It's 64 bit and will try again... always gets to 99% and then stops.
Hundreds of failed attempts...
I spoke too soon above... it locked with Fire Fox too but start up is way faster with Fire Fox...
Now that you're sort of back...
Download that free version of CCleaner I mentioned and run it.
Then download the free version of Auslogics disk defragger and run it once, then a 2nd time but choose to optimize the drive.
Trust me, windows disk defragger is not very good at all and won't pack down your files and consolidate your contiguous space.
Even though your drive says its 60% free space, each one of those "free" sectors will have data in it.
Are you familiar with how Windows manages files?
If so, ignore.
If not, please read this overly simplistic analogy....
When you work on something, say your car collection file, you go to your file cabinet, fine your car collection folder, pull all the pages of the car collection file, and you work on it.
Lets say you work on it a bit in your office, a bit while you're making dinner, a bit while you're eating dinner, a bit while you're surfing TBN, and a bit while napping in front of the TV.
When you are done, you gather all the pages of the file, put them together, then put them back in the car collection folder, so you know exactly where it is when you're done.
Seems logical.
Windows isn't logical.
It takes your car file and it doesn't store it in your car files folder. It leaves pages scattered all over your hard drive. Some in the office, some in the kitchen, some in the dining room, some here, some there, etc.... and then it writes a list of all the places it left the pieces of your file and puts a pointer to that list in your car files folder!!!
The next time you want to work on your car file, windows has to go get that list, find all the pages of your car file that it left scattered all over your hard drive, assemble them, then let you work on it.
That's why, over time, all windows machines grind to a stinking halt!!!
THE ONLY REASON WINDOWS WORKS IS BECAUSE THE PROCESSOR SPEEDS HAVE COME UP SO HIGH THAT THEY CAN NOW COMPENSATE FOR THIS HORRIBLE OPERATING SYSTEM!!!
That's why you need to first, clean out all the crap (That's what the C in CCleaner stands for).
Then run Auslogics to optimize the drive. This assembles all of the pieces of the files that are scattered all over the hard drive, puts them right next to each other, and packs them to one end of the drive, freeing up all of your contiguous space.
Another thing that can and does happen with windows is that the swap file (the space where your computer puts things it can't put in memory while its working on them) gets fragmented.
When that happens, the machine becomes slower than dirt as well.
About the only way I know of degragmenting the swap file is to first eliminate it, reboot, and then create it again, but tell it to be a set size. Don't let windows automatically grow and shrink the swap file. But that's a subject for another discussion.
