Recent content by mpooley

I re-installed win 7 on a new SSD and after the first time I turned it off it said it was downloading 137 updates! next morning it started up and kept rebooting in an endless loop. I got out the cd and went into repair after several botched attempts this worked! I carried on adding my programs...

Hi I have win 7 ultimate running on a 4core intel Q9450 and a nvidia 8800gt Just lately if i do anything in explorer like add a new folder .. move a file to another folder etc it almosts stops! it can take literally a minute or more and the sometimes i have to refresh to see the changes. I...

Hi all WEll It's my fault I'm sure :mad: Ihave been trying to make a dedicated media centre on my acer aspire revo and I followed some suggestions to set som services to manual :mad: well I did and now my keyboard works but in a different configuration eg press M get O ! now I tried going to...

I am using W7 media centre and it seems a bit unresponsive! As I'm only using this computer for TV/media I only need networking and obviously media centre to be running. Is there any guide to say what processes etc can be shut down? thanks Mike

Thankyou for your reply. I have not installed any software at all yet. Other than the drivers for a usb twin tv tuner. no burning software nothing! I have only just booted the system up (only got it today) so perhaps it does need some windows updates? disc drive has no tray just a flip lid I...

Hi I have just bought a revo 3600 nettop for use as a media centre and a LITEON usb dvd rom drive. I tested the usb drive on my main computer running win7 ultimate and it works fine. when i plug it in to the revo running win7 ultimate it shows up in device manager ok but does not show in "my...