Re: hardware check

[Lee <ler762@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 4:52 AM Michel Verdier wrote:
>
> A poor friend of mine is stucked on w$ and his computer has problems. I
> have no access to his system.
>
> Do you know a way to check his hardware, programs such as clamav,
> smartmontools or memtest, either running on w$ or from a live system?

Take a look at    https://www.passmark.com/

I couldn't find a  link from the front page but
  https://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup/
gets you to the smartmontool like thing and

  https://www.memtest86.com/
is the boot from a USB drive to test memory program

> But it has to be fully automated or with a simple ui. For example running
> clamav from shell commands is beyond his power.

diskcheckup is a _very_ simple point & click UI
I haven't used memtest is years.. but I remember it being easy enough
to fire off every test and come back hours later to see the results.
clamav is an anti-virus - yes?  Microsoft has their own anti-virus thing.  Try
  Start / Windows Security
  Virus & threat protection
which has a Quick Scan button and a 'Scan options' link where you can
tell it to do a full scan -- that warns that it could take more than
an hour.
I have a vague memory of doing a full scan once & it taking way more
than an hour  :(

Regards
Lee