Recent content by Dave McKeen

Hello! I'm on my 3rd Windows install on this PC build and want to keep it as clean as possible. Besides, on shutdown I get the “Waiting for Background Program to Close” for a fraction of a second- with nothing listed between the horizontal lines. I figured I would start by fixing the causes...

The computer is a custom build. Details below my sig. The OS is a standard install on C:\. Applications/utilities are installed on E:\ Built in October 2013, put in service February 2014. (For some reason never had much confidence in it!) I use it mainly to finish photos in Photoshop I have...

Hi! My apologies- I thought I was posting in the Windows 7 forum. Here's my PC: New build 10 June 2011 "Andrei" CASE Cooler Master HAF 912 RC-912-KKN1 Mid Tower MOTHERBOARD ASUS P8P67 Deluxe LGA (P67 B3 Rev) CPU Intel BX80623I72600K Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost)...

Hello! I just noticed I have $UPGRADE.~OS and $WINDOWS.~BT in the root of my C: drive. The former "size on disk" is 264 MB and the latter is 3.3 GB. The latter has tens of thousands of files and thousands of folders. I ran Disk Cleanup on the drive. It removed a lot of files, but these two...

OK, here's a break from those difficult to solve problems. I've got a PC that's doing something I like. When I build a new system I'd like the feature in that one too. When I close Outlook 2007 I back up the PST files including some PST archive files from C: to my data drive D:. I use...

I'm at a dead end. I'm a terrible sleuth. I downloaded ChipUtil325.exe and I can't run it. Must be run as administrator. Which I am. Don't see anything about a Matrix Storage Manager driver for P55 on Intel site. :( Close, but no cigar... [edit] Did a search on Intel's site on P55 and got...

Is this it? http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17882&lang=eng My chipset is P55. I don't see it supported here. Is your chipset supported with this driver?

Hello RCube, thanks for sharing that! Amazing! Could you post the URL that has the "Intel Matrix Storage" driver in case we can't find it readily? - Dave

Hey zvit! Your first research result (Dell support) did the trick for me! YAY!! The System Properties dialog box is different than Vista's, but the support link gave me the leads I needed to zap the bogus drive. After I did that the error message OK'ing out of the Configure dialog [System...

Hey zvit- thanks for that research. I'll put it through the wringer in the morning and report back. Saltgrass- In Disk Management the C: drive looks like a normal Windows 7 boot drive. It's got the 100MB System Reserve partition with the remaining capacity (83.74 GB) allocated to C: boot...

Hello, I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit in Classic mode. My system specs are listed below my signature. Before installing a program today I went to create a system restore point. In System Properties > System Protection I see that in Protection Settings > Available Drives there are...

Hello Tater, I'm running Microsoft Security Essentials and have Windows Defender disabled. Should I uninstall MSE, run my tests and then reinstall the AV program? In my example I was moving data between a Sandisk Extreme 4 45MB/s UDMA Compact Flash card Via Sandisk's Extreme reader over...

I now have the latest nVidia driver installed. It's 8.17.12.5896 dated 7/9/2010. I have the latest drivers for Logitech (Setpoint) Wacom Epson Printer Brother Printer Korg Epson Scanner I unchecked Windows FAX and Scan but got an error in Outlook so turned it back on. File operations I...

TorrentG and Tater- I have MSE on this system. Should I uninstall it and run my tests then reinstall? I followed the link to the Intel drivers page. It ran a check and said that I had three components it could not identify that might ir might not need drivers. One was my nVidia card, and the...

Hi TorrentG, I watched the CPU usage while I ran the example: 1. Source on HD to CF Card 1 min 18s (Safe Mode was 45s) CPU 6% 2. CF Card to Dest. Folder 30s (Safe Mode was 5s) CPU 12% 3. Delete from Dest. Folder 29s (Safe Mode was <1s) CPU 18% After all that I looked at the processes...