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SFC cannot repair files

I installed some updated drivers from the Dell website & all seemed to be OK. Decided to run SFC & it said there were problems it could not repair. I have attached the CBS.log file. Thanks for...

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PC gaming performance drop

Hi, I have a very frustrating issue on my PC. Games performance drops whenever I play it for 10-20 minutes. It varies, e.g. when I play watch dogs, it stutters after playing for 15 minutes. GTA IV lags...

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Show list of errors on Winsows 7

Hi guys. I've searched the forum but nothing shows up. Please move this thread to the correct forum if needed? I have the GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} shortcut on the desktop which...

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Win 7 Search Integration Problems with Thunderbird 31 on New Hard Driv

My apologies for mis-posting this in the wrong place a week ago under 'general' instead of this performance section. Thank you in advance for any help on this very frustrating problem. My OS is Win 7...

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System file checker

Does anyone have a link where I can find a list of all the commands ( and what they do) for System file checker in Windows 7 ? thank you Joe

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Extremely slow Windows Welcome screen, please help

I recently found myself in a financial rut and decided it would be a smart idea to pawn my laptop for some quick cash until I received my paycheck the following week. Well, I went through with the...

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Disk Cleanup not removing system update files/SFC can't fix problems

Disk Cleanup claims it can remove about 9.5 GB of old system update files, but upon running it, nothing happens (and I don't free up any space). This may or may not be related, but I ran SFC and it...

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Performed System Cleanup-Rebooted system Continuous loop "Cleaning Up"

Hello all, Helping a friend on their Laptop PC, Sony Vaio, Model: PCG 61813L (2 yrs old). OS = Win7 Home Premium. Having the following problems: Maintenance has never been performed: I performed a...

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How do I kill a process that cannot be killed in the usual way?

Have encountered the below issue 3 times already. I launch a program - from Windows 7 startup panel The program does not show up. I try again and even a 3rd time. Nothing happens. Looking in the...

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Solved Show list of errors on Windows 7

Hi guys. I've searched the forum but nothing shows up. Please move this thread to the correct forum if needed? I have the GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} shortcut on the desktop which...

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Help me :( Checking File system on C gets stuck on verifying indexes.

First of all, I gotta warn that I am not a computer expert, I'm a girl and I don't know what to do, I would appreciate someone explaining me step by step pretty please!! Ok, so I first turn on my...

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Process Stealing Focus from Programs, Log Attached

I've been having a background process steal focus from my programs for the last few weeks, and it's getting to be intolerable. After starting my laptop, it takes maybe 10 minutes on the outside for the...

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Chdsk finds the same 10 unindexed orphan files each time

I have been having trouble with Windows acting weird so I ran Chkdsk /F on my 2TB Seagate SATA drive. It reported that it found and fixed issues. However, it didn't really fix anything. Each time it is...

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Please check my energy report

Hi everyone, Since I fired my new build few weeks ago everything has been running great but one thing: the pc won't wake up from sleep. Fan spinning, but no monitor signal, no Num Lock light and no way...

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C drive space disappearing

I'm constantly losing space on my C drive and the situation seems to be getting even worse recently: every time I use the computer I lose at least 0.5 GB of space on C, which means that getting on my...

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netsvcs commits 1.8Gb RAM

Hello lately I've found my PC slowing down to a crawl and when I check the resource monitor, it's a process called svchost.exe (netsvcs) that's committing massive resources (see attached screenshot)....

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Uninstall and Appdata

Even with using Revo I have seen that the entries under \AppData\Roaming\whatever are not removed. This is inconvenient, to say the least, when trying to do various schemes of backup and record-data...

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Programs not responding,critical drops of fps in a game and more..

Hello everyone, I have a problem and I would be very happy if someone could help me. Recently i bought this laptop, a really powerful machine for its price(Lenovo Y50-70, if u want to know the specs)....

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PC using high amounts of RAM when idle (up to 50%) for no reason.

Heyo all. I built my PC a few weeks ago, and it's mostly been going with no problems. However, I've recently noticed that after using my PC for a while my RAM usage continually increases for no reason....

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major malware removal job, now computer is running slow

was sent here by a nice guy at forum malwarebytes who helped me over 10 days/nights to free my Windows 7 desktop of malware and other nasties. Began with a black screen with cursor and no other...

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