How much slowdown will be caused by how many fonts? Windows 7
Hi all, I'm using Windows 7 ULT on a 2 GHZ dual processor machine with only 2 gigs of RAM. I'm wondering how much system slowdown will be caused by installing 70 new fonts or so in Windows 7. I know I...
View ArticleWindows hits invisible resource limit, grinds to a halt and freaks out
I stuck with Windows XP until just a few months ago because I knew Vista was a disaster and that Windows 7 had a lot of BS design changes. But I'd had it up to here with being stuck with < 4 GB RAM...
View ArticleHow to completely Automate the Windows Repair tool
As we all know if windows fails to boot due to some sort of error it will boot into a repair utility. I would like to find out if there is anyway to automate that process so that no one has to actually...
View ArticleCHKDSK prompt pops up every time I boot.
So in my last post, I removed a virus from another HDD. Ever since then, I get a strange CHKDSK screen (the Windows Log-on has not loaded yet) The weird thing is, It checks my ORIGINAL drive, not the...
View ArticleSolved Icon cache always corrupts
Following recommendations I found with Google, which came from this forum, I set up a bat file that deletes the icon cache db and reboots. That works. I also resized the icon cache to 8192, which is...
View ArticleLaptop extremely slow to wake up from sleep mode, 5+ minutes to wake
Hi, I am new here. Hoping someone can help me out with this issue. I work in IT so am not a complete computer bonehead and am at my wits end with this. My laptop is about 4 years old, it's a toshiba....
View ArticleSome Startup Programs Don't Start Straight Up When Windows Starts
Hello Community, I extra made a account in this forum, because the people on the forum, I usually use, couldn't help me. Recently I freshly bought Windows 7 Ultimate and it works very well. But one...
View ArticleAll programs, including explorer, stop responding.
Hello and Thank you in advance! Recently, on random occasions, all programs that are running become totally unresponsive, eventually stop working and have to be closed. This includes windows explorer....
View ArticleMultipule Explorer.exe using a lot of memory.
Hello everyone, I'm running into an issue with my system. I've attached an image of my System Processes. It's showing multipule explorer.exe processes running at over 100,000k and iexplore.exe at over...
View ArticleReally need help, "Not enough memory" problems & not latest software?
Okay just to start off I just joined this forum and the community seems great and it's so much easier to navigate than the actual microsoft forums. You guys seem really active and i'm hoping you can...
View ArticleIs it normal for windows to run out of ram while still having 2gb left
My system have 8gb of ram and as i observe while opening mkv file, firefox with about 15 tabs, cgminer the ram usage shot up to 5-6gb. At that point windows start warning about system run out of ram...
View Articlescannow finds faults
Hello all, I had to run scannow on my wifes computer after it had been having all sorts of weird problems like programs crashing, mice pointers dissapearing, lock up and others. After runing scannow it...
View ArticleFor SSD users, tired of letting Windows Search shorten their lifespan
Since you are an SSD user , I just wanted to pitch you something. A problem, a solution, and a replacement. So please read on. I have a 256gb SSD for solely programs and the operating system, and 196...
View ArticleCan I cleanup Control Panel>programs and features entries
This section of my win 7 professional (x64) computer appears to have files that are out of date, near duplicates and possible useless files (x32 versions and I use x64 OS). For example, the addition of...
View ArticleUser Permission Settings, Regedit dll, wmimgmt.msc security malfunctio
Somehow, the user permission settings have been changed to 'everyone' and I cannot get access to A) Regedit B) Run as administrator C) wmimgmt.msc nor D) Microsoft Security Essentials (for update) I...
View ArticleRepair your computer from CD won't work
I am trying to fix a Windows 7 laptop which will not start up. I am able to get to the Installation disk and access the Repair Your Computer option. Usually you should get the next option screen which...
View ArticleWindows 7 Restarts from Forced Sleep Mode
Hello all, I would just like to start off by saying that this is my first post. So, thank you in advance for taking the time to read this. As the title suggests, I am having issues waking my computer....
View ArticlePrevious updates disabled my CPU and I want to disable future updates
Until about 3 weeks ago, my Dell laptop was set to download and install Windows updates automatically. It did so, periodically. But I noticed that about 3 weeks ago, around January 20, 2014, updates...
View ArticleBlack Screen At First Startup
Hey guys, First post to be gentle. I have been looking into why when we first boot up machines we get a black screen and it takes forever to startup. I understand first time processes need to load and...
View ArticleComputer Running So SlOOOOOOOW
I have Windows 7 64 bit. It was running very slow so via msconfig I disabled the background programs. Then it ran quite quickly for a few weeks. Now the speed is back to where it was. The background...
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