On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM Michel Verdier wrote: > > A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ and his computer has problems. I > have no access to his system. > > Do you know a way to check his hardware, programs such as clamav, > smartmontools or memtest, either running on w$ or from a live system?
Take a look at https://www.passmark.com/ I couldn't find a link from the front page but https://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup/ gets you to the smartmontool like thing and https://www.memtest86.com/ is the boot from a USB drive to test memory program > But it has to be fully automated or with a simple ui. For example running > clamav from shell commands is beyond his power. diskcheckup is a _very_ simple point & click UI I haven't used memtest is years.. but I remember it being easy enough to fire off every test and come back hours later to see the results. clamav is an anti-virus - yes? Microsoft has their own anti-virus thing. Try Start / Windows Security Virus & threat protection which has a Quick Scan button and a 'Scan options' link where you can tell it to do a full scan -- that warns that it could take more than an hour. I have a vague memory of doing a full scan once & it taking way more than an hour :( Regards Lee
