Event ID7 Bad Block- How I made it worse. Can it be fixed?
I have been helping my mother remotely to fix her computer. I have been seeing sporadic Event ID 7 Bad Blocks in the the event viewer. I read about this problem on the internet (yikes :shock:). One...
View ArticleProblem with encrypted volume on Windows startup
My E drive is encrypted with True Crypt and i have changed the location of Desktop folder to E:\Desktop and now every time i start windows i receive this message: Attachment 350443...
View ArticleSlow Boot self resolves?
Yah, Well if it didn't do it itself then maybe the NSA's secret spies (who are watching my every move like secret black silent helicopter-hawks and can read my mind through 50 layers of tin foil) must...
View ArticleWindows is too slow.
Yup, got that message from my Windows, it said something that it had detected that my computer has become very slow so that is struggling to run the Aero theme and that I would have to change to basic....
View ArticleWin 7 ultimate crash everyday
Sir, I have Windows 7 ultimate 64Bit VS2008 & VS2012 installed. Before installing VS2012 my PC working properly. After installation my pc restart or hang or crash one time every day. Log given...
View ArticleDisk Cleanup does not delete windows update files
Hi! The windows directory on my installation has gotten extremely bloated and I would like to free up some space. The Disk Cleanup utility nicely offers to free up 7 GBs of windows update data....
View ArticleFree space on system drive
Last month i've periodically receive messages about "not enough space on disk C:\" Have cleaned up most of it, but still didnt get one thing Image:...
View ArticleCorrupted files found by sfc /scannow cannot be fixed.
Corrupted files found by sfc /scannow cannot be fixed(please see attachment). Have gone through the sfc tutorial. The attached files cannot be fixed with chkdsk /r/f. I believe Windows7 SP1 is...
View ArticleWindows clock regularly changes itself to a random (?) date/time
*The problem:* The windows clock goes periodically out of sync. I noticed this happening mostly when I restart the computer (though I have not been able to pin down the exact recurrence). I tried a...
View ArticleCrash when gaming, no BSOD, no errors
Symptoms: The whole computer crashes, the monitors freeze in their place, showing the last image before the crash, the last sound byte seems to go into a short loop, making a buzzing sound before...
View ArticleSFC /Scannow will not run due to Windows Resource Protection.
First off Hello I'm new on here nice to meet ya. I'm running windows 7 32bit, I just now begun noticing problems with my computer when the windows update service kept displaying the same updates and...
View ArticleSlow computer and RAM issue
Hi, so i am facing a very annoying issue and that is that my computer is slow. Another issue on top of that is that when i launch a video game that meets my PC specs, it usually minimizes constantly...
View ArticlePerfmon max sample rate no longer < 1 sec?
In past versions I recollect using a faster than 1 sec sample rate for Performance Monitor. It was done under Perfmon properties->General->Graph Elements, and you'd set "Sample every" to 0.5...
View ArticleRan windows update, now computer is running crappy, jerks, halts
Everything was fine! For years. I had updates OFF, last updates were done spring 2014. I got another TV Tuner card, a Avermedia m791 combo pcie Turned updates on. Windows said it had to update the...
View ArticleCan I physically reallocate pagefile on disk to improve performance
Hello, thanks for reading the topic. I've noticed that my page file , which is configured to 8gb, it's fragmented into 2 sectors of the HDD... That would not be bad, since I would believe the 4gb space...
View ArticleHigh DPC Latency No Stuttering
Recently I had some High DPC Latency which I believe was the cause of some sound stuttering. I believed it was my headset but when my new headset, Sennheiser PC363D, came in I had the same problem. At...
View ArticleHigh interrupt/DPC; culprit found, now what?
Gigabyte GA-MA785GPMT-UD2H, AMD Phenom II X3, Win7Pro64Sp1 I'm having two weird problems, that may be related, or maybe not. Some background... I built this machine five years ago, and recently decided...
View ArticleBoot Trace. SLOW PC at Boot Up.
HI, I am trying to figure out why my PC takes over 2 minutes to show desktop after entering credentials,. I have 8GB of RAM and Presently replaced HDD with a Solid State drive and still no change,. I...
View ArticleSolved Gbs reduced overnight?
I usually do a disc cleanup and run Mbam and SAS before shutting down for the night. It shows higher GBs prior to shutting down than when booting up the next day.:confused: I don't mind the loss, but...
View ArticleSuddenly extremely slowed down on well-maintained computer
Hello, I've had my Lenovo E530 with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit as my "server laptop" for 1 year and half about now. As of yesterday, the entire computer seems to respond extremely slow, here are few key...
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