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How to free up plenty of disk space?

So lately my computer has been suffering from having very little space on the C: drive. It's usually always hovering around less than 1GB of free space. It's a 60GB SSD with Windows, Nvidia drivers,...

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Solved Unable to run SFC after failed system restore

Hey folks, long time no see. Kind of in a bind here. Had a power outage during a system restore on a unit here. It won't boot, the registry appears intact and start up repair is telling me a corrupt...

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SSDP Discovery - Safe to disable?

Hi, I was wondering if you can safely disable the SSDP Discovery service in Windows 7? Because I don't use UPnP and I have it disabled in my router. I also have turned off the Network Discovery plus I...

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sfc /scannow - unable to fix corrupt files

I've run the scanner twice - it keeps finding errors but is apparently unable to fix them. I've added the log file in the attachment, any help would be greatly appreciated :)

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Too many processes, modules and services running simultaneously on pc

Hello everybody, I have discovered a large number of modules (291), drivers (280), services (180) etc running on my computer without my explicit permission. What is an average number of modules and...

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Slowed boot time

As seen in the attachment, my boot time wasn't too bad before installing Avast! Internet Security. But after, my boot time is longer than I would like. I've always had good protection w/Avast! &...

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svchost.exe using 12 GB of RAM? 4000/s hardware faults?

I'm having issues with bad computer performance, sluggishness and extremely high memory usage in svchost.exe. I am struggling to find the source of the issue, though I know it exists, finding the exact...

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I Did a scannow/sfc ..Results

I did a SFC /Scannow today on my windows 7 home premium.And would it be possible for someone to have a look at the results and tell me if they are okay or does the pc need attention.Please. Thank You.

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Bootup into Windows 7 is lagging terrible after BIOS Post - Any Advise

I usually reimage my computers every year using Norton Ghost. I fell behind the past couple of years and just kept working on the old installation. Just past 2 years, I began to see have some issues...

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WmiPrvSE.exe and services.exe strange CPU usage.

I recently experienced strange CPU usage from two processes I never heard of before, namely: C:\Windows\System32\services.exe C:\Windows\System32\wbem\WmiPrvSE.exe This processes are taking 5%-15% for...

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PC wont load windows 7, auto reboot no error

Hello everyone, I've just returned from my vacation and my home pc won't load windows anymore. The computer is a special custom build pc which allows you to switch your harddrive easily when it's...

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Large Windows 7 Installer and winsxs Folders - 50% of partition

Greetings! I've been having trouble for several months now with my file folders getting too large. Normally, I can clean up my temporary folders with cCleaner or by using the Disc Cleanup tool. This...

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Huge chunk of Hard Drive Free Space Missing

Hello all. I could really use some help. I have a TB hard drive with 917 GB of actual space. But right now, I only have 27 GB free. Why? Because SOMETHING happened and now 602 GB of space has gone UP...

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54 Task Scheduler corrupt or tampered with tasks. Best way to fix?

Task Scheduler seemed to be running fine, I then upgraded to W10. Too many problems brought me back to W7 64 Pro. Task Scheduler then seemed to fail. I tried to open TS and had to go through 54...

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Your computer is low on memory

Hello, my computer is running too slowly, so I tried several tricks to make it run faster. the best trick that worked for me is to set 1023 in the virtual memory,take a look at the picture. after that...

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Computer running incredibly slow as of today. Windows apps not respond

So as of today I turned on my computer as normal and everything is running incredibly slowly. Everything takes forever to load and stops responding within a few seconds. I managed to open the System...

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Help me please with reading my sfcdetails.txt

My system is corrupt, i cant understand why. I check sfc /scannow, there are stop in 20%. i'm create sfcdetails by using this command Code: --------- findstr /c:»[SR]» %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log...

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Incredibly slow start of Windows 7 Ultimate , 64 bit- 5 minutes!

Hi I have following problem: It takes 5 minutes from turning Pc on to the appearance of the icons on the desktop -I know that this not normal and I find very frustrating. I have this problem for a...

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Windows Resource Protection could not perform requested op

Got the old 'Windows Resource Protection could not perform requested op'. Attached is a sfcdetails.txt showing bad or missing dll's for languages not used on this machine. Do not know whether sfc error...

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Should I be worried about this .NET Runtime Optimization service error

*My desktop "crashed" a few minutes ago, second time I've caught it in the act; all my icons disappeared from desktop and taskbar, even my internet browser closed then they all refreshed. I was...

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