Hardware & Technical Question! Odd PC Behaviour

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

I recently bought some thermally conductive double-sided tape in a local PC shop. It's quite cheap, though mine is metallic, which means it also conducts electricity so one must be careful with the size so it doesn't touch nearby surface-mounted components.

Might have to Google that stuff. Could be the cause of my random freezes if the SB is overheating. And I'd rather it didn't drop off anyway. Lol

Incidentally, my PC was absolutely fine today. Showing 8Gb ram, and ran perfectly smoothly.

Although constant Windows updates are slowly eating my SSD space... Might have to move ED back to my HDD when 3.3 goes live... Lol

 

[EUS]

Whenever that's occurred to me, it has always been a fault of the OS drive not being recognized for whatever reason from; a bad setting in BIOS, a dead mobo battery resetting the BIOS (which messes up the BIOS settings), a dead cable, a dead SATA channel, or a dead drive.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Although constant Windows updates are slowly eating my SSD space... Might have to move ED back to my HDD when 3.3 goes live... Lol

Have you done a Disk Cleanup, with Cleanup System Files enabled, on your C: drive?

Also, I'd suggest CCleaner (free version, watch out you don't accidentally install Avast) for other temp file removal and registry clean-up.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Have you done a Disk Cleanup, with Cleanup System Files enabled, on your C: drive?

Also, I'd suggest CCleaner (free version, watch out you don't accidentally install Avast) for other temp file removal and registry clean-up.

I did... Lol

Windows just keeps growing...

Admittedly it's a tiny SSD. I think some other large applications are on there too.

I'll run CCleaner next time I'm on it, haven't done one in a while.

 

[Shadowdancer]

Also, I'd suggest CCleaner (free version, watch out you don't accidentally install Avast) for other temp file removal and registry clean-up.

Registry size hasn't been an issue for a long time, and I'd rather not have 3rd party tools randomly fudge with it. Inconsistent hives are endless fun, especially when tools decide to go full Sandler and touch stuff outside HKCU. (To limit damage, never run anything touching the registry with admin rights, that way at least it won't break the entire system but only your user profile.)

 

[Robert Maynard]

Registry size hasn't been an issue for a long time, and I'd rather not have 3rd party tools randomly fudge with it. Inconsistent hives are endless fun, especially when tools decide to go full Sandler and touch stuff outside HKCU. (To limit damage, never run anything touching the registry with admin rights, that way at least it won't break the entire system but only your user profile.)

In my experience of using CCleaner, it has never, to my knowledge, damaged the registry. YMMV.

 

[Shadowdancer]

In my experience of using CCleaner, it has never, to my knowledge, damaged the registry. YMMV.

That "registry cleaner industry" comes from the good old time of Windows 9x when the registry wasn't so much of a database as an ever-growing Legion of data that got slower to access as it grew, but it hasn't been an issue with NT/2k and later versions. In the last ten or fifteen years I haven't run into a problem that got better after trying to "fix" anything in the registry, but repeatedly had tools or manual stupidity (damn is there an ever-growing mountain of stupid "fixes" on the web) make things worse

You get the occasional piece of software that stores broken settings, but system-level components seem by and large relatively competent at cleaning up after themselves or at least coping with previous versions' mistakes.