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Task Scheduler corrupted after repair isntall

Did my first "repair Install" a couple days ago it appeared to run and succeed without a hitch...however...I did have a lot of issues with my AV/Firewall service but they now seems to be repaired and...

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Disk Activity is Constantly 100%

My Disk Activity is Constantly 100%, i feel that my PC is running a Little bit slow then from task manager>resource monitor i see that my disk activity is 100% and also my Hard disk Light is Not...

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Very slow system

I have a Dell Vostro 3555 laptop with an AMD A6-3400 CPU, 3.GB RAM, 64-bit operating system. Over the last couple of months, the machine has gotten slower and slower. I first noticed an increase in the...

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Asus Laptop Still Slow After Windows Reinstall

Hi, Over the last few months my Windows 7 ASUS X53E has been getting slower and slower. So the other day I finally got round to using the recovery disk to do a clean wipe of the hard drive and re...

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Alienware M9700 with Win 7 runs very slow, can you give suggestions?

I was given an Alienware M9700 with Win XP recently . What I have done to it so far: * Installed Windows 7 sp1 * Updated all drivers * Programs: * Mozilla Firefox * Google Chrome * Malwarebytes * Free...

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Another laptop that will not power off with Windows 7

A month or so ago my HP-Probook-4530s laptop with Windows 7 x64 stopped powering off after shutdown. It did before, but stopped, and it will not do a Restart either. Manually powering it off is...

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PC seem slower than usual: What should I look or test

Hello My PC look slower than usual. Screens are slower to update and compiling software seem to take longer I did test for malware and virus. Nothing found. I look at cpu temp using Speedfan, look ok...

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Right click breaks windows explorer AND computer window

Reposting here (rather than in Backup thread) to get a broader number of brains. Pic below. Unexpected results and crash of Windows Explorer (WE). If I right click on any individual element in the left...

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PC Wont sleep

Hi, Fresh install on Windows 7 SP1 x64. After having windows 8 for 6 month decided to downgrade. Sleep worked perfectly fine for one week, not my PC does not enter sleep after 30mins or even when I...

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pc keep shutting down randomly without reason

Hello.... i just got my new custom build pc and everything looked fine until it started to shut down like the power just went out randomly and when i turn it on it gives me to run it on safe mode or...

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Excessive RAM usage, Cannot find culprit, need it fixed ASAP

So just as i said in the description, my ram fills up till there is nothing left (8GB) there are no open programs and i shut off unnecessary processes but its still right up there, here are some screen...

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typical low cpu usage medium memory AND MORE!

You've read similar threads like this a lot of times. Sorry to have to make you go through it again. History: I was uninstalling a few programs i either didn't know of or no longer needed. A day or two...

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"Windows Explorer has stopped working" error repeatedly.

when i switch on the laptop, i got "Windows Explorer has stopped working" and then it try to restart "Windows Explorer is restarting".. it happened continuously and after about 5 min, it run normally....

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Can't defrag system drive though 29% fragmented

10% is the limit over which the system will auto-defrag but the system disc won't be defragmented. I'm wondering if that might be the reason for slow starting, double icons and other niggling things...

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Help needed! I have about 30 Com Surrogate processes that show up ...

after a while using the computer. This has just started today. :shock: I ran Avira, MalwareBytes and SysBot and nothing shows up such as malware or a virus. So I am at a loss about this. I am worried...

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Computer takes about 1.5 minutes to load the desktop + icons

Granted my computer's now 4-5 years old. I was wondering if anyone has an idea on this. I ran chkdsk, Malwarebytes, and Ccleaner. All were clear but the last, which fixed many things, but I still have...

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Startup Repair Error

Hello everyone, I’m posting because I’m having an issue with my laptop. It’s a Toshiba with Windows 7. I used it yesterday with no problems whatsoever, but this morning when I booted it up, I very...

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Disabling Superfetch Is Not Working...

Hi guys, I've been doing some research and learning about Superfetch and what it does. I understand the philosophy behind it...such as..."unused Ram is wasted Ram," etc, etc. Personally, I have to say...

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Manually removing obsolete items from registry

When you delete items from the registry that are no longer installed on the PC...can you just delete the 'key' in the left hand column...or should you only delete the info in the right hand column ?...

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DHCP and DNS Errors In Event Viewer

so everyday, maybe about 20x i get these errors in event viewer. Does anyone know how to fix these? Code: --------- Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-DNS-Client Date: 8/26/2014 11:09:43 PM...

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