that old scanner work again. VueScan (v9.5) https://www.hamrick.com/download.html

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/smart-tvs-smart-fridges-smart-washing-machines-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

- "Dynamic Entertaining Experience" ??? - Now hackers can create an even larger botnet. - I can imagine that hackers are able to pull up "interesting" patterns. Like when people are not at home. That's what burglars really like to know. OMG.

- Some files are re-created automatically after being removed.

- I doubt that will persuade people to switch from other browsers to Edge.

- Ccleaner already has advanced to version v5.25. http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

- Yes, in Win 8 & Win 10 the OS automatically reduces the size of the registry after 30 days. I have no experience with it because I am still using Win 7. https://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/clean-up-the-winsxs-folder But do those commands also reduce the size of registry ? The article doesn't mention the registry at all. Does anyone have more info on that ? Also interesting is this link: https://msdn.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/hardware/commercialize/manufacture/desktop/determine-the-actual-size-of-the-winsxs-folder

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http://oe-classic.findmysoft.com/ http://windowsreport.com/thunderbird-vs-oe-classic/

- Used the "Disk Clean Up" tool today and it shrank the infamous "Winsxs" (sub-)folder by over 800 Mb. - After using "MRU Blaster" (https://www.brightfort.com/mrudownload.html) and then "Eusing's Registry Defrag" (http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_defrag/registry_defrag.htm) the total size of all registry hives shrank by some 20 Mb (from about 143 Mb down to about 122 Mb). Not too bad. - The size of the "Winsxs" (sub-)folders is still a staggering 9,3 GB. Ouch.

- I agree with MTA: "Needle in a haystack".

- Install PcWinTech's CLEANMEM. And switch off everything (!!!). But let the program show the system tray icon that shows the % of used memory. I could imagine that when the PC locks up the % goes "through the roof" (for a short while). - Some folks re-install their OS system every one or two years. Excellent way to remove A LOT OF clutter. But I am not sure whether or not MS still offers all the updates for XP.

- If your HD had any (serious) problems then GSmartControl would have shown one of those (SMART attribute) lines in pink/red. Then there's no need to dig up info on what safe values are. Hence my recommendation to use the program. See this info: http://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.net/home/index.php/Screenshots @The developers of Defraggler: Nice suggestion for what can be added in a/the next version of Defraggler.