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sfc scannow still has corrupt files after replacing them

I've been having trouble with my computer freezing after I start my computer and when I'm watching videos on YouTube. I've tried using both of these commands sfc /scannow & sfc /verifyonly. The...

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System Files Scanning Errors

I performed an sfc /scannow because I thought I was having a few issues at starting, shutting down and also with explorer.exe. The final reply was that there were some issues that sfc could not repair....

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msconfig not "holding" changes

msconfig not "holding" changes Recently, I had to go into Avast to re-TurnOff Grimefighter, Software Updater, and so on. I'm wondering if Grimefighter fiddled before I caught it. _msconfig will not...

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Customizing Autoplay

Hi, I have an IDE hard drive hooked-up to my computer as a storage drive only; connected by USB via a Rosewill external drive adapter. Whenever I turn the drive on, Auto-play pops up asking 'what to...

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SFC corrupt system files

Hi All, I have run scf /scannow 5 times and still unable to repair system files. Attached is the sfcdetails.txt file. Is anyone able to help me repair the corrupt files, before I attempt a 'repair...

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Slow!!!

Why is my computer slow, i do regular scans on it. i have 12gb of ram and 1tb hard drive. Any suggestions??

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Conflicting Check Disk Results

Hi, Yesterday I ran a 'read only' disk check using Tweaking.com Windows Repair and got the following result: "The master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute is incorrect. The Volume Bitmap is...

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Laptop running extremely slow after format C: and reinstall windows 7

Hi I formated C: and reinstalled a win 7 x64 bit. It works good after installing, but after some time when doing windows update, avast AV, installing ms office, adobe, deamon tools, drivers, google...

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Must All of these Directories Remain in the PATH Environment String?

The PATH environment string on my Windows 7 X64 machine contains 25 directory names, many of which I suspect would not be missed if I removed them. Of particular interest are the following: Six (count...

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All new Hardware Custom build Freezes requiring hard reboot

Hey guys, I have a PC that was custom built with all new hardware, and I'm getting hard freezes anywhere from once a day to once a month. It happens while doing anything from watching a movie, to just...

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Suddenly 400 GB of free space on C drive

I have a 1TB C drive (boot drive) that has been gradually filling up until I had less than 40 GB free. Today I checked the properties of C and saw that it suddenly has 444GB of free space! I had been...

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Abnormal RAM usage / reported usage

Hi, I have 8GB of RAM (7.90 usable) and I get "Your computer is running low on RAM" messages, up to the point where Windows asks me to close programs or even closes some. The problem is I don't see...

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Explorer.exe doesn´t work anymore, sfcscan shows some fails

Hey guys, for a few days I wanted to clean my laptop from some programs I doesn´t use anymore. So I deleted Fifa 13 and some other programs which are not important for me. Probably there was an...

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Slow startup - event traces

Each time I start up Windows 7 Pro x64, I get a pop-up warning headed "Traces are enabled - events log". The text disappears too quickly for me to get it exactly, but it says something about how this...

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SFC reports corrupt files but CBS Log looks clean

I ran sfc /scannow and got the message "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix .... ... Details are included in the CBS.Log ..... When I look at my CBS log I don't see...

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How can all cores on a hyperthreaded CPU go to 100%

Hi, you know when you goto Task Manager, it shows you by default all cores (ie physical & hyperthreaded) on the system? Given the way hyperthreading works is by having a second set of registers for...

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Solved Power plan?

Any changes you expert would recommend to the screenshots. Thanks.

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Error 0xc000007b on every video game launch except AC Unity

Hi, everyone ! Having a bit of trouble and it's become quite frustrating. Trying everything before doing the ole' Win7 reinstall. I started replaying Arkham City again in February and it worked fine. A...

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C: Drive Increasing and Decreasing!

*After installing Bluestacks I realize I didn't have enough space to and had 0 gigs in my C drive, a few minutes later I deleted Bluestacks and a few other things to free some space... now all the...

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PC slow - don't know why

Yesterday my PC was fine. Worked perfectly. Switched it of and went to bed. Today there's something horribly wrong. It takes longer to boot up And then it hangs while doing the simplest task. Eg: open...

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