"Hey Sinchen, I got new laptop. Old one is sloooooow." (new laptop is brand new machine, but older model, dirt cheap -- good deal)
"Please setup the new laptop and migrate our data."
1: *Turns on new laptop*
Outdated Windows 10 Professional starts. Microsoft account already set up. Why an MS account? *Sigh* Okay. Not my machine. Start update to latest Windows 10 and go to bed.
Next day: Remove bloatware, bloatware and more BLOATWARE. Deactivate garbage functions. Deactivate telemetry. Deactivate... I could scream with all that crap! Fighting Hydra. Two useless apps keep popping up for each one removed.
Finally the debloating scripts won, the Bloat-Hydra lies dead in front of me leaving a usable Windows 10 (I miss XP). Just some essential programs. 7-zip, VLC, notepad++,... The normal procedure. Will do that at the end.
2: *Turns on old laptop* It takes ages to boot. Taskmanager shows 90% CPU (by some thing named "data collection") and 100% HDD usage (by... nothing). Trying to even get the amount of files inside C:\Users\<name> took several minutes. 70GB in roughly 70000 files (including the complete "appdata" folders of course). Trying to copy the stuff to SD made the system freeze repeatedly. I killed all background processes, removed various autostarts: No chance. It won't copy. If the copy starts it is 10kb/s and freezes a minute later.
Screwdriver to the rescue: Take HDD, put it in external USB/SATA case and connect it to the new laptop. An eternity of chkdsk later the copy finally starts... at the pace of a snail, slowly getting better. CrystalDiskInfo (SMART) says the HDD is fine. I have my doubts (and have my doubts about any existing backups). The HDD sometimes stops for no apparent reason (but has zero re-allocation count).
I bet the old laptop would run fine with a new SSD and a fresh Windows installation without a million fishy background services. Or just a Linux instead!
I'm so insecure when working with current Windows versions -- knowing nothing about them. Not even if an update to Windows 11 (never even seen it yet) would make sense on the new laptop.
"Please setup the new laptop and migrate our data."
1: *Turns on new laptop*
Outdated Windows 10 Professional starts. Microsoft account already set up. Why an MS account? *Sigh* Okay. Not my machine. Start update to latest Windows 10 and go to bed.
Next day: Remove bloatware, bloatware and more BLOATWARE. Deactivate garbage functions. Deactivate telemetry. Deactivate... I could scream with all that crap! Fighting Hydra. Two useless apps keep popping up for each one removed.
Finally the debloating scripts won, the Bloat-Hydra lies dead in front of me leaving a usable Windows 10 (I miss XP). Just some essential programs. 7-zip, VLC, notepad++,... The normal procedure. Will do that at the end.
2: *Turns on old laptop* It takes ages to boot. Taskmanager shows 90% CPU (by some thing named "data collection") and 100% HDD usage (by... nothing). Trying to even get the amount of files inside C:\Users\<name> took several minutes. 70GB in roughly 70000 files (including the complete "appdata" folders of course). Trying to copy the stuff to SD made the system freeze repeatedly. I killed all background processes, removed various autostarts: No chance. It won't copy. If the copy starts it is 10kb/s and freezes a minute later.
Screwdriver to the rescue: Take HDD, put it in external USB/SATA case and connect it to the new laptop. An eternity of chkdsk later the copy finally starts... at the pace of a snail, slowly getting better. CrystalDiskInfo (SMART) says the HDD is fine. I have my doubts (and have my doubts about any existing backups). The HDD sometimes stops for no apparent reason (but has zero re-allocation count).
I bet the old laptop would run fine with a new SSD and a fresh Windows installation without a million fishy background services. Or just a Linux instead!
I'm so insecure when working with current Windows versions -- knowing nothing about them. Not even if an update to Windows 11 (never even seen it yet) would make sense on the new laptop.
