Irritating AppHang issue - Freezes all of the time
Hi everyone. I am hoping someone will be able to help me solve this problem once and for all, as it's starting to do my head in now! I'm ready to throw the computer out of the window, lol. :confused:...
View ArticleWildlife.wmv and SFC/scannow
Hi, I'm using Win 7 Ultimate x64 and when I run SFC /scannow command, I get an error in the log file saying that wildlife.wmv is missing. Why doesn't SFC just replace the file? I know it's not a...
View ArticleA few quick steps to make your pc faster, easy and effective
I've gotten so much help from this site I thought I would post a video I made to help anyone quickly that general slow issues and as much as I could explain in fifteen minutes:D....
View ArticleDownloads/Uploads speeds - what do they mean please?
I just did a test on Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test (http://www.speedtest.net/) My results were .... Download 14.68Mbps and Upload 0.95Mbps Could someone please explain to...
View ArticleChkdsk says "bad sectors". Do I need to replace my hard drive?
Here is the log from Chkdsk. Would someone be kind enough to read it and let me know your thoughts? I had problems with my touchpad and cursor behaving erratically on my Dell Inspiron 1440 laptop and...
View ArticleWhen I windows starts up I am asked to check F
It gives me 10 seconds until it starts and I can press a button to stop it. At 64% it gets kinda stuck too.
View ArticleWindows 7 taking 5-10 minutes to boot up.
Certainly Today my Computer started slowing up,it is taking 5-10 minutes to boot up. After Boot it is very slow,when I check ram usage it says 34% cpu usage 2-10% when windows media player is opened.I...
View ArticlePeriodic disk read usage spiking
Good day. Every now and then my hard drive disk usage in Resource Monitor goes 100% for a few seconds(sometimes a minute or two). Then it comes back and everything runs fine. The CPU and memory use are...
View ArticleWin7 long boot time
Hello everyone, Recently I've been experiencing extremely long boot times on Windows 7. Now the problem occurs when its already booted up; the moment from pressing the power button untill I see my...
View ArticleI cannot fix files from SFC . 4000 files stuck on PendingRenames folde
Hello, I have a problem with my Drobo box (network attached storage). I can see it on my laptop as a separate drive, but not on my desktop. Some guys from Microsoft suggest me to run an SFC as i might...
View ArticleNot getting any interpolation/hardware acceleration since upgrading
Ever since upgrading to Windows 7 from XP I've been getting blocky, non-interpolated image/video resizing in just about every application. To top it off, the section to change this option in advanced...
View ArticlePossible Problem with Hard drive
So a few days ago I was on my computer trying to update "adobe flash" and during the download my computer froze. I couldn't get task manager to run ctrl+alt+delete wouldn't work so I force shut it down...
View ArticleChrome temp files in Ramdisk
I have created two folders way back and now see that all cache files from Google Chrome also media files are stored in both folders. The main folder that I am using " BrowserCache" for Google with two...
View ArticleSometimes USB ports work, sometimes they don't
My USB ports work for some usb devices, i.e., I use a wireless mouse and the USB port works for that. puhave inserted my SanDisk for downloading audiobooks yesterday and it recognized it and it worked,...
View ArticleComputer not sleeping, need a script to save power
My computer doesn't sleep since I often have WMC on playing music at night. So I'm losing power. I thought I'd write a script and run it at, say, 2 AM to make sure the thing will hibernate and then...
View ArticleWindows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix
i run a system scan * Windows system 32 >Sfc /scannow * and the result * Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them* My sfcdetails.txt is atached . how to fix...
View Articlesystem config and restart
I inadvertently disabled the PC to restart after I tell something not to start up, within sys config. Could someone please let me know how to get that back? Is it even necessary for that restart? TYVM...
View ArticleSolved Laptop Memory Drop
Hi Guys, I have my Lenovo G560 Laptop running Win7 Ultimate 64 bit. And now it becomes slow and I think its because of ram Before, my laptop's rating is 4.0 , and now after reformat(OEM factory) it...
View ArticleTerrible performance issues
I cannot play games. Each minute or so I have a lag for about 1 secons. During suxch lags I am usually killed or miss a good chance. Under Linux on the same machine in the same games there are no lags....
View ArticleOverheating and unusually high CPU usage
I've been noticing for the past few months (or more, this has gone on for so long) that my PC has been consuming an unusually high amount of power despite the fact my usage hasn't changed much since...
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