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Possible to run Win 7 Defrag from bootable optical disk?

Hi, I've got a few apparently large files that Win Defrag can't resolve due their being on the system disk, C:\. Is it possible to create a boot CD to run defrag from so the system disk can be fully...

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Stuck on the Welcome Screen

When I start up my computer, it gets stuck on the welcome screen. If I try several keyboard combinations, such as "hsudfh" -> "Enter", it will eventually say "The password you entered is incorrect"...

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Inviting people to start defragmenting your HDD's

What a tool does piriform has (Defraggler), yesterday i had like 360GB of free space and i left the pc on the whole night while defragmenting my hard disk drive, and now i have like 430GB of free space...

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Solved Missing hdd space after cancelled volume shrink in Windows

Hello, I cancelled the volume shrink operation while it was in progress. Now I cannot find my other 300+ GB or disk space. When I go to my computer it says I have only 299GB out of 600GB. How do I...

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Sfc /Scannow found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them

I made 3 scans using Sfc /Scannow but still the corrupted files are there, so I used the Option Three using the CBS.log but then I not that techie to understand which files are corrupted that are...

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Extremely Slow HP z400

Takes a Age to Boot up Specs: 4 Core Xeon SSD 6 Gb of Ram

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Temporary Files >70GB

last week my computer had 60GB of free space, today <10GB! I used Jdiskreport & found that my Temp folder is over 70GB in size! how did my Temp folder get so large just in a month after...

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i7-3770 with 8GB of RAM is lagging

This computer is about 1 year old, and I thought it should be pretty potent, but lately it's lagging. It's an i7, I have 8GB of RAM, a WD blue caviar 1TB hard drive and an AMD Radeon 7800 series...

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Startup And Computer Slowed After Instaling Drivers,Programs,.Dlls etc

*Hi all,i recently had an 0xc000007b error with a headset software.I tried everything on the internet to solve problem including uninstalling and installing .net framework, visual c++ (all versions),...

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My Ram keeps filling up over a short amount of time, help please.

So i turn my computer on and leave it for a few hours and the Ram fills up slowly over time (a few hours) it will get to around 4000MB and i cannot find the culprit, i have read many forums, tried a...

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high cpu usage when gaming due to other programs!! need to kill them:)

hi again. when i am gaming i noticed via task manager i have a few things running in background that are constant cpu drain and wondering how to kill these for good and to know what they are? as they...

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Wireless Adapter + Headset causing slow preformance/freezes

I've had several times where my wireless adapter would suddenly disconnect and I'll have to reconnect it to work again, but occasionally when I replug it, it freezes my PC and I'd have to restart....

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When my netbook is on Power save mode, max CPU usage 59%?

Delete please, confused Seven Forums with Eight Forum lol.

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advice with many fonts (10,000+)

I hear many different Yes & No's, I was given a DVD disc with 10,000+ fonts a friend has accumulated over the years. should I install them all to the system. I hear one thing on one website about...

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How can I enhance laptop speed(inclu start) & remove unwanted programs

My laptop is slow on starting and also its overall speed is little slow, in spite of having sufficient RAM, CPU and hard speed for normal home purpose use. Kindly also help me identify which programs...

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which of these apps can be safely uninstalled?

I've uninstalled lots of programs, mainly Hewlett Packard stuff. It's freed up a lot of disc space, and i think my computer runs a little better too. I still have some stuff worth removing, but need...

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Boot Help (Got stuck at BIOS screen)

Hello I have recently re installed Win 7 due to a virus corrupting the boot files, today I tried to boot up after a hibernation and it got stuck at the BIOS interface screen and did not change... I...

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View reliability history: What to look for

Hello I got another running but problem still unresolved. So I may brake a rule if so pleas delete this post. This is a great community and I don't want to brake any rules....

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sfc /scannow not fixing bad file problems

I have run sfc /scannow multiple times. I have downloaded and run the System Update Readiness Tool and then rerun sfc. My log file continues to show many unfixed errors. The most recent log is...

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Random CPU spikes and Performance lagg

Hi everyone. The following is a quick overview of my problem, along with some screenshots of data, and my laptop specifications. All data below has been gathered when SWTOR was running so that I had an...

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