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View Articlea system 32 dll error on bootup
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I have a decent Toshiba laptop ;) (core i3, dedicated ATI Graphic card, windows 7 home premium, 4Gb rams...) But my boot time is slow:shock:: 3- 5 minutes until all my programs are loaded and until I...
View ArticleWhat do you guys think of registry cleaners?
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View ArticleScheduled tasks ccleaner question...cleaning some stuff
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View ArticleWindows 7 crashing while running Windows Experience Index refresh
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View ArticleAdding a win. user - affects performance?
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I have a laptop with intel processor 2020m which supports iest technology. I use it mostly for reading pdfs and dont need that much of cpu speed; however it runs at max all the time so the battery is...
View ArticleWinDirStat and System Volume Information
I have System Protection turned on on my OS drive and have about a dozen restore points available. Max space for system restore is set at 5.3GB. When I run WinDirStat it shows System Volume Information...
View ArticleUnstable system scannow returns problems not fixed. What next?
I found a very old thread and followed suggestion to post new. So here goes. Over the last few days I have experienced a pronounced slowdown on my Lenovo Win 7 SP1 machine. Tried a lot of thing ending...
View Articlecleaning window 7 registry
So this is my situation. I first installed a computer game. Then I went ahead and installed all my computer software like Microsoft Office. I am having problems with this game. So they tech support...
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View Articlesfc /sannow cannot fix corrupted files
Hello. I've ran "sfc /scannow" three times and it has failed to fix corrupted files. Fairly certain these corrupted files are causing my computer to crash and prevent windows from updating (hiding the...
View ArticleHow to remove $WINDOWS.~Q file after repair install
Have the subject file ($WINDOWS.~Q) in my C: folder....how do you totally remove this...and what is it exactly ? Thanks...TRinAz
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