Malwarebytes Issues on HP laptop

One other thing you might consider is to off load all your storage to a remote drive. Have your main box loaded up with only what you absolutely have to have to make it run, and put all your production storage on a remote drive. Yes, it's another device on your desk, but with the current USB and other device connectivity speeds today it's almost seamless. THEN, if your storage fails (and it's backed up), all you have to do is replace your storage, and your main compute is still good to go. 'High speed / Low drag'.

In our world of multi-million dollar high-density compute systems there is literally zero data stored on our compute devices. All they do is compute. All the storage, even active, is vectored off to giant storage arrays which are mirrored in real-time (active-active). Now this may not seem applicable, but it actually is. The point is, you want to reduce the overhead on your CPU as much as possible, and push all the other overhead off onto your storage. This way you're not spinning cycles on figuring out where to put stuff at the same time as trying to crunch production processes. It's not quite that simplistic, but that's the best analogy I can equate.

Translated to English...get an external SSD or HDD.

Just something to consider.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That's the thing.
The laptop has very little on it.
It's mostly for surfing and email.
And less sensitive stuff.

Call us crazy, but we think the laptop is not quite as secure as the desktop.
We don't even do banking on it.

So, very little to no files on it.

But, you do present a very good idea!!!
Thanks FCD!!!

originally posted by: Gothmog

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: Gothmog

The laptop often runs at 100% of the Disk for several minutes.
Not everyday, maybe once a week or so,

Then with the updates, it runs at 100% for hours, even after the updates are completed/installed.
Seems to re reading and writing something.

Check to see if you have disk defragmenter (optimize disk) set to run weekly.

Well, well!!!
So far, checked the Dell desktop with SSD, it's already set to run weekly.

I know this is late, but I am adding one more post.
1) You don't know you have a problem UNTIL you run checkdisk.
2) There has never been ANY drive manufactured thaqt did not leave the factory WITHOUT bad sectors . (Good thing there is a "spare pool")
3) Bad sectors showing DOES NOT mean it is time to purchase a drive. An ever increasing amount of bad sectors does .
4) SSDs and mechanical drives have very little difference as far as "bad sectors" go . With SSds , it means that the drive has written too many times to that one portion of non-volatile ram .

Hope someone reads this and derives something from it .

Peace.

a reply to: Gothmog

Thanks, and much appreciated.
Because between guessing that computers WON'T be getting cheap for a very long time, if ever....and knowing we have at least ONE bad sector, we already did some preliminary shopping for a new laptop.

Do you have any comments on Defraggler, versus the installed M$ defrag?
On the desktop, it runs whenever it is on, it's on 24/7.
The laptop is on only a few hours a day. the defrag is an issue....takes FOREVER....longer than we have the machine on.

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: Gothmog

Thanks, and much appreciated.
Because between guessing that computers WON'T be getting cheap for a very long time, if ever....and knowing we have at least ONE bad sector, we already did some preliminary shopping for a new laptop.

Do you have any comments on Defraggler, versus the installed M$ defrag?
On the desktop, it runs whenever it is on, it's on 24/7.
The laptop is on only a few hours a day. the defrag is an issue....takes FOREVER....longer than we have the machine on.

Laptop drives are cheap .
Most laptop drives take < 10 minutes to replace . (me , about 2 minutes depending if one screw or 2 in the cover)
Don't panic until there is about 50 bad sectors and going up . (there is a spare pool .)
Also , checkdisk does a good job of remapping the bad sectors (until disk space gets low)
Never use a 3rd party defragmenter .
Set defrag for monthly .
Hope this helps .