computer maintenance

Hi guys my i7 idles around 40's? it has always been like this CPU: 43 Core 0 42 Core:1 41 Core 2: 42 core 3 41 ( my aux is 128 ) but people have told me speed fan gives a false reading for that considering its been stuck at just 128 and nothing on my mobo is that hot... also considering that is...

Hi all, 3 months ago i bought Lenovo v570c with Home Basic installed on it, yesterday he have started to lag very hard, so I decided to install Windows 7 Ultimate. So I started the CD, booted it up, selected language, then selected Custom install, becouse I wanted to install fresh windows...

First: A little Information: Full Article @ Microsoft Offering Improved CHKDSK Utility in Windows 8 -- Redmondmag.com Tutorial for running CHKDSK: There are 2 options to running CHKDSK (Check Disk) in Windows 8 Option #1: Run CHKDSK from "My Computer" 1. Open "My Computer" either from...

Download Revo Uninstaller Pro: http://bit.ly/H2JWXD In this video, I am going to demonstrate and review Revo Uninstaller. Revo Uninstaller is a freeware application that helps you to uninstall applications on your computer that would otherwise leave registry keys, system files, dynamic link...

I have asked this question before, but never received a sensible response (not on this forum). My question is this: Does anyone know why Win 7 is loaded down with vast quantities of utterly useless and unwanted and space occupying foreign fonts? I need maybe a dozen or so fonts, which is quite...

Describes how to delete the contents of the Temporary Internet Files folder from the computer. This article includes the "Fix it for me" option that can omplete the procedure automatically for you. Or you can follow the manual steps to complete the... More...

Hi I haven't changed an internal hard drive in years but my main concern is getting the correct type of hard drive to add. My friend has a Dell Dimension 8300 from abut 2004 that he want's to add a hard drive to. He has only a 80 Gig drive in it and wants to get some thing it the 160 to 250...

The Window Updates fail with error 80070308 System: Win7 x64 + SP1 Updates that failed: KB2570791 KB2536276-v2 KB2539635 KB2572077 KB2518869 KB2586448 KB2556532 KB2560656 KB2552343 Things that I've tried but failed: (also good for others to try these first) 1) Reset and re-register Windows...

*Info: - Laptop HP 2730p - Win7 Professional x64 - Unmodified Hardware *Additional Info: - 2 User Account - After using Windows Cleaner in Revo Uninstaller - After uninstalling SRS Audio Sandbox *Problems: - When logging in as User 2, stuck at welcome screen for about 15min, with either Normal...

So my story is this, since some time one time per month more or less with a normal use of the computer my Windows decides it's time to corrupt a folder/file, whatever, pretty sad indeed, what it also does is somehow disable my autochk.exe and my chkdsk.exe so that I can't fix this problem, but...

I just recently bought an HP Pavilion p6730f BV533AA#ABA Desktop PC - Intel Core i3-550 3.2GHz, 6GB DDR3, 1.5TB HDD, DVDRW, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Right out of the box it started acting a little touchy. I bought to get a project done for a client, so immediately I installed Adobe...

Don't have administrator access. Want to defrag and install new prograI am using a laptop with following sepc: ThinkPad lenovo laptop, T410i Windows 7 Professional 64bit This laptop is companie's one and I am using at home. I don't have administrator access and neither I have the password...

On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...

Hey guys, have a problem and need your help, any help...I just purchased GreenPrint Home Premimum and need to have Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 installed for the program to work, their site also specifies you have Windows Installer befor the Service Pack can be downloaded...When I try to...

Hello. I need help from someone who knows what I need to do.... My Compaq CQ60-615DX Notebook has just all of a sudden started running really slow for the past week. It all started last tuesday when I tried to log off and it had to install 22 updates. After the updates I uploaded some Zumba...

Hi i have lately been having a few blue screens such as Memory_management System_Service_Exception System_Thread_Exception_Not_Handled_M Kmode_exception_not_handled also at the begginning of the year i was getting Driver_irql_not less or equal and bad_pool_header. My systems Specs are...

Since so many people need to scan their computers and do all sorts of maintenance, I would like to share a great site that seems to buzz with traffic and has a very nice interface, that you can find lists of free software for Windows 7 x32, x64 and much more. This is great for people who can't...

I just recently purchased a 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drive and It is replacing another Hard Drive that Died. I Plugged it In, Everything seemed to be working fine. I Formatted it NTFS, Added Drive letter E to it (which was the same as the old drive its replacing). Copied all my data over to it and...

Running Win7 on a hard drive installed 4 months ago. Left my Win7 upgrade disc with vendor and they loaded. Getting BSod 2 - 3 times a day. Had tech at work (he's a Linux freak and did it begrudgingly) check hard ware and all seems acceptable. Ran 'verifier' for drivers and reboot freezes...

Look, I've been poking around this site for a bit now- not to mention about the web in general- and, I'm sure that somewhere, there might actually be a straight-forward answer to this (no doubt here-but, again, I couldn't seem to find it)- so, please forgive me for what is probably (yet another)...