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OS install size growing alarmingly

W7 was in and running for about 9 months ... as part of a bug fix investigation had to do a clean install It is W7 64 bit Ultimate +Sp1 on a 120GB SSD (PC has 16GB Physical RAM and i5 processor)...

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Advanced testing, completely freeing up cores

Hi all, I have the unique misfortune of owning a laptop that is overpowered for its chassis, and causes annoyances when trying to utilize its power to maximum capacity. To ensure optimum performance,...

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Method to enhance laptop battery life and increase discharge cycles.

I have changed two batteries since I purchased my Laptop. I bought it 15 months back. So, I have been going through the things that make my laptop batteries' life short. After Reading many articles...

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When do Startup Repair, it goes to Non-sytem disk or disk error

Hi guys, yesterday I installed Toce Race Driver 3 and it wanted to restart notebook. Then windows instead of normal start goes to this screen: Image:...

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high CPU performance issue

i am facing this problem for last 7/10 days, whenever i run any software such as mediaplayer/km player or even when i run chrome ... my system process jumps to 99% - 100% and it stays there and at this...

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Performance Monitor set to log data has no results

I am a frequent user of perfmon.exe. However since the upgrade to Windows 7 I have found it to have many problems. One is that after a remote system performance counter data collection, there is no...

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System Interrupts Spiking CPU

i have a process called System Interrupts in performance monitor that us spiking the CPU from 0-10% usage. what is this process and how can i fix this? this is a brandy new install of windows and all...

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windows 7 start only in safe mode and the repair option is missing

Hi first of all sorry for my bad English... I can not start the computer in normal mode, only in safe mode I tried system restore but still I can not run Windows 7 in normal mode When I press f8 at...

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Disk Activity

i have a fresh install of W7 Pro 64 and finally got everything up and running on my new SSD. however, i get a lot of random disk activity. my Disk light on the front of my PC flashes quite a bit...

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Win7x64 only detects 3.7 GB RAM with Maximum memory

Hello. This is a very small and simple question, but it troubles me not to find an answer. As you can see, my Windows detects only *3.7 GB of RAM* when in total there should be a complete (almost)...

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How to modify application specific security settings

The DistributedCom error message appears in Event Viewer on ALL my personal computers only the CLSID, APPID and NT SIDs change. I know the CLSID and APPID, how can I identify the software these numbers...

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Programs hang in task manager

Hi guys, A few days ago some of my programs hanged in task manager after I shut them down. I tried to kill the process in taskmanager and prompt but the programs didn't shut down. When I noticed I...

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Com surrogate/ Dllhost.exe starts consuming high Memory

I have been having this serious problem with browsing with windows explorer. As soon as I open any folder & scroll down, com surrogate shows up in Windows Task Manager and starts consuming memory....

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MainBathBootTime goes from 5881 to 39318

Folks Am hoping some of the smart folks here can help me out I have an HP desktop, with an i7 and 8 gig ram. I stuck an SSD drive in and got my bootup time to about 20 seconds from pressing the on...

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Monitor Image Flickers, Shakes, and Jumps at Some MS Sites

When I visit some MS sites, my desktop monitor image shakes, flickers, jumps, etc. It does it only on the MS sites, especially Windows Sky Drive. Dell Inspiron All in One, 2320, Win 7 Home Premium, 64...

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CPU/Disk spiking 100% from multiple tasks

For past (roughly) 2 weeks, when playing games such as league of legends/world of warcraft I noticed occasional (seemingly constant) lag spikes throughout the game, and when I opened my task...

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I'm in cmd prompt admin mode I get message I need to be in elevated

when I'm in cmd promt admin mode I still get message I need to be in elevated mode? cmd prompt is in windows/system32 ok this is a fresh install of win on to a new drive can anyone help me on this...

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Recommended utility to fix and speed up Windows

Hi, Can you recommend a utility for dealing with all the errors and junk that build up in Windows over time, using up memory, disk space and slowing everything down? Most of all I want something...

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troubleshooting

Troubleshooting used to work but now it doesn’t. How can I fix the error message that says an error occurred while troubleshooting.

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sfc /scannow error

Hi,I recently ran a sfc /scannow and when it finished it showed "windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them" and to check cbs logfile. I originally ran this scan...

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