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Trying to move Users and ProgramData to a different drive

I'm trying to move Users and ProgramData to a different drive. I searched the Net and tried this and that with no luck, whatsoever.. They suggest I move the folders to a different drive and create...

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windows 7 ultimate 64bit running far to slow.

I have recently upgrade from win7 home premium to win7 ultimate. I upgrade due to my home premium running far to slow, it would take at least 20minutes to boot up and wouldn't open up programs when...

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Pagefile reverts back

Im trying to get the best virtual ram usage for my video editing system (WIN7 32BIT 4gB RAM) so I've taken the advice of some and switched the virtual ram over to another drive from that of C (boot)...

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Solved Creating a shortcut to "turn off display"

I want to automate four steps to change the time it takes to turn off the display. I do this at least twice a day. Instead of going through the four steps: personalize, screen saver, change power...

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Aer Aspire 5750 Windows 7 64bit running slow

I've noticed over the last few weeks that my laptop is running slower than usual. It's 7 months old. I'm not to sure exactly what is causing this i'm not very computer savey and could use some help...

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Slow Computer

Hi! My computer is running slow lately. I tried to defrag yesterday and it became faster, but now it's quite slow again. My physical memory is almost always at 90% because of Chrome, and it takes a few...

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Slow to boot, black screen before desktop

Hi all, Rather strange problem. My MacBook running windows is slow to boot. It hasn't always been like this. After login I get a black screen for a few minutes before eventually showing the desktop. I...

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Blue Screen Of Death Occurring Too Often!

Ok. So the past 3 days my computer has encountered the FAMOUS BSOD.... 5 TIMES!!!!! I have not been doing anything different so why would it randomly start BSODing? The only things I have done...

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How to test PC speed?

I got a new Dell. Wanna know how to test it? Any tools/app can give it a score?

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Windows 7 keeps losing index of RAID volume

I have a 4-disc enclosure set up as a single RAID volume, attached to a desktop running Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit. About every 2 or 3 weeks, I must reindex this volume, because it simply stops...

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Reduce Windows 7 memory footprint

I have a netbook with 1 GB of RAM and Windows 7 Starter and it still eats lots of memory without any background program despite reading all tutorials on the internet (kill any non crucial background...

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How do you fix corrupted files found by SFC /SCANNOW?

I am using Windows 7 Professional Professional. About 2 weeks ago my machine started "not responding" when I would run my various software. It progressed to a severe condition and I would have to power...

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Windows not booting. Running chkdsk from DVD taking days.

Hi, I'm currently having problems getting Windows started on a laptop. Booting up gets to the point where it says "Windows loading files" before it bails with an error 0xc00000e9. I tried using startup...

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how to know my actual performance ?

How do I know if my PC is running at its full speed/ performance?

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Hybrid Sleep

I used to have a feature called Hybrid sleep but now all I have is sleep. I have the proper settings in the BIOS S3 , I just do not know what happened to it? Any help with this would be appreciated.

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Computer won't sleep or hybernate

I did a clean install of Win 7 pro a couple of months ago and the computer has been awake ever since. I went to control panel/hardware and sound/power options and chose "Power Saver." When still no...

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Computer slows significantly several minutes after windows login

Please help me. My laptop slows down significantly several minutes after login. What I did is I clicked the windows orb. It would load but only after about 1 minute. I've tried booting in SafeMode and...

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r windows 7 freezing up randomly?

I Searched though many threads has anyone come up with a solution for windows 7 freezing up randomly? thanks

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Consent.exe

There was another thread, from last year, that went like this: - I have 10 consent.exe in my task manager ( I think one extra comes up everytime i try to run an exe file ) - When I try to end the...

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system file checker

long story short l have a external drive which keeps on telling me to scan it, l havent the space to backup the content on it and reformat etc and whenever l use the file system scanning tools it seems...

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