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How do I copy my running processes in task manager

I have tons of processes currently running in my task manager, some are duplicates or more. How do I make a copy of everything that is currently running?

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Startup items

I have a Toshiba Satellite A665 that my dad gave me. I moved everything to a flash drive that he wanted & used Toshiba Recovery to take it back to Factory Settings. I am now going through MSConfig...

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Unable to Disable Thumbnail Cache

Hello, I have followed the guides online for disabling the Thumbnail cache in Win7 (Specifically, the .db files generated when pictures are loaded in Windows Explorer) I disabled it via the tutorial on...

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Window 7 startup stuck ,help.

My laptop is dell Inspiron 1564. When I start my laptop , after the "windows is starting " logo , it will automatically disk check then I will get stuck during the diskcheck . Last time , it get stuck...

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Very slow to startup with Win 7 home premium (HP TouchSmart)

I bought 2 new computers, both HP windows 7 home premium, TouchSmart all in 1 computers. 1 works perfectly and the other takes about 10 minutes to get past the black screen that says "Starting...

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How do I remove a boot flag from a device?

I'm trying to reformat an SD that I used for a Raspberry Pi but the main partition has a boot flag. Windows thinks the user is an idiot so I can't delete that partition so I can join it up with the...

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list all files, by size, larger than a specified size?

I am running out of space on my system drive (120GB SSD with < 6GB remaining). It happened in only 12 months. I'd like to know where all that space went, which files are using it. So I'm looking for...

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windows aero is slow sometimes after pc boot

well this is weird....sometimes when i start up my pc the windows seven aero effects are real slow. they are smooth and not stuttering but just mega slow. when logging in the fade out and fade in takes...

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How to read SFC log?

Hi everybody! I'm new here so please be patient and sympathetic to me....LOL!! I've just used the SFC scannow prompt command because my (W7 Ultimate SP1 32 bit) system didn't work properly over the...

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Sudden PC crashes + USB Port problems

Ok, as I already said in another thread, I've been experiencing 2 annoying and weird issues over the past few months: 1) Sometimes my laptop (Acer Aspire 5738G running W7 Ultimate SP1 x86 as OS)...

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very odd problem with regedit

When i run regedit with my windows 7(home premium), i have found very odd entry/file. Path is in regedit:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ATI technologies/install/South bridge/ATI_AHCI_RAID. (Look picture "ati")...

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Compaq cq60 high cpu usage

Hello I have a Compaq cq60 107ea with windows 7 professional installed. I wanted to play richard burns rally with the rallye sim mod with i installed, after this install my laptop cpu uasge started to...

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C: Drive Getting Full -- Which Files Can I Delete

Running Windows7 Home Premium 64-bit that I loaded 2½ years ago on a 60 GB solid-state drive. Now the drive is almost full (maybe due to multiple update files?). I moved some programs to have a slave...

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Graphics WEI changed from 6 to 7.3 up after Re-assesment

After I installed the extra 2GB to my 4GB RAM, I clean installed (from x86) to Win 7 x64. My first WEI score was 6.0 , after a reassessment Desktop and also Gaming WEI score went up to 7.3! Graphics...

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Starting Windows too long

I've noticed during my boot ups, that when it comes to the Starting Windows disiplay, it hangs up for about 40 seconds before going into the sign in window. How can I decrease the time duration in...

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system goes back to logon screen when i hibernate

hello, I'm using a Dell Inspiron 5110 with windows 7 Home Premium. Whenever i choose to hibernate this system, all that happens is the screen dims to black for a moment, and then the log in screen...

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Time and Date not visible in Taskbar

Hello, i just restarted my computer, did not install anything new and the taskbar now does not show date or time. I tried to increase the size of the taskbar to 3 rows but it still does not show date...

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sadaptor.dll

How to remove sadaptor.dll error pop up? Please help.

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Black screen no cursor, hanging after log in, system restore does not

I've been having problems with my laptop. One day it randomly turned itself off and once I turned it on I went to log on and it just hung at the welcome screen with the light blue spinner. Let me keep...

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Laptop Cuts Out On Startup

My girlfriends laptop (my old laptop) is an HP Pavilion dv3-2310ea. It's recently started cutting out (completely turns off as though the battery has been pulled) when in use, but now it's got so bad i...

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