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About 15 GB gone from free space on OS drive?

Every now and then it seems that I've lost app. 15 GB of free space on the OS drive - SSD 120 GB. Tried Win Disk Cleanup, but it doesn't seem to respond. And it's NOT because I've installed new apps......

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Shortcuts disappear

HP laptop, Win 7. IE, Pale Moon, Thunderbird, Open Office, Notepad are the most common programs I run. IE, Pale Moon and Thunderbird are running at all times. Background programs are CoffeeCup LockBox....

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Several Processes Delaying Logon

I have a problem with slow startup; specifically, logon. Boots quick, sits at Welcome screen for about 30 seconds (on an SSD), everything after that is also quick. Event Viewer shows:

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sfc /scannow cannot fix corrupt MSDTS.LOG and NSLOOKUP.EXE

don't know how to proceed. Googled issue, couldn't find anything that resolves issue. Did try repair install. Had issue with windows not genuine after repair install, but it did fix problems sfc...

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PC intermittently becomes unresponsive with constant disk activity

Hi, My wife's HP desktop intermittently becomes very slow and / or unresponsive. When in this state I notice that the HDD activity LED is continuously on. After a time (up to 4-5 minutes) the LED...

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Windows 7 slow to start but only after overnight shutdown

Weird one this, and I'm asking on behalf of a friend so there may be some questions that I can't answer immediately, but my friend is running a Windows 7 PC, (not sure which edition), and he is...

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Windows system file seems to have crashed

Hello 2' time this week that this occur My system is always running. When I came back to work this morning,, some of the running software where closed and other not responding. When I tried to close...

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How restore system files when System File Checker won't work

I have run System File Checker (sfc) and it found many files that were corrupt and could not be repaired. My PC appears to be running fine - but I am anal about repairing anything that is wrong on my...

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Windows 7 100% Highest Active and slow Response Time

Hi I am new to this forum and sorry if I make something mistakes. My Windows 7 Laptop is very slow against with the PC spec. Opening folder take a while to list down the files. Mouse clicking also take...

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Solved Page file?

Is this pattern of drive distribution and page file fine on a fresh install of W7 Pro? Thanks.

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the dwindling free space on my C

hello ! I am for ever fighting to retain free space on C (it's a 120 Gb SSD) I deleted the hibernation file (thanks to some reading I did here) and I keep trying to contain the restore points usage to...

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Battery health?

Any app to check laptops battery health, info etc? Thanks.

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Why my Laptop Processes stay high

Hi, I want to know what could be the reason for it. It always stay around 80% to 90% even I have only running one application. My CPU is stay on very low and memory as well. Thanks, RR

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"context menus" and non-maximized windows disappear

When I open a "context window" (e.g., task manager, print menu, etc.) or one that is not maximized, the window disappears almost immediately behind other open windows and the only way I can act on it...

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SFC /SCANNOW fails, also will not perform an in place upgrade..

PC was brought to me because it wouldn't run windows updates, windows quit installaing them about 3 mos ago. Tried the system file checker reports bad files but was unable to repair them, then after...

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System keeps freezing at normal boot after 3-5 minutes

Im new here so im sorry if this isn´t the correct place to post this. So lately this is what´s been happening, everytime i boot in normal mode i wait for the progams and things to load up but...

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Hp Pavilion dv7 Laptop not Working after corrupt registry

Hi everyone. I'm a girl who is semi Computer literate and by that i just mean that I've edited keys or values in my registry (using someone else s instructions) with great success. Recently i have been...

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Disk Mang. would not start VDS

When trying to create a Ramdisk, "I think" thats when it happened, I go into DM, Storage, it says; DM (local), Snap in, Virtual Disk Manager. I click on that and I get the message, "Disk Mang would not...

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High Nonpaged Pool value right after bootup, and it's still counting

Hello, first time joining and posting in this forum. So, my computer somehow have a Nonpaged Pool value of 1300 in the task manager every time I boot into it, and it will continue to grow till it takes...

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Ran SFC Scan and found a corrupt file . Windows Explorer keeps crashin

Windows Explorer has stopped working error? I looked up how to fix it and it said to run a SFC scan. It says it cannot fix the error so I did a screen shot of the cmd and attached the cbs.log in rar...

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