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    [svchost] Watching a video → DComLaunch triggers high CPU usage

    I'll do i when I have the patience to reboot and wait several times.
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    [svchost] Watching a video → DComLaunch triggers high CPU usage

    Thanks for the tip. Even after rebooting, it's still unable to repair the following files: difxapi.dll, winhlp32.exe.mui, and winhlp32.exe. It's not a major issue, so I'll just live with it until I migrate to a new host.
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    [svchost] Watching a video → DComLaunch triggers high CPU usage

    Hello, Occasionally, when watching a video* through Google Chrome, I notice CPU usage goes way up. Resource Monitor shows it's due to a svchost process in charge of "DComLaunch, PlugPlay, Power". For one, Sysinternals' psservice.exe says that the PlugPlay service is...
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    [SOLVED] Secure notepad?

    Yes, but the data I have to start with do not neatly fit the colums required to use password managers like KeePass, which I did look at before. And it'd be too much work to edit the input file. So I needed a solution that could encrypt a free-flow text file.
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    [SOLVED] Secure notepad?

    Hello, In case my computer gets hacked, I want to keep passwords safe into an encrypted file. Since the data I have is free-flow, KeePass won't do since it expects data to be in neat columns (logon, password, etc.) After checking several apps, I came up with the following requirements: 1...
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    [SOLVED] Application to list apps most often used?

    Thanks much for the tip! Among the many apps/scripts available, Nirsoft's WinPrefetchView makes it possible to sort files by their location, an easy way to ignore those living in the Windows directory. Cheers,
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    [SOLVED] Application to list apps most often used?

    Hello, To make a bit less painful to migrate from my aging 32-bit Windows 7 workstation to the latest and greatest, I need to find what apps I most often use, before gathering and installing the latest version of each and importing data files and settings. The "Last Used On" column in W7's...
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    Windows 10 [SOLVED] Windows command to identify chipset of USB wifi dongle?

    "msinfo32.exe" provides the infos I was looking for.
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    Windows 10 [SOLVED] Windows command to identify chipset of USB wifi dongle?

    Hello, Is there a simple way in Windows to find the chipset used on a USB wifi dongle - preferably something that can be run on any Windows since XP? I need someone remote to run a command and tell me what hardware he has on his computer; As he is barely computer-literate, I need the simplest...
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    Windows 7 [SOLVED] Windows 7 (Ultimate) on old netbook?

    Booting Linux Mint 18 Mate off a USB keydrive, it boots a bit slower than XP, but it should be as fast from the hard drive. The UI definitely looks better than LXDE, but I have the same issues I had with the other distros: Wifi fails authenticating Likewise, no sound through speakers, but OK...
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    Windows 7 [SOLVED] Windows 7 (Ultimate) on old netbook?

    Wouldn't Mint be too fat for such a slow CPU (+ possibly 2GB if it turns out it won't take more) ?
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    Windows 7 [SOLVED] Windows 7 (Ultimate) on old netbook?

    I tried a few lighweight distros (LXDE, ElementaryOS, Porteus, LinuxLite, SparkyLinux, etc.) but all of them had issues with either wifi, sound, etc. In XP, everything just worked, and the UI is consistent across applications. Looks like 2017 still won't be the year of the desktop Linux :bigtongue:
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    Windows 7 [SOLVED] Windows 7 (Ultimate) on old netbook?

    Thanks. Indeed, it does currently have 2GB of RAM. Can I really add bigger sticks? Actually, since it shipped with W7 Start, I'm more concerned about performance. Does anyone have W7 running well on such a slow CPU?
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    Windows 7 [SOLVED] Windows 7 (Ultimate) on old netbook?

    Hello I bought a second-hand Asus EeePC 1001PXD which sports an Atom N455 processor and 2GB RAM. While Linux had multiple issues, XP worked right away. However, as XP is no longer supported, I was wondering how Windows 7 would run on that hardware, either Home or Ultimate. Thank you.
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    Windows 8 Couple of questions before cloning W8

    Thanks for the info. After posting, I read this elsewhere: "The second 100mb partition is your boot sector, plus recovery options. You should NOT delete this; however, you can avoid the creation of this partition if you format your drive using something other than the Windows Setup before...
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