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hdd easily gets 100% busy

ram low usage its ok cpu is ok low usage and even just copying from folder to folder or partition to partition lags, in such situation if i try to do something else in same time while copying mentioned...

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Solved Extremely poor performance after W7 Ultimate upgrade.

Hi all: Earlier this afternoon I used the windows 7 "anytime upgrade" feature to upgrade from windows 7 home premium to windows 7 ultimate.The process completed without errors and the pc restarted....

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Screen turns off after being idle, increased CPU usage

Hello, I recently did a factory reset on my laptop. The problem I have is that the screen turns off after being idle, and the CPU usage increases dramatically afterwards, causing my laptop to overheat...

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One CPU core maxed out

This issue happens randomly and only hard restart fixes it: basically sometimes the computer goes crazy. It starts even before loginning in. Password takes a lot of time to type (those dots appear...

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Laptop freezes for 1 minute & makes a loud buzzing noise in my room

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop, about 4 years old. I've had this problem for a while now. Whenever I take my laptop inside my bedroom, unplugged or plugged in, doesn't matter, when I try to watch a...

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Disk space usage for system restore constantly resetting to 50% of HD

Image: http://i.imgur.com/EvPo4HH.jpg It just keeps going back to this setting. I know about it and regularly adjust now, so it's more of just an annoyance now. But it caused me to reinstall windows...

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Slow Copy Speeds 10 MB/s w/Teracopy and system Freezes!

First off, Happy New Year all. And thanks in advance to contributors. I have looked at every thread on this issue and there doesn't seem to be definitive solution. I've googled this on and off over the...

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New OS build and CPU at 100%

I am new to the forum and don't even now were to start with this issue except maybe give a little bit of background. Being a mechanical engineer I bought this dell m6400 about 1 year ago and did a new...

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My PC is running at max CPU usage

All of a sudden My PC is running at max CPU usage and lots of Services and Processes running that should not be. I can't figure out why. I try and end the processes and they just come back on. AVG and...

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Why is my RAM (8GB) showing up like this?

Normally my RAM shows up like this: Total Memory: 8192mb But lately, I noticed a change, coinciding with some strange performance issues on my PC. It is now saying: Total Memory: 8126mb with 64mb...

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Possible Memory Leak Virus - Anti-virus detects nothing?

Hello, I am needing some support on what is exactly taking up all the RAM on my brother's PC as after about 8 hours of uptime, 65% of my Physical Memory is being used up with nothing really open. I did...

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Performance Issues with my Sisters' Laptop

My sisters' Laptop has become really slow. I am running ESET Online Scanner to see if it detects any viruses. After that, I will run SFC. Any other suggestions?

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Win 7 "Sees" Win 8 Phone on USB Port but Subsequently Ignores It

When I plugged in my Win 8 phone into my Win 7 laptop USB port the laptop used to open a dialog box offering action choices. Now it just (1) sounds the two tones and (2) lists a Windows phone in the...

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Slow system's peformance

Currently running Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit(service pack 1) and while It is several years old, its being constantly updated, protected by up-to-date Malwarebytes Pro and AVG Anti-virus. However after...

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Huge rebot time

Hi My laptop Dell Studio XPS L502 i7 with following config: Windows 7 Home Premium 64b (WEI Rating: 5.7) Ram 8GB Nvidia GeForce GT 540M WD HDD 500GB WD Portable 1TB

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Memory Issues on new Setup

First of all, thanks for taking your time to read this. A week ago, i transferred my HDD with the Windows 7 installation along with 8 GB of RAM and the PSU to a completely new motherboard. Since my...

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Respoure Monitor -not running?

Hello the Forum, I have had my system up perhaps 12 weeks, new to win 7, being a grouchy XP luddite. Had been scavenging stuff off my older system's hard disks (no longer bootable. Also wading thru W7,...

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dllhost.exe High CPU Usage (Ole32.dll)

Hello! Recently, I have been experiencing high CPU usage by DLLHost, and I am unaware of how to fix it. I think I may know why it's been happening, and let me explain: ---Quote--- I was exporting sound...

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Solved How do I associate an "unknown file type" to a program?

Long story short, I used Handbrake to add soft subtitles to some video clips and the finished result are "unknown file types" which I have to open with vlc every time, the "Always use the selected...

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Step-by-step process of adding a batch file to a performance alert?

Hello, I have this problem that is bugging me for several days now. I have noticed there is a perfomance issue when my computer starts up, and after awhile it slows down to a crawl then gives me a blue...

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