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    Speed Up Windows 10/11: 5 Safer Alternatives to Registry Cleaners

    If you still believe a monthly pass with a registry cleaner will somehow make Windows boot faster, it’s time to stop — not because the registry is sacred, but because there are far higher-impact, safer, and well-supported ways to speed up and stabilize a Windows PC than poking at the registry...
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    Windows 10 Doing a clean reinstall of Windows 7 pro to Windows 10 pro

    If I am doing a clean reinstall starting with Windows 7 pro SP1, would I need to update it fully before I do a Windows 10 upgrade? Just like when you would do a service pack install, you did it immediately after installation. Sometimes it feels like windows 10 is just another service pack...
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    Windows 7 Black screen of death after IOLO defrag

    Hello All, My laptop (Dell Studio 1550, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit) just gave me the black screen upon start-up. The Iolo System Mechanic had defragged the registry, I think, and it seems that the process had damaged my laptop's registry. I've ran sfc /scannow with no issues, but the...
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    • black screen clean reinstall dell laptop iolo defrag memory diagnostic registry issues sfc system mechanic system restore windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows Vista How to troubleshoot CPU/Disk spikes?

    I have narrowed down my serious start up degradation on a Gateway ML3109 to spiking CPU and Disk activity as I start up and do almost anything on the notebook. Something is making various services, apps and drivers throw up errors about taking too long to start-up and shutdown. I thought I had...
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    • activity avast clean reinstall cpu critical defrag disk drivers errors gateway hardware logs memory performance services shutdown startup system troubleshoot vista
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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