Confused about defrag
One person says "Windows 7 does a fine job of defrag on it's own so don't manually defrag", then someone else says "manually run the defrag in 7", someone else recommends 3rd party defrag....
View ArticleIs force quitting bad for your laptop?
Sometimes when I leave my computer on for too long (maybe over 24 hours? I'm not sure) it becomes slow. So I try to turn it off and reboot but sometimes it's too slow to even shut down. So I force shut...
View Articlewindows 7, 64, safe mode, windows installer not working after regedit
I followed these steps to enable it: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/117840-uninstall-remove-software-safe-mode.html Keep getting error 1084. I am working in safe mode w/networking. Really, the...
View ArticleGlobal fonts management issue
I recently switched from Windows XP to Windows 7 and i find big difference in the default fonts that win 7 is using in comparison with XP. I mean win 7 fonts are real bad. I guess this can be fixed but...
View Article2 hard drive partitions I wish to combine into 1
My hard drive currently has a C drive and a new volume D plus a new volume E partition. How do I combine C and D into one partition and keep new volume E (or whatever it now becomes renamed)? D: would...
View ArticleSoftware for reading CPU/GPU temperatures
Hi all, long-time lurker first time poster. I've been having troubles running games the past couple days and would like to check my hardware temperatures - most threads regarding this seem to be at...
View ArticleVariable SLEEP behavior.
Running Win 7 Home Premium on a custom desktop, all updates applied. Regardless of what happens to be running at the time, when I issue the SLEEP command at night, the HD stops spinning, the monitor...
View ArticleWindows 7/8 transcluent selection rectangle slow and lag
Hi, has any of you don't have translucent selection rectangle slow and laggy on Windows 7/8 ? I have tested many Windows 7 and 8 machines and on all of them there is lag and selection box is slow. Lag...
View ArticleSomebody please help a poor soul with severe graphical crashes!
First off, I'm fairly new to owning and running my own PC. For years I made do with the family home computer and Playstation, but since I bought my own rig at the beginning of this year I've constantly...
View ArticleDefrag on SSHD
Now that I have SSHD installed, I wonder if defrag should be any different than regular HDD. I just do not want to defrag SSD part. So far did not come across anything that will give me access to it,...
View ArticleWhere is my disk space going?
I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit operating system with an Intel 80GB SSD where I have the Windows 7 operating system, and a 3TB Western Digital SATA drive for all of my non-program files. The...
View ArticlePossible memory leak on an idle computer
Hi everyone, I have an Asus laptop (N55SL) with Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) that I upgraded from 4Gb of RAM to 12 Gb about a year ago. I reinstalled the OS three months ago, and I tried to keep the...
View ArticleWindow7 errors LogonUI.exe- entry point not found
LogonUI.exe- entry point not found the procedure entry point Btsdk_BLEG.GetProximityLockState could not be located in the dinamic link library BsSDK.dll Please help me :huh:
View ArticleHow can I avoid my PC hibernating after sleeping for five minutes?
My desktop PC (Windows 8) goes into hibernation after a few minutes sleep. I'd rather it didn't go into hibernation, but remain in sleep mode. I see no option to change this in Power Options >...
View ArticleDuring sleep or hibernate mode Laptop crashes
Hey, everybody! I have this fiddly problem. For a while Ive tried to find solution for it from surfing through different forums, but with no luck I decided to get down with my first post in IT forums....
View ArticleNo Level Indicator When Using Keyboard Audio Volume Controls
Guess what guys ? I have a new problem ! Imagine that.I've googled for answers and closest I came was the Dell quickset app.But,after downloading 3 versions (the last one actually installed) my problem...
View ArticleLaptop is slow after Conexant CX20671 Sound Card Driver Update
Hi..I really need help with this urgently!!! I recently formatted my laptop and everything was running really fast and smooth. After I got the laptop back after formatting, sound card driver Conexant...
View ArticleVery high RAM usage Rundll32.exe
When I looked at task manager, it shows Rundll32.exe at 1,075,576 K of memory, I traced it back into SysWOW64. I ran a scan in cmd, to check for mem errors, nothing is wrong. What is causing this?:huh:
View ArticleLatop locks out automatically after inactivity (plugged in)
Hello, Recently I have found that my laptop computer locks (displays login screen) after a set amount of time. I found this strange as I have disabled hybrid sleep in my power settings, disabled sleep...
View ArticleMy Computer wakes me up in the middle of the night!
Ok here is the thing. I'm sleeping like zzz then all of a sudden I hear a wirrr and realise my computer is turned on and making noises sounding like its reading a card in the disk drive. It sometimes...
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