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Your problem is Meltdown and Spectre security patches…I had to fix multiple computers with those patches enabled… Download Inspectre and disable/turn off both Meltdown and Spectre as needed. You will see a big increase in speed and the computer should be running a lot better.
https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm

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frogant

I use that command as I use VMware and it makes a big difference when using it…it is optional

 

This has made a huge difference on 7 computers that had the update

Try this in safemode if it will do it:

Set the value “Shell” to “explorer.exe”: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

 

That may do the trick

 

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Travasaurus

Even Vista can get it right

 

Thanks for the answer I have lots of files and it really sucks that the issue did not occur till the update …Really irritated that I have some files that I need to keep intact and have to revert smaller names and less deep files all because someone coded the last update and put in an old code on file name lengths…Ugh!  When you have to work with thousands of files in the day and this error also affects network shares …So ….Windows 7  can know the correct file size. an older Windows 10 has no issue and a current updated Windows 10 can’t get it right at all…They broke what worked.

 

lol, I made a working bootable clone of the drive …then reset as she did not have a lot on it and then copied her data from the clone to the drive. I always work on a computer that is bad with an exact replica clone so if there is a program that damages or wipes the data when you try to remove it I still have everything…I had that happen with some highjack ware that when I ran malwarebytes it proceeded to damage the bootsector and encrypt the pictures and documents…. it was a nasty one….

oh I did all that and removed the virus/malware but the remnants of it disabled even the hidden admin from being able to access the system … it got into the core maybe as a rootkit and anything that says they are admin are no longer…even a new profile with admin rights…ugh….its something she got when she was on facebook….on the side note she also had a user in her computer that I think was able to access her files remotely…..who ever it was is good at coding and used a VPN as I tried to trace. That is part of why I wiped and reloaded….I even cleaned out the bootsector. I am not good enough to figure out how it was done in the registry to block the users admin…and I am sure that they tagged the trusted user account and that is how they were in her system.

yep even that did not have any rights…because the actual admin is blocked to a semi standard user you can not access anything in system without the error you do not have access or privileges and so on….and that was the dilemma

That was a good article but any clone will be prone to failure with “winload.exe…..is missing or corrupt” or other boot errors
this is what I do in in a simple method and I usually never have a issue
1. [/FONT]Use a third party Boot manager
2. [/FONT]Generalize and prepare the BCD as per http://www.multibooters.co.uk/cloning.html
bcdedit /set {current} osdevice boot
bcdedit /set {current} device boot
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device boot
bcdedit /set {memdiag} device boot

Follow the directions to set Hibernation Object or turn Hibernation off

3. [/FONT]Do whole drive sector-by-sector cloning
4. Slave the drive and remote registry edit the SYSTEM from the registry from slaved drive
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMMountedDevices
delete all the Mounted devices
this fixes drive letter assignment
5. Reboot and add the cloned drive to the boot manager (with swap option if available)
6. Boot the cloned drive and you are done

You need both drives attached at the same time to another computer …it is the only way to “Destripe” the drive as configured in RAID …you can send the drives to a lab or buy the software

I did find this and it is free but untested by me
http://www.freeraidrecovery.com/

the USB drive adapter
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=12-119-152&SortField=0&SummaryType=0&PageSize=100&SelectedRating=-1&VideoOnlyMark=False&IsFeedbackTab=true#scrollFullInfo

here is Raid Recovery
http://www.runtime.org/raid-recovery-windows.htm
or Raid Reconstructer
http://www.runtime.org/raid.htm

Awesome

Ok first…how are you loading the XP? Is it on the second drive or is it on a second primary partition on the first drive? did you leave both drives connected when you loaded xp?
These questions are important as HP machines have a FAT primary partition witjh the Recovery Restore in the first partition. if that is changed or altered the drive letter sequence changes, this is also affected if you remove or add a harddrive.
Does the xp see itself as drive C: ?
Setting the NTDLR is only a small part of the whole picture.
some people are lucky in this and some are not..but to help you we really need the info

Read this site… http://www.multibooters.co.uk/bootmgr.html
I prefer bootit NG over the native windows boot manager. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootit-next-generation.htm

first you have to load the hard drive on another computer as a slave and do malwarebyte and any good antivirus scans

LOL, … That is pretty much the same thing I am doing as per your post ……then you put the drive back into the computer you got it out of…I pretty much I am done with this thread as I don’t see much more that can be done

hmmm! parallel installation and Remote Desktop/Assistance are two different beasts. Most of my customers are medical services related and have to comply with HEPPA laws. As a rule of thumb I do not create a security issue by using any remote desktop software. Corporate customers get very uncomfortable when someone has remote access to their data and drives like what it would take to access a drive for av and malware removal. Some things you just can’t fix unless you have your hands on the failed computer