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Just a preface, I truly am a scrublord when it comes to computers so if I'm semi-delusional, please forgive me. I believe that My laptop got attacked by malware. I clicked on a wrong link while...
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Hi,have purchased a used Acer aspire one notebook. I am not very computer savvy, but know it should not take up to 2mins. to load a page. Seems to get better as it warms up. Please help before i throw...
View Article"Performance Options" dialog box appears every time I boot.
I spent about 3 hours searching around the internet and have tried the solutions I found - nothing is working. Frustrated. Please help.
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My system is using a lot of memory and CPU time so I looked at Task Manager to see where all the resources are being consumed. The problem is that the numbers don't match up. For instance under...
View ArticleWEI for SSD goes from 7.9 to 7.2 when RAM is doubled?!
About a year ago I installed a Crucial M500 and my HDD WEI went from 5.4 to 7.9. Yesterday I upgraded from 8GB (4x2) to 16GB (4x4) and of course Windows recognized the change so I re-ran the...
View Articleexplorer.exe freezes multiple times a day
I am trying to diagnose and fix an issue on a Windows 7 Pro x64 at my office. It is an Active Directory domain member. Several times a day explorer.exe freezes. The user has to go into Task Manager and...
View Articlecsrss.exe gradually eats up huge amounts of RAM ((2-6GB)
The process csrss.exe sometimes consume enormous amounts of memory. This only happens when I have been away from the computer. I move the mouse to wake up the monitor and find 90-98% RAM usage and the...
View ArticleStuck in Standard, Where is the Admin?, "Other User", and other things
Hello, This is an URGENT problem that I am having with this Windows 7, 64 BIT ULTRA MEGA AWESOME computer. This is probably the most unusual thing that has ever happened to the Windows community, and...
View ArticlePC freezes after start up
Hello My desktop has the following confguration:- Gigabyte LMT-USB3 MoBo Crucial MX100 256GB HDD Seagate - 500GB + 160 GB HDD Corsair Vengeance 8GB RAM AMD FX 6100 CPU Cooler Master PSU
View ArticleDefraggler?
After running a Piriform Defraggler real time and boot time defrag see 19% fragmentation,main file is System Vol.....now cannot get a 0% Frag like earlier, always 19%........any ideas how to fix?...
View ArticleGetting event ID 36888 sChannel in eventviewer
Hello, As the title says i am getting 36888 events in my eventviewer since 2 days. I have no idea what is causing it since i have not installed/updated anything during that time. De volgende melding...
View ArticleMy Desktop PC cant hold a precise DATE/TIME control
Windows 7 Home 64bit is my OS. The computer components are: - Asus Z87 Motherboard - Intel 4670k not overclocked - 2 x 8GB Kingston Blu DDR3 240 pin RAM - in 4 hours after re-setting time the time...
View ArticleHow to make your netbook faster like a laptop?
Is that even possible? My netbook is Toshiba NB205 and it's so slow. I don't want to sell it and change it for a laptop. This netbook is very special to me. Please tell me how to make it faster or...
View ArticleSchedule Windows housekeeping?
Every once in while (usually when I need to get something done quickly) after booting up, the disk drive will run incessantly, the computer will slow down to a glacial pace, especially when I try to...
View ArticleComputer restarts when playing graphic intensive games
System Specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 revision 1.2 F7 Ram: G.Skill Ripjaw 16GB 1600 DDR3 Graphics card: EVGA GTX 760 superclocked with ACX cooling CPU: AMD AM3+ 8150 Zambezi 8-core with...
View ArticleCan I remove pagefile.sys and hyberfil.sys..?
Hi I tried SpaceSniffer today and I found out that the two main "program" on my harddrive are pagefile.sys (31.9gb) and hiberfil.sys(23.9gb). I would like to know what are these files? Can I delete...
View ArticleWindows startup hanging 20% of time - on loading secdrv.sys?
As per the thread title I am experiencing regular issues on startup of windows 7. About 20% of the time startup will 'hang' just after my 'desktop' appears, but just before the little speaker icon and...
View ArticleRaid 5 lost D:/ assignment and now Windows 7 doesn't see format
I plugged an external harddrive that I had been using with my service laptop to check some files and the disaster began. It showed up as drive letters D: and G:. The problem is that my AMD 2+1 RAID 5...
View Articlehelp with hidden cpu and cpu fan behavior
Hello, I was playing an Amazon games digital download copy of Mount and Blade on my DELL E6410 c.2011 Lattitude when my CPU fan kicked on high for an hour (was addicted to the game and ambivalent to...
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