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More PC issues
Apr. 5th, 2023 04:14 pmEverything was fine last night...and then when I came home from work today, the VPN app was taking up 98% CPU for no reason at all (and this happened the other day as well). I got the Task Manager to end that, but when I tried to restart the PC the Start button refused to respond. Just a few of multiple weird things that have been happening over the past couple of weeks.
SO. Right now I'm copying important things from the C and D drives to externals and once that's done, I'm going to do a complete factory reset. (I haven't done it with this PC yet, which says a lot about how good it's been. I'm pretty sure I did at least three or four resets for my older PCs back in the day.)
On the one hand it's annoying because I'm spending all this time fiddling with the tech when I could be working on creative stuff. On the other hand, this is definitely showing how much I have on the PC itself that I probably could or should move elsewhere, either out of safety or privacy. It took a few hours to move everything, but it's safe on an external now (and I'm disconnecting everything as we speak), so hopefully I'll have this up and running again by this evening. If not, I have tomorrow off so I can always finish it up then!
SO. Right now I'm copying important things from the C and D drives to externals and once that's done, I'm going to do a complete factory reset. (I haven't done it with this PC yet, which says a lot about how good it's been. I'm pretty sure I did at least three or four resets for my older PCs back in the day.)
On the one hand it's annoying because I'm spending all this time fiddling with the tech when I could be working on creative stuff. On the other hand, this is definitely showing how much I have on the PC itself that I probably could or should move elsewhere, either out of safety or privacy. It took a few hours to move everything, but it's safe on an external now (and I'm disconnecting everything as we speak), so hopefully I'll have this up and running again by this evening. If not, I have tomorrow off so I can always finish it up then!
