Machine now boots in under a minute with no twiddling of bytes. Guess it was timing out trying to find the end of the txt file to write to.

Well after running chkdsk and it finding a corrupt file \windows\tasks\schedlgu.txt I went into puppy linux and renamed it and tis all GOOD!

Guide to Using Check Disk in Windows Vista – How-To Geek: Guide to Using Check Disk in Windows Vista – How-To Geek…

So gonna fix another cup of coffee and hope for more energy this afternoon.

Something in the order of 4327 things that need doing and I haven’t got the energy to get to any of them.