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Solved Can I use 3 DIMMS in a 4 DIMM MB

Hi, I have an ASUS P8P67 Deluxe MB with 4 DIMMS, I am running Win7 x64 with 4 2x2Gb sticks (16Gb total). I have been encountering an increasing number of various Memory type BSOD errors. Finally the...

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Slow shutdown and boot; Short DST failed

Product Name: Hp g72 notebook pc Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) Laptop was running smoothly until five days ago. At that time began to freeze up various applications...

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Is the deleting safe?

Hello, C:/Windows/SoftwareDistribution/Downloads -- is it SAFE to delete? Is the folder content connected to Win Update? Thanks

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explorer.exe consuming 50% CPU Usage Constantly

Hello there, I have been facing issues with explorer.exe. It is consuming 50% of cpu usage according the windows task manager. I restarted my PC several times, but no luck. I used Process Explorer to...

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CHKDSK on SSD

My laptop with a SSD (different from one in my system specs) recently froze up so I had to force shutdown it. There seems to be no corruption, but can I run chkdsk to make sure it is okay?

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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit won't go in standby

Hi to all i have this problem since many month. Windows won't go in standby. (or sleep) I start this command with administration mode: POWERCFG -energy I attach file txt about the report.

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Quad Core I7 Laptop Still Lags

I had an old asus laptop that was an i3 laptop that lagged quite a bit when i played online poker. I play 20 a lot of tables and use some programs for it that does take memory. I was told my laptop is...

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Quadcore I7 Laptop Battery Doesn't Show Time and Wears Out Quickly

Laptop is sager np2740. i7-4770HQ 8GB RAM Samsung 850 Evo Series 250GB Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 5200

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Slow start/reboot/shut downs, BSOD 0x0000009F..

Good evening to everybody, I am using this custom build pc from over 1 year: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz 8,00GB DDR3 ASRock Z77 Performance (CPUSocket) AMD Radeon HD...

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My Fastest Hardware Ever = My Slowest Windows 7 Ever!?

I need expert advice because this is completely crazy! My main desktop system (which I'm posting this from) was recently home-built from the very fastest hardware components I've ever owned, yet in...

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CPU and RAM usage keeps spiking?

I just reinstalled windows because of a virus on my PC and now in task manager my CPU usage can spike up to 40% and my ram stays at around 40-45% usage... Also my taskbar and start menu stop responding...

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How To Keep My Desktop Performance Up?

I have an Acer Aspire desktop pc with Windows 7. I believe that PCs can get bogged down with data, etc that can slow them down. I'm not having any specific problems, but prevention is better than cure....

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Disk Space decreasing continiously

Hello There, I have windows 7 home 64 on Dell inspiron 5010. I am using this computer from last 3 years and recently came with C drive (window installation) space problem. I lost around 20 GB space in...

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Startup Repair failure error code 0X490 Root Cause found:

Boot Config Corrupt..... :shock: Hi....I'm trying to get my friends laptop running....He installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit over Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit back in November 2014. It worked fine for...

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Windows 7 won't start due to a patch

My windows 7 will not start due to a patch. I don't know what the patch is. Any ideas?

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Win 7 System Restore 'Current Usage' question

Hi guys, I have a quick (and presumably simple) question I was wondering could be answered, as a complete tech noobie. First of all I had the 50% System Restore avast! bug a while back which I stumbled...

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Frequent Windows 7 Problems

I can't actually count all the issues I take with this system. Even XP ran better! So for the sake of brevity I'm going to try to focus on only a couple of the really big ones. The biggest issue I have...

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Enabling aero not working!

So I tried "Click the Start button and type "aero". Then click on “Find and fix problems with transparency and other visual effects”. After running the scan, this is what I got. Gyazo -...

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Solved Partition Wizard Pro 9 "Bootable Media Builder" fails to burn CD

Just tried to create a bootable CD using Partition Wizard Professional's "Bootable Media Builder", and it failed to write anything to the CD. ==> This is Partition Wizard Professional 9's BMB...

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CPU Rate limit

HI folks - new to sevenforums, so please adjust your responses if I've not searched properly before asking this:D Is anyone using the "CPU Rate Limit" feature? I was searching for a way to manage the...

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