core2duo

Everything lags on my kids pc. its a Dell Core2Duo, not an amazing system but my kids like to sit & watch funny youtube video's & stuff. Its got a HD3780 GPU in & everything is dust free as I clean it often. I have no idea why it's doing it or what could be causing it. When I say everything lags...

Hey! I just happened to switch over to Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit. I previously had WinXP SP3. Now, i have an old laptop: Core2Duo T5200 1,6 GHz, Intel GMA 950 (256 MB) and 2 GB DDR2. The problem is after switching to Win8 YouTube videos lag in normal view (480p, 720p, doesn't matter), and they...

Hi, I'm the new IT tech at our office, and I have been asked an odd question a few times now. Someone asks why their computer is slow, it takes 3 minutes to open an excel spreadsheet for example. Typically it's an older core2duo processor with windows XP. Can you tell me what you would...

A couple of days ago there was an update. After that update my system slowed down a lot. The windows explorer takes about 10 seconds to open. The same kind of thing happened with the update in the beginning of last November. Running the disk error check helped a lot (when I finally found some...

I installed Windows 8 x64 just yesterday and I must say I was amazed with its performance! It worked great with my old setup, an old Intel Core2Duo 2.13 GHz and 4 GB DDR2 memory. My previous OS was Windows XP but I decided to try Windows 8 since I had a free license as a student and my old...

Hey everyone My 2 year old HP DV3610ae Laptop keeps giving me a BSOD. It's a Core2Duo T6400 2.0 Ghz with 4Gb DDR2 Ram. Usually its a IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, but I have seen other errors and some times it just restarts without BSOD and no memorydump is then generated. It is usually just...

Hello everyone, I've just installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 SP1 32Bit on my machine (I used WinXP on it until now). I dont know why Win7 crashes every night and sometimes 2 times a day. My Hardware: ASUS P5KPL-CM Motherboard, 4GB DDR2 Kingston, Core2Duo E6550 (2.33GHZ) Hd - WD Caviar Blue...

I just bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad T400. This is my 5th Thinkpad. It is a 2767-P1U. It is running Windows 7. I have the Lenovo drivers installed and have upgraded them to the latest available. I have also got Norton Anti-Virus 2011 and Office 2007 Professional. Windows is fully updated as well...

Every time I start playing music (VLC) my laptop restarts. I have been experiencing this for more than a month. Tried reinstalling drivers and even Win7 but nothing seems to help. Previously it used to give me a BSOD restart but since the last time I reinstalled Win7 after formatting the laptop...

I have an unusual problem here. While at some point having downloaded appropriate updates, installed (supposedly) and restarted, now windows update say "restart you computer to finish installing important updates". However, nothing gets installed and when I have restartet, the same message...

Hi guys, I just found out that Tomb Raider Anniversary is a remake of the original Tomb Raider lol , which got me interested in playing it. Anyway I downloaded the demo but I can't get it to run - the game crashes after the copyright screen with the standard message "Tomb raider anniversary...

Hi 4 days ago I installed windows 7 ultimate (clean/full install) and the picture/graphic on my monitor looks ok (movies,pictures,internet and so on) but after windows uppdate uppdated the nvidia drivers, the picture om my monitor looks strange. It's hard to explain but it feels to bright...

Currently I am having an issue where certain programs open/run very slow such as itunes, disc defrag, and it reads cd-roms extraordinarily slow. It takes about 5 minutes to open then and after they are opened they continue to run very slowly. The odd thing is that not all programs run slow or...

I am running windows 7 home premium 32-bit on a dell inspiron 1525( intel core2duo 2.0Ghz, 3gb ram). when i open help and support from start menu, i get the following screen: Link Removed due to 404 Error. It shows strange content. Additionally,it shows 'no result found' for whatever topic i...

Okay so I have tried playing a large number of the games that I played on vista before I upgraded to Windows 7 professional 64 bit. All the games install fine with no problems but when I actually start them they all start then stop, start and stop over and over again. I can ctrl+alt+delete my...

Hi I'm new, and I need some help. I just finished upgrading my windows XP home 32 bit to windows 7 pro 32bit using the upgrade disk. And I registered the software using the product key that came with it. I was browsing through the forums and saw that it was possible to upgrade from 32bit to...

first to say hi to all the forum members this is mine strange problem with win 7: i did a fresh install to win 7 64 bit retail from xp and i have a problem with aero random slowdowns, for example if aero slow down after a restart (the refresh is slow and choppy, windows explorer is slow after...

Ok, so I have ACPI 2.0 installed, and I have all the settings in the "Power Options" that allow a timed hibernate, disabled. However, when I leave the PC on it will hybrid sleep after a few hours and then when I try to resume, it instantly turns on (like its supposed to) but then, after about a...

Hi all, i have just purchase windows 7 today. i am intending to do a clean install and so i did a boot up from the cd/dvd option with the DVD. i manage to get to the first blue sky wallpaper everytime. From then on, it will freeze randomly each time with a different timing. The loading is...

Hi, I'm using Windows 7 RTM for two months or so. I have a recurring problem: While surfing the web after sometime, either with IE 8 or FF3.5, the browser stops responding and I have to close it and reopen in order to surf again, and then its stops responding more often, so I have to restart...