Best Way to Repair Windows 7

[Raizinman]

A friend has a Windows 7 computer with MS Office 13 that has been running flawlessly for many many years. After the teenage son started using it on his break, the computer has been running flakey. Some apps won't run, things run slower, IE freezes, and some Windows programs just won't run at all. I did the Malware/Spyware/Antivirus treatment and found minimal to nothing. I then ran PC Mechanic and Gleary Utilities and straightened things up that way. There are no memory hogs or spam running in the background. Because of the customers numerous installed programs, I'm trying to avoid having to reinstall Windows 7. Restore points for when the computer was working great are all long gone. Here is my question:

Is there a repair program (perhaps within Windows 7) or some other software that can do a better job at fixing this computer? Any thoughts? Can I put in the original Windows 7 disk and is there a repair function on that? It's been a while since I played with Windows 7.

 

[Ketchup]

Ctrl+Alt+Del is your friend. Look at available memory and CPU usage when things are flaky. Use Google on running apps you don't recognize. Do the same for programs running at startup.

What programs did you try for Malware scans?

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Ctrl+Alt+Del is your friend. Look at available memory and CPU usage when things are flaky. Use Google on running apps you don't recognize. Do the same for programs running at startup.

What programs did you try for Malware scans?

If this happened within the last 14 days, the symptoms seem to overlap some that I experience on two different twin computer systems that had been running flawlessly for good parts of a year. That is -- the October Windows Updates borked my system.

I fixed it because my server takes nightly backups and stores them going back a year. And if anyone has reason to commiserate, I can explain in detail how I put things straight. The server backups wouldn't be much different than what you get with the local Win 7 backukp program.

The reason I came to this thread -- and y'know I been postin' maybe a dozen times or more on this forum in the last couple weeks -- I did a web-search seeking the same sort of an answer. After everything has settled back nice and tidy on the Sandy Bridge Twins, I keep looking for any slight problem to trace it's cause. I look for certain things.

If someone is selling a utility in addition to MS Install Disc "Windows Repair," I want to look at the possibility that it could simply reveal something or otherwise relieve me of my apprehension after this last batch of updates.

Sorry to take your time . . .

 

[Raizinman]

Ctrl+Alt+Del is your friend. Look at available memory and CPU usage when things are flaky. Use Google on running apps you don't recognize. Do the same for programs running at startup.

What programs did you try for Malware scans?

Malwarebytes and Hitman and for Antivirus McAfee.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

My own problem is solved, but it had conjunctive multiple causes. The Updates and Kaspersky with an AVP16 service. I uninstalled from this PC my 5-PC license and installed MSE, although reinstalling KIS would fix it.

He might also want to check and troubleshoot red-bang and yellow-bang messages in his Event Logs, if he has an idea which of them are benign.

 

[Ketchup]

Try a program called SuperAntispyware. If there is something stll there, it will find it.

 

[PliotronX]

Run a chkdsk /r and sfc /scannow. Windows 7 kind if changed the repair process whereas with XP you just boot off the disc and hit R when prompted; you have to choose the upgrade option when booting off the same edition 7 disc. If this option is missing or errors out on you, reformat and install fresh.

 

[JackMDS]

This -

Run a chkdsk /r and sfc /scannow..

And this - http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/adwcleaner.html