This post from tablet.

Lenovo laptop boots and loads the start screen or desktop but locks up if I click anything.

On the first reboot after the first lockup, it showed "Updating" message.

I have a disk image and am trying the Lenovo built-in recovery.

More news if it happens.

Back.

That sucked.

so you saved it?

Yeah, looks like it. I'm still installing Win updates that weren't on the backup disk image.

I don't know if anything has changed in the last 4-5 years but back in the day my assistant had a Lenovo NetBook. A couple months after it was purchased it started freezing so badly it was impossible to use. Shite brand.

>shite

After a year with my first Lenovos, I'm not enthusiast about the brand, either. Not wildly unhappy, particularly, just meh.

After this incident, what I do like is the hardwired One Key disk imaging. It's still a PITA to take time and make an image but this does make it a little more convenient.  It looks like that feature may have saved me this time.

All (53) Win updates done and the laptop hasn't bricked again, so I'm going to assume it was malware.  I was researching public domain math textbooks and that serp links into some damn sketchy .ru and eastern eu sites pretty quickly.  Also, porn.

I had a Lenovo that just went and went. Total workhorse. But it's all about the odds.

>odds

The loss of speed seems to be all the background stuff programs and apps keep adding in task manager (I just remembered to disable a crapload of them in startup) AND/OR poor driver support by Lenovo for individual models.  To be fair, Win 8.1 being unleashed caused some of this driver problem but, otoh, they should have fixed it by now.

>what I do like is the hardwired One Key disk imaging. It's still a PITA to take time and make an image

I ordered a 2nd pair of 64gb usb drives from Amazon Thursday afternoon and Bezos hustled on over to drop them off this morning (36 hr delivery out in the sticks. Impressive), so I've made a fresh/newer copy of the final, tweaked reinstall.  13 minutes.

I've had good luck with lenovo machines, really like them.

They make simple, fast, business-minded stuff that just works great. I just bought an off lease 2nd gen core i5 machine that was built maybe 1-1.5 yrs ago, complete with win7-64bit coa, not a spec of dust in it, still had the plastic sheet covering the front. Needed something quick and easy to sling from new downtown work space, and for $250 I couldn't be happier. Tossed in a low profile nvs card in it to run 3 displays, will throw in samsung's latest and greatest prosumer ssd for another 90, another stick of ram or 3 and this machine will smoke anything I throw at it for the next 2+ years.