windows-ops Helps with Slow boot on a Windows machine that used to be fast — bloat accumulation across the five startup mechanisms (registry Run keys, services, scheduled tasks, startup folders, group policy). The same machine still boots fast once those are inventoried and trimmed. Failing drives that nobody's spotted yet. The signal lives in System log Events / / / (disk bad block, paging error, retry, hardware error) and Event ("Reset to device, \Device\RaidPortN, was issued"). Healthy drives produce zero of these — hundreds in a month means active failure even when SMART still claims "Hea…