Having worked on the front end of computers for many years, I'm still a novice. That being said, I've been able to fix a few problems myself for the most part without any outside assistance. Try as I may, I am unable to find a solution online that gives me step by step solutions to the problems listed above. It's frustrating and even though I've tried to wander through the online mazes of 'help' I'm unable to get to a place where I can actually perform the 'fixes' myself.
The Event Viewer is showing more than 10,000 errors, warnings, et al. How do I repair or fix these things myself? Can it be done? I've spent the better part of today searching online for possible fixes for the many problems I've got going on but I can't get to one place on the web where that help is easily available.
What will help me the most is to have a 'cheat sheet' that details a step by step, no steps skipped, idiot-proof solution of accessing help for problems like the above with a possible solution to 'self' fix problems. Each and every solution that I've encountered has been fraught either with 'geek' language that I don't always understand, or an assumption by the person answering a question that assumes the reader knows exactly what's being said. Not so!
I've had other problems. I have three external hard drives that I use for retrieving and storing files that I use on a regular basis. This morning I received a notification that updates were available for one of my drives. After clicking on the box to start the updates, nothing happened. (Clearly, either I'm doing something to hex this machine and its components, or there's some issue with this CPU.)
I have 75G on this computer, of which I'm now supposedly using about 75%. From what I undersatnd, the optimum performance and speed is achieved when using about one third to one half of the memory. But, after opening up the C drive, I don't see folders
or files that may be sucking up more of the memory than it should. Using my external drives (approximately 5TB total, I can't understand why my C drive is showing that much memory usage.
Does Windows 10 have a repair function? Any help, assistance, guidance, comments, that can get me to where my computer is functioning well will be gratefully received and accepted.
Until then, I remain a prisoner of the idiosyncracies of today's technology (or my own ignorance of same).