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What is the cause of this corruption in the taskbar?

Hi, i have had this problem for a couple of days till now, when i pass the mouse over the small windows that appear from the running programs in the taskbar, it gets like * bars and lines *over these...

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Hibernate

Hello. I hibernate my computer., When I turn it on and get into Windows, it can not do anything for 30 seconds. At this time the hard drive light is off., But the pages that were open before hibernate...

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Solved win 7 x86 4GB RAM only 2.6 usable

Hello, I recently bought an Acer Aspire one laptop with 4GB RAM memory installed. I 've installed windows 7 x86. It says that there are ony 2.6 GB usable. Can anyone tell me what to do. Because, as far...

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Running out of room

It seems I'm running out of disk space in the C: drive. I have a Dell Optiplex 760, Dual-Partitioned tower using Windows 7 Pro OS and 64-bit. Other than removing any unnecessary programs, using...

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HP pavilion frequently hangs up

Hi All Long time no see guys:p. I am helping out a friend of mine with her laptop issues and using my account and teamviewer to post a thread for her. Anyways my friend has HP pavilion laptop which...

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Computer runing extremeley slow

Help please.:cry: My computer is running extremely slow. I have carried out a full computer scan in Safe Mode using Super Anti Spy, AVG and MalwareBytes, all of which have not found any infections....

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How to fix "not responding" problem in all programs and "lost updates"

It's been a month since my laptop gone wrong. All programs doesn't run properly, and stop working many times. Media Player, Office, Internet explorer, all stop working frequently, and I have to wait...

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Slow boot after desktop shows but not before, windows x64

So as the title says, for some reason this pc has started to take a few minutes to boot after the desktop shows up but before that the system boots fast. Have a 1tb seagate sata3 drive as the main...

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Deleting old win folder

I have a folder from when I first installed Win 7 that contains my old windows. It a over 13 GB and I want to remove it as it's been sitting around for 4 years now. When I try to remove it I get the...

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Speeding up USB transfers.

Hotfix (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2581464) Instructions (http://www.sevenforums.com/news/180768-boost-windows-7-sp1-usb-storage-devices-performance-increasing-maxi-5.html#post2303593) Works for...

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After sleep, hangs for a while

After waking laptop, (Win 7, 64 bit, dual core 2.2Ghz, 4G RAM and 500GHD), it takes about 1-2 minutes for pc to function normally. Before this time, it is as if the pc had a Pentium1 and was struggling...

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Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit suddenly unusable?

Hi everyone, I turned on my PC a while ago to find out it isn't working as it should. To put it bluntly, I can't load anything at all without waiting at least 5 minutes. Even loading pages on Chrome...

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Very high CPU usage, causing very high laptop CPU temps (90c idle)

This problem began yesterday. I noticed my CPU was at 90C constantly with very high CPU usage (>50%). I had no major programs running. I rebooted several times and the program persisted. 1. I went...

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physical memory cached over 6gb

Today I have been having a problem with ram. Its cached 5-6gb/8gb. when usually its 2-4gb/8gb. Because that PC seems to be slower when I move mouse., mouse cursor seems to freeze for sec... Is here any...

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Trimming down W7HPx64 with RT7lite and DISM

Hi, NB: This is not a thread discussing or advocating piracy or illegal actions, though it may initially appear so. Quite the opposite in fact. I recently installed Tiny7, a stripped-down version of...

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Freezing just after log on

Working on a Toshiba, windows 7, 64 bit, home premium. After the type in username and password screen, it logs on normally, loads the desktop (and other junk programs that I will remove when I get...

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sfc /scannow found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them...

Hi guys Running genuine Win7 Pro x64 on a fairly new laptop, Core i7. Recently I've had problems with the laptop shutting down when I close the lid, and then giving me the "Couldn't shut down...

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Slow Start Up

Gooday all. I was having a look around the site to see if I could find a post related to my problem, ie, slow boot up. One of the suggestions was in MSCONFIG have a look at the start up tab and see how...

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Second screen behaves REALLY slow!

Last night, my daughter was on Sporicle.com [I thinks] and was playing a game on it. When she tried to type, it was VERY slow, sometimes taking up to a MINUTE to show the 5 chars that she typed....

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Solved PC slowed down after changing thermal paste.

Hi guys, Basically I removed the old thermal paste from my CPU (had this computer awhile now and the old thermal paste seemed to have dried up) as my computer had been overheating lately I figured this...

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