Why Ww17?

Yes, I was trying to follow your directions, but I may have misunderstood. Part of what you said was:

• Close Process Monitor (I did this after changing the settings as you said to above this)

• Close any open programs and shut down your computer (I shut it down here)

• Reboot your computer and allow the boot up process to complete, including logging in if you use a password (I turned it back on)

• Wait 5 minutes before doing anything further (I waited 5 minutes)

• Right click on Process Monitor and select Run as administrator

And then I saved the file as the default name, but here's where it took 9+ hours to get to 48%, when I decided something may be wrong and my computer was freaking out, I canceled it and restarted my computer again here.

 

Sorry it's been so long, we went through another long stretch of no internet. Apparently I failed to save the file to my desktop, and instead found an enormous amount of bootlog files in my documents folder. I have a screenshot of part of what I found (there were a few more I couldn't get to fit). Should I delete all of them and continue with your last instructions?

Just an update since so much time has passed, I have not gotten another ctfmon error since 9/12 (don't know if not having internet helped, but I also didn't get one on the days I did have internet). Once my computer was horribly slow, I could hardly do anything. I checked the task manager, and most of my memory was being taken up by Edge, which I don't use. Maybe it was some Edge update? This is the first day in a while where we've had internet, but so far my computer is working pretty good right now.

 

I deleted all of the bootlog files and reran your Process Monitor step. I did have to reset the filters. I gave it 10 minutes to process the bootlog, and it said it was only at 2% so I made it stop. Now I have 2 bootlog files on my desktop. I don't understand why it can't finish, yet I get multiple bootlogs. I remember not having these issues when I used Process Monitor in the past.

Still no ctfmon error, but when I type I get too many of the letter S. So far there is improvement.

 

I just went to do this, and thought I'd open them up and take a look myself first. I don't think they will open. I click on the first one (bootlog.pml) and it says "A log of boot-time activity was created by a previous instance of Process Monitor. Do you wish to save the collected data now?" I thought this was the saved collected data, so I said no and another window pops up that says bootlog.pml wasn't closed cleanly and is corrupt. I say okay, and the bootlog opens but is empty, though says it is 3.25 GB. I tried to open bootlog-1.pml, and it does the same thing, but says it is 384 MB.

 

Sorry, I'm confused. I just tried running it again, I even uninstalled and reinstalled Process Monitor to make sure I was starting all over. I followed the instructions exactly. When I finished and went to save the file to my desktop, it said it would take well into the night. I gave it 15 minutes, and it was only 2% complete. I canceled it, and found 6 bootlogs on my desktop: Bootlog.pml through Bootlog-5.pml. None of them will open.

Are you wanting me to zip them and send them to you anyway to see if you can open them? Should I go through the whole process again during some time when I can give it hours to try to save the log again? It seems like they won't open because I keep interrupting it because it takes so long.