computer maintenance

After having a little fiddle in event viewer (as one does) to see what's going on.. i tried to close the viewer and a box appeared saying that i need to "close all dialog boxes first" before it will close. after closing ALL the boxes required again clicked close, and again the afore mentioned...

Ok I've done an upgrade to my pc. I swapped out the motherboard and the harddrive. Before I did the swap I installed everything to the drive while it was in another case. Then I put it in my case that has two other harddrives. Now all of them were working when I did the change over. One of them...

Power Supply Settings. I have a HP Pavilion Elite m9040n and Win 7 64-bit. with Super-Anti-Spyware professional and Microsoft Security Essentials. I would like the Super-Anti-Spyware to run a daily scan starting at 2:00 AM and MSE to run a weekly scan on Sunday at 2:00 AM. My power supply is...

A while ago, my PC started to take a while to turn on, as in I had to turn the power on from the plug and wait a few seconds for the power button to actually work. After a while this 'lag' time took longer and longer and now I sometimes have to wait hours before turning my PC on but sometimes it...

Hi, I've recently formatted my computer and did a fresh install of Win7 64 bit to take advantage of my 6gb of memory. For the first 3 weeks everything was smooth, until I started getting multiple blue screens during full screen gameplay. It seems a little intermittent, I can play some days...

I have the following desktop: Link Removed My “MO” is generally to keep things “default” unless there is a good reason why I should change the way something is set up. An example is that I read SSDs wear out over time so it is better to put the paging file on a separate disk. Hence, I...

PROBLEM : Network shares created on Windows 7 and being accessed by Windows XP workstation are lost after a certain amout of time. XP never be able to access Share made on 7 until 7 is rebooted. You can still ping 7 from XP. WHAT I FOUND : Default configuration of Windows 7 (and...

This weekend, my PC has been freezing at random times and this is the only thing that I have been able to narrow down to the true issue. Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-WHEA-Logger Date: 4/26/2010 1:37:24 AM Event ID: 19 Task Category: None Level...

Recently I am starting experiencing a big problem. Whenever I am starting any program my CPU usage gets really big and when this program is turned on it gets to 5-8% again. Imagine how it chokes when Im looking any video or playing any game. IT LAGS. Even crashes and looks like sleeping. I'm...

Open the "Registry Editor" (Start (Orb), Run and type in regedit and click ok or press enter.) Navigate to and expand each the following: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers (This is where programs attach to the right click menu.) Now, you simply delete the keys you do not...

I have recently upgraded to Windows 7. However, It seems as if Windows Vista is still installed on my computer. When starting up it gives me the option to start up on vista or W7. How do I delete windows Vista from my computer and free up the space it is using. Thanks, James Keeton

Where are system protection settings stored on the system? In windows XP, this was in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore In Windows 7, this key exists, but the only values available are: FirstRun (what is this?) LastIndex (what is this?) RPSessionInterval (set to...

Hey there all I am new to the forum, well specifically because I don't know where to turn. I have an HP Desktop model A6614F with AMD Phenom x4 9500, 7GB or RAM, 640GB harddrive, Nvidia GTX260, and a 550W PSU. Now I had a hell of a time getting Windows 7 Pro 64 bit to install originally going...

~ I've read a few tutorials in preparation for the upgrade to Windows 7 and it was recommended that I uninstall all unnecessary software from my computer. I've done that, as well as doing a disk-cleanup and defragging. But I was wondering if it would be advisable to also uninstall my...

Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...

hi guys my problem is that my 55gb hard drive is still full (about 3 gb spare) after installing windows 7... i do a disk cleanup, then then in the pop up window it says i can save 20mb, so i click the clean system files button, and it says i can free up 35gb.. thats right 35gb...so i click ok...

Trying to do a back up to a portable HD 250 GB I'm told insufficent room! Looking at Windows I see files Windows Old that is 63 GB and Windows Old 000 that is 36 GB in size - can someone enlighten me on these, what they are they for? are they necessary? and can they be got rid of? :confused:

Hello everyone, So I have been using windows 7 since about memorial day, and really cant complain too much. The only major concern I have so far (besides not being able to delete folders because it claimed they were in use {i think i fixed this}) is that recently, it almost seems like once a...

I've been running Windows 7 on my laptop since it was released and really like it so far. Never ran Vista as my primary OS but did have it installed on a dedicated gaming desktop for a short period of time. Don't recall having that many issues with it like others have reported but maybe I didn't...

This was a weird one. I did a clean install of RC1. I used my Dell driver CD to reinstall drivers. After installing the sound, chipset, and SATA drivers the DVD drive would disappear at the end of each installation. I rebooted and BIOS did not detect it. I had to power off at the end of each...