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Overactive HDD - Constant 1-2mb/s read and writes

For some reason my main HDD's got lots of activity and it takes a couple of hours to settle down. Resource monitor's showing a constant 1-2mb/s read/write by 'system'. Sometimes, it takes quite a while...

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Possible folders to delete?

Hello As the attachements show, there are 7 Roxio/Sonic files[shared] in Ccleaner but I do not use Roxio or Sonic. There are also tons of Silverlight files in Ccleaner along with as many Activex/Com...

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keep getting "not enough disk space" with 2 hard drives

I have to harddrives, drive :C/ and drive D :/ drive c has the basic miniums and came with 16 gbs of space which is completely full with windows , then drive d has 136gbs and is 103gb of free space...

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sppsvc.exe is eating lot of process

Hello can anyone tell me what is sppsvc.exe? as it eats a lot of memory mostly it eats 5-6 M.B's & it starts after 30 mins after turning my computer if i disable it by going to Services.msc my...

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Windows Experience Index Number way too low!!!!

I have an Asus G73SW Republic of Gamers laptop. Systems specs are an i7 2630QM 2.0ghz cpu, 16GB of ram, 1TB and 500GB, Nvidia GeForce 460m 1.5g of mem. My question is looking at other people that have...

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scan & fix local disk

Hi every time I connect my external hard to my laptop this message appears: Image: http://mdki.net46.net/images/f7be8c57773f.png I once responded to the message and did the scan and fix but its coming...

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lsass.exe process very high ram usage

iv experiencing slowdowns in my machine, im noticing that the lsass.exe process is taking alot of memory all of a sudden - up to 2GB ! Here: Image: http://i.imgur.com/TZLhh.png...

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Will enabling compression when formatting USB drive slow it's writing?

I was wondering if enabling compression when formatting a USB drive slow it's writing ability? I recently did this to a new USB drive & I swear it seems to be taking a lot longer to...

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Scheduled defrag query

I ran Defrag from the start menu and it complained that the task was already scheduled. In Task Scheduler I deleted the current Microsoft>Windows>Defrag scheduled defrag task and ran the Defrag...

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Troubleshooting Excessive Memory Use (Memory Leak?) after playing vid.

HI; I am having a problem with my memory getting tied up / used up and not being able to access it again until I reboot. Machine: Dell xps studio 8100 OS: Win 7, Processor: i7 2.8 RAM: 16GB (max it...

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Solved Are these files important?

hey guys i just want to know if these files are important and if not can i delete them ?( sorry about my english :o)

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Software for serious cleaning of clutter on SSD Root Drive

Hello ladies & gentlemen. I am looking for some suggestions of a program or two I can buy to help me seriously clean out my SDD Root Hard Drive. I manually deleted over 8 gigs over the last 3 days....

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Speeding up Lenovo c300 in gaming

Hello , its been a years since a purchase my pc (lenovo c300 ,windows vista basic). I usually use my laptop(toshiba laptop l745d) for gaming since its faster than my pc(lenovo c300). But after our...

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Solved Mortal Kombat Kollection performance issues

I'm running this game on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Phenom II X6 1100T, HD 6850, 8GB RAM and 1TB HD PC with DirectX 11 via Steam. I'm using Bitdefender and I'm sure it's the main cause of the...

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Computer slowdown can't work out why

Sometimes everything goes slow - typing in my web browser goes laggy, slower to respond to clicks, can't play games at all cos they run so slow. CPU hardly being used, not much RAM being used,...

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Which of these start-up applications should I remove?

Hello! I am currently deactivating several programs from my boot-list in an attempt to stop a little problem...

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Windows 7 x64 Freezing for up to a minute

Symptoms: Every few minutes, some windows stop responding and the cursor changes to a spinning donut and disappears when moved over certain windows. Usually, the System Idle Process still has over 50%...

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O% CPU Usage, 54 Physical Memory

Don't know much about computers, but...just started occasionally getting one short beep or two short beeps every once in a while. Read thru a few forums, and found some responses concerning memory....

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prefetch folder

hi.i have WIN 7 64bit. i just get the attention from tune up program that some files in the prefetch folder is deleted by me or a program. idon't know if it is dangerous? if yes please tell me what...

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Solved PC too slow for my pc using compaq presario sr1214nx

Hi I have a pc that has these specs p.s. i know that my pc is old being that it still uses agp AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 1.5 ram 80 gb hdd asus dvd drive ATI radeon 4650 hd agp directx 10.1 For some strange...

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