clean boot

Copying files is a basic yet essential task that every computer user performs, but what do you do when the process unexpectedly stops halfway? It can be frustrating, especially if you're copying large files or important documents. Various factors can cause this disruption, and knowing how to...

My computer has been behaving strangely and in general feels pretty sluggish compared to a few weeks ago when I bought it. I have factory reset it a few times, reinstalled windows, did clean boot but nothing seemed to "unlock" it back to its full potential. I noticed how my memory just...

I was going to perform a clean boot and typed msconfig only to find my settings already at selective not normal. I changed it but after a reboot it again was selective.

So hey guys, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation here. So I booted up my computer on Monday, loaded fine and everything seemed to work until i tried opening the file explorer, when boom error message. Being an Com Sci major and having some experience with viruses and windows misbehaving, I...

So I have an older machine using a core 2 duo 8500 processor with 3.18mhz. I use this maching mostly for social media and email and it has worked fine until microsoft stopped supporting vista. I even upgraded the drive to a nice ssd and the machine boots up pretty fast. But as time goes on, I am...

Everything was going well until about a month ago when for some reason it decided to start freezing...kernel power issue, so I tried a clean boot and that hasn't worked and nor has running in safe mode. I'm running win 7 64bit ultimate, motherboard Gigabyte GA 990FX UD5, GTX 750i gpu, 4 sticks...

Hello, I'm new here I just wanted to ask for some help and assistance over the issues I've faced with my laptop. Specs: Processor: Intel Core i5-6220U Ram: 8gb Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Here's my Diagnostic-Performance Events: Boot Performance Monitoring This application took longer than...

Hey guys Ive been going crazy trying to get Windows 10 to work on my girlfriends computer. Ive done it 2 times successfully on mine with 0 issue and have been working on hers for 3 days now and am no closer than I was at the start First off - I have windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and it is...

Trying to upgrade from Wondows 7 Pro to Windows 10. This process has crashed about 10 times, have been going back to Windows 7 working on drivers. I did a "clean boot" and did get Windows 10 to install. But then I went back to a normal startup, which killed it on reboot. I'm trying to boot...

For some time now run a dual boot pc for some time now with Win 7 and Win 10 tech preview. I have upgraded to Win 10. So now what I want to do is uninstall the tech preview and the boot menu. I could just format the tech preview drive but would that leave my boot up clean with just the Win 10...

Hi Guys, I really need help on this one, HP laptop with Win 8.1, when cold booting or restarting the laptop it does not get past the HP splash screen until I press any random key, then it loads fine, tried strating in safe mode also a clean boot, I have to manually press a key at the HP splash...

I am trying to update newly installed Win. 8 so I can install Win 8.1. Up[grade will not take, upon rebooting it has a failure to update and reverting changes(takes forever). I have had this problem before and usually doing a "troubleshoot updates" and a clean boot worked, even did a...

I've recently been having problems with setting my account picture. It will come up with an error every time I try to change it. I haven't changed my account picture in 6 days nor been on my computer in 6 days (which I doubt affects it). I actually had this problem before (a month and a week ago...

I am having a issue with new windows 8.1, it was all working fine few days back then of a sudden some applications, like calendar, Bing Finance, Mail when clicked automatically minimizes on the taskbar. It looks like it has lost focus and is not working. I have tried suggestions on multiple...

Hello, I can't seem to uninstall Trend Micro's Clean Boot. It is part of Trend Micro Titanium 2014. Uninstalled the program thru Add/Remove Programs and then also used their uninstall tool. Edited the registry deleting all Trend Micro references I could locate but it still comes up as an option...

Hi Am hoping someone can help me solve this riddle because it is driving me nuts. I do not use IE as my primary explorer! I installed SQL Server 2012 onto my PC to do some studying into SQL, but when I tried to launch Visual Studio it told me: "Visual Studio requires Internet Explorer 6.0 or...

My computer constantly freezes when i open too many programs and specifically i try playing games like Starcraft and it keeps freezing, but it doesn't freeze when i have League of Legends open or Dolby Axon. I tried using sfc /scannow in CMD but it didn't work in normal mode neither in safe mode...

As the title says. I have booted in safe mode, and it seems to work fine. But, when I do a clean boot (disabling all non-windows startup services and programs), it still logs me out. I am at a loss of what to do from here. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

My PC ignores all power settings and hibernates after approx 5 minutes of user inactivity. It is a Dell Vostro 200, which I had been running successfully on Windows 8 Pro. The problem appears to have been the result of upgrading to Windows 8.1. Regardless of the power scheme settings, the PC...

I have been using Widows 7 for over a year without incident. Up until a few days ago the power button and wake from sleep all worked normally, but not anymore. Please tell me how to trouble shoot this. I am using Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1 Processor: Intel Core i3-2105 CPU @ 3.10GHz...