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Hi every one, as I have nothing to do these days, thought to explore my system. Started of by installing ssd and clean copy of windows with the help of you guys on this bestest forum. The next thing I...
View ArticleAble to Boot from Win7 disk but not HDD
This morning my PC failed to boot after a re-start. Repair/Restore did not work. I set Bios to boot from CD-Rom and inserted original Win 7 disk. Booted fine and everything looks as if noting happened....
View ArticleCPU behaving strange, running at 100%, unless Task manager is open
My computer has been behaving quite strange for a while. My computer registers CPU usage at 100%. A desktop gadget that monitors my CPU says that all 4 cores are at 100%. However, the computer doesn't...
View ArticleCan't use sleep or hibernate
I have a dell XPS1702x laptop Win7 64, this problem came up in the last 5 days after I installed a logitech M705 mouse and software.When ever I put my laptop in sleep or hibernate and start up again I...
View ArticleWindows Task Scheduler is grayed out
I want to defragment my hard drive but it wont let me due to the task scheduler being disabled. I go to open up the task scheduler and it says "The remote computer was not found" and it opens the...
View ArticleIssues with use of RAM.
When I used to log on to my computer my CPU meter used to always read that there was only <10% of RAM in use when I was idle. Now when I am idle on the home screen it always reads that I am using...
View Articleincrease PC Performance
is there a free program which can fix registery errors and other things to enhance PC performance thanks in advance
View ArticleHardware reserved memory issue (fixes after reboot)
Hello, I have this strange issue. When i turn on my pc at first it has half of the memory as "hardware reserved". And when i reboot my device, things go back to normal. It's been annoying for a while,...
View ArticleCheck Disk Force Dismount
Hello... i have been wondering .. i have 2 HDs installed in my PC... one which is labeled C: is for the system while the other which is labeled D: is for personal files e.g. documents, pictures, music...
View ArticleChanging Drive Letter of Boot/Active partition
Hi, The drive letter of my boot/active Win7 partition should be C:, but in my case it isn't; the boot/active partition drive letter is F. I've tried to move heaven and earth to change the drive letter...
View Articlestore Thumbnails INSIDE folder - portable
I have several media folders with lots of large jpg, bmp and mp4 files stored on a USB Stick. If I plug the stick in on another computer it takes a very long time until all the thumbnails for the files...
View ArticleShow hidden system files override - possible?
Is it possible to manually override the "show hidden system files" setting for some handpicked files? Something like a "superhidden" setting? I generally have hidden files visible all the time. But...
View ArticleNon repairable files
I just did a fresh install because I had corrupt files sfc could not fix. I have corrupt non fixable files again, 2 days after the install. I have no idea what the cbs.log means, can someone shed some...
View ArticleSolved Save process priority and affinity
Hello, I'm running a few gameservers myself on Windows Server 2008 R2 but I'm wondering if it's possible to make my system recognize that the process was ran earlier, and it'll apply the correct...
View ArticleProblems after windows update
Can anyone help me with this problem that I am having? I just did the most recent windows 7 updates and now my computer is running extremely slow. My CPU usage/RAM meter is through the roof when I am...
View ArticleHow do I turn this 'blue & yellow" shield annoyance off??
How do I turn this 'blue & yellow" shield annoyance off??
View ArticleHow do I kill standby memory?
Here is my problem: I want to disable standby memory. *Reasons* There are several reasons why it should be disabled: * Windows reads hard drive to fill cache. Not only it stores files which are being...
View ArticleSolved Need advice on cpu check. Huge drop in wei score. Perplexed.
Was looking at another thread earlier and just as a lark reran my wei index. Imagine my surprise when my processor score went from this Attachment 246660...
View ArticleSolved LocalMLS Rearing it's ugly head again
So I was running out of space on my boot drive, so I ran WinDirStat. I was surprised by the HUGE size of the MS Media player Art Cache - *11.1GB worth* Now I can go and clear that sucker out - I...
View ArticlePC boots up fine, slows down, becomes normal after a few minutes
So here's my dilemma and I know I've never heard of this happening before. I have 2 internal drives in my tower, those being C: (main drive, obviously) and F:. F: was being a bit skittish so I decided...
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