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Hard drive partition: adding free space back to c: drive

Hi everyone, I installed Ubuntu on my computer a few months ago and created another partition for it on my 1TB hard drive. I didn't really care for Ubuntu so I decided to delete the partition it was...

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Windows 7 Sleep question something weird going on. Help

Hi all new here and nice to be a member. I was wanting some help for windows 7 sleep option as theres something weird going on. I have my windows 7 server computer set to go to sleep after 20 min and...

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Windows 7 64bit - mmc cannot open the file eventvwr

All of a sudden I cannot run the eventvwr.msc! I have searched everywhere and came up mostly with solutions for winxp. regsvr32 msxml3.dll didn't do the trick (most common encountered solution). Could...

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CPU Very slow suddenly? CPUZ results

I've been having issues with the speed of my computer, it isn't a virus, I know this. So I've been looking into it and on CPU-z my ram is at 665 MHz and my cpu is at 3392 MHz My ram should be at 1600...

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Computer Slows down after a couple of hours of use: No more info

Hi, This has been baffling me for at least a month now, my PC will randomly start to slow down after a few hours (2-4) of being used. This began to happen randomly and after no new software or updates...

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chkdsk runs on startup

Hi, I just started up my Toshiba laptop after it overheated and shut down, and Windows showed the Starting Windows screen, then I got a black screen with chkdsk running on it. Does anyone know why that...

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Very slow startup 5 min+ Windows 7 ultimate 64bit

Been having an issue lately with windows 7 taking a huge dump beginning at the "starting windows" screen after wards it can take upwards to 5-7 min just to get to the log in screen. I have done a diag...

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Deleting some files, are they save

I am looking to clear up some files on my computer, not so much to save space, rather because I like my file systems to be nice and neat :P. Here are the files in question: *C:\AMD* - This one appears...

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Solved removing program compatibility assistant changes?

Microsoft's Program Compatibility Assistant popped up and made changes to my system after a photoshop cs6 crash. Since the PCA, according to MS, is designed to make older programs compatible to MS's...

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See what background programs are running at a given time in Windows 7?

Is there a way to check directly and see what all background programs are running in Windows 7 Home Premium?? :geek::confused::geek: Thanks in advance!! ;)

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Why are two gigs of memory being used?

Hi i don't get why 2 gigs of my memory are being used i have 4 gigs and when i am not running anything but google chrome my laptop is using up 2.50-2.00 gigs of memory and i only have about 4 tabs open...

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Solved Overclocking..Need a little help

hey guys right now im stuck and ive seen video's about getting there Intel Pentium duel core E5700 processor overclocked from 3.00ghz to 3.4ghz..i was wondering how do i go about this as im a complete...

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Disk Defragmernter doesn't check C:

I've used the Win 7 built in Disk Defragmenter since day one. Noticed about two months ago that it is not checking C:. It checks the other included drives (an external HDD and a Recovery drive) on...

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Computer updated during defrag, what to do next?

Last night I set my computer to defragment my hard drive, forgetting that earlier that day I had enabled automatic updates due to a university policy that forces you to enable automatic updates to...

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long boot....unlocked system file by accident cant remember what file

well i unlocked a system locked (pad lock symbol) folder by accident looking for something else and since than the following issues are observed. and i don't remember the folder =( when the system...

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Can't Save or Export msinfo32

I can run msinfo32 OK but when I try to save or export, it hangs at a page that says "refreshing system info...printing". I let it run over an hour before I stopped it. I have saved msinfo32 in the...

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Why is so much of my ram being used?

I have 4 gigs of ram and for some reason 2 gigs are being used for no reason im not running any programs but chrome and utorrent i don't get it i used AVG to lower the start up programs but since then...

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Solved Improve Windows 7 performance

Can anyone supply me with the link to Brink's Improve Win 7 performance? Thanks In advance. Ich

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Can't boot into Windows 7 Repair Disc

Hello Seven Forums users, I just created a system repair disc by clicking "Create a system repair disc" on my computer. The disc was successfully created, then I went to boot it up in VirtualBox and I...

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Sony Computer randomly changing brightness.

I got a Sony Computer about a year ago and it's been randomly changing my brightness out of no where. Generally it moves it two below whatever I set it as and then changes it back to whatever I have...

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