computer performance

I used to have windows xp. While using it my computer would occasionally freeze up for a second and then go back to normal. It usually did this about every 10-20 seconds. If I jiggled my hard drive SATA cable the problem would go away and then come back about 1 to 2 weeks later and I would just...

Hello, I have 3 HP machines (out of warranty) with Visa on them and will installing 7 Pro on them. Clean install vs. upgrade...The computers have been slowing down over the past 2 years so I'd like a fresh OS installation. Will the upgrade option be starting fresh enough or is a format the...

Link Removed I don't understand, i believe that installing the 64 bits version i could use more ram memory. where is the problem?Can i do something? translating the image: installed memory (RAM): 4,00 GB (2,75 GB usable)

First of all, hi for all - i'm new in this forum :) Okay so this is my question: I got computer which has: Pentium4 Northwood 1.6ghz (turbed to 1.88ghz) 768mb ram DDR 200mhz nvidia fx5200 128mb WD 320gb IDE 7200rpm Question's would be: 1-do you know any programs which could boost my windows7...

i have 1 gb of ram installed. in system properties it shows as 5gb (1 gb useable) what does this mean?

The chief executive officer and founder of Dell, the world’s third largest supplier of personal computers, said that although netbooks appear to be pretty popular among end-users, many people eventually get disappointed with small screens, inconvenient keyboards and other peculiarities of...

Hello, I have a problem with the new taskbar in Windows 7. I have installed Windows and then I installed a lot of programs, so I can't recognize if something else than system does it, but let's say I have quite known and legal programs installed, so they should not to do this problem...

So I am having a very weird issue with Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.. If I open Safari 4 or Internet Explorer, the taskbar crashes (if I leave the window open or minimize it, however it doesn't crash if I close it completely).. and then I hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE and the taskmanager also crashes and I...

(Windows 7 64 bit) ok ive been reading thru what alot of people have been doing for the blue screen and all and i havnt seen anything like what ive been having problems with. i have gotten a blue screen three seperate times while one just being on the internet, and the other two times while...

My PC's been giving me a blue screen saying one of the below: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL PFN_LIST_CORRUPT I originally had 2 1gig DDR2 sticks and replaced them when my computer kept freezing. When I replaced them with 2 2gig DDR2 sticks I would get one of the above 2 blue screens...

Installing this OS has been a nightmare to date, granted it is on an older system: DFI Lanparty sli-dr NF4 AMD64 FX-53 2G ram 2x Seagate 120G barracudas (originally set up on a raid 0 array) BFG nvidia 7800 ultra On the initial install windows would not recognize my hard drives tried using...

Hi everyone, I wasn't sure where else to put this, if it's in the wrong section please if there's any mod out there you can change it to where it might belong to. Anyway, the issue I'm having is one of the strangest I've seen on an OS. I all of a sudden had a problem with a certain game and a...

Okay so obviously I have a Toshiba X205-S7483 laptop, year and a half old. The problem I am having is that from time to time, sometimes much more frequent than others Windows 7 will temporarily freeze. The freezes vary from single programs to the entire computer hard locking. I have tried and...

I've been playing with Windows 7 for about a week now, and I love it... I've got only ONE issue on the whole machine. My Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 USB mouse seems to be a problem. While moving around on the screen the pointer hangs for a moment, and the computer makes a ding chime...

A couple days ago, I came to my computer in the morning and there was about 3 or 4 Virus Warning screens from Avast... The screens were warning me about a virus'ed file called welik.exe... As I closed those boxes (after selecting DELETE), several more would pop up.. Click DELETE and close...

I like windows 7, but my computer just isn't fast enough and my computer ran XP faster.. I'm also wayyy more used to XP. (i have an e1505) anyway, I have the XP disk, But when I put the disk in, "Install Windows XP" isn't an option. (the text and images are dulled grey) I've tried several...

I installed windows 7 and both my nic adaptors (attansic L1, and realtek 8169). The computer was working wizbang. I then installed norton 360 and started seeing the BSOD w/tdx.sys error message. I tried couple different dated drivers with both adaptors and still received the tdx.sys error. I...

I just spent a lot of money on a so-called "media" computer from HP that has Vista 64 bit installed. I collect a lot of art. That is why I spent a lot of extra money for a computer that has, or is suppose to have a superior quality for media. When I open a picture in a folder, something called...

Hi, I'm having some issues with my work network. We have 3 computers hooked up to a netgear router with static IPs for each. The internet comes in through a DSL modem also hooked up to the router. Our website passes variables through the header and has some server-side code to it so I set up...

Hi guys! Since buying my new PC and upgrading to Windows Vista, I've been experiencing some nasty problems. The main one is that some applications start having problems with closing. When an app stop's responding I CANNOT kill it just by using the taskmanager. Its window stays open forever (not...