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)...
View ArticleAdvanced 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,...
View ArticleMethod 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...
View ArticleWhen 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:...
View Articlehigh 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...
View ArticlePerformance 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...
View ArticleSystem 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...
View Articlewindows 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...
View ArticleDisk 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...
View ArticleWin7x64 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)...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticlePrograms 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...
View ArticleCom 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....
View ArticleMainBathBootTime 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...
View ArticleMonitor 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...
View ArticleCPU/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...
View ArticleI'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...
View ArticleRecommended 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...
View Articletroubleshooting
Troubleshooting used to work but now it doesnt. How can I fix the error message that says an error occurred while troubleshooting.
View Articlesfc /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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