So, this is the story: A few days ago i came home, wanted to do some computer thingies so i hit the start button on my self built computer. Woe and behold, afther only a few minutes the dreaded blue screen stared menacingly back to me. I, not one to be daunted by such an unwelcome colourchange, restarted my computer. But the naughty sky coloured creature was back. So I did what every man must do, and started my quest for solutions. A lookup on the great internets gave me the solution: my registery (the SOFTWARE-file) was lost beyond all hope. Faced with such an obstacle, I dug out my trusty Vista-dvd and descended into the bare underbelly of my installation, aided by the unhelpful but useful recovery mode. After having slain and removed the SOFTWARE-registery file and replaced it with a jolly old backup, I thought the fight was finished (and i could go back to finish the fight, yes I play old games). Nothing could be further from the truth, except for flying narcoleptic hippo's: The blue evil does not roar it's head anymore, so much is true, and the desktop is reached. The difference between now and the good old times is that that now, the process takes about half an hour. (slightly less, +-28 minutes, repeatable). Once on the desktop, my computer acts as drunk, being lazy and slow, taking tens of seconds only to serve me my start menu... only when I leave him another half an hour, he becomes obedient and efficient. Against this time consuming monster, my compu-fu is not good enough. Does any of you compu-san have a suggestion? TL : DR pc blue screened, corrupt SOFTWARE file, replaced it, works but computer deadly slow, any ideas?
I tend to think it is not, as it was dying but I replaced it with a new one and cloned the old one. Also the SMART status is OK... Whats my next step?
because I bought the license so many years ago, when it was all shiny and new and so much better than the other binary squirrels in the OS-tree. Then, my brother wanted something to game on at home, so I put together a frankenputer (it runs on a E8400, 3.16Ghz, 4Gig RAM, asus HD4850 and a cheap motherboard (MSI, probably, don't remember)). Once assembled, the poor thing deserved an operating system. The choice between the few heavyweight squirrels (linux/Ubuntu, Windows and MacOS) was quickly made, as my brother wanted something to game on. And we all know that Windows is the most playful squirrel of all. And, however nice he is, he is not the cheapest squirrel in the world. So, in the spirit of the frankenputer-idea, I upgraded my own desktop to Win7 (viva MSDNAA) and used the Vista-squirrel on the frankenputer. He's called Tintinic², by the way. And so Tintinic² was born and thrived and played and made homework en provided gentlemen's diversion until now... also:narcoleptic hippo
So if I'm reading this right, you copied the SOFTWARE hive from one of the restore point folders in the System Volume information folder? If so, did you copy all the other hive files as well? (DEFAULT, SYSTEM, SAM, SECURITY) If not, there may be a disparity in the hives which is causing the slowdown. I would suggest doing a backup of your files/folders, then performing a full system restore from the resore point you pulled the Software Hive from. If that still doesn't work, Clean install will be your only answer.
