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I recently acquired a new SSD and found that the wealth of set up information out there can be at times confusing. Depending on what you read you'll be told to switch off this and turn off that. Luckily for us Windows 8 and 8.1 are SSD 'aware' and should change their settings automatically as...

Something curious that I noticed while defragging my new installation of W7 is that System Volume Information is divided into 5 folders, while the old installation is only divided into two folders, even though far less programs are installed on the new (65GB vs 165GB). As far as I know, this...

This started happening a few days ago. All of a sudden, my computer would be act really sluggish and I'd look at the task manager and see that under processes, explorer.exe is taking up most of my 16GB of RAM. It started happening after I was trying to play counter STrike after I had installed...

Within the past month or so I've noticed that my Win7 SP1 desktop has stopped returning to sleep after the task scheduler runs any one of the 3 scheduled tasks for which "wake the computer..." is set as a condition. I put the system to sleep each night with "defrag", "restore" and "backup" set...

Hello everyone, First if I am posting this in the wrong section feel free to move it. My win 7 ultimate after a fresh clean install would start up in 1 min 15 sec. After a few months the start up time increased to 3 mins.30sec! After trying all the obvious solutions, Malware check, spyware...

In Windows Vista, 7 & 8, there is a little be known defrag function that can drastically improve boot times under certain circumstances. If you open cmd and type defrag /?, you will see a list if available commands. However, there is a hidden one which is not shown and that is -b. This command...

My HD usage is almost constantly at 100% making my brand new laptop pause when typing every few seconds. Lenovo 530 I5 w/12GB RAM 2 months old I tried a clean retail install of windows 8 pro, and without any other installed programs problem existed. There is no program using more that...

So I got my first BSOD in a long time last night whilst turning off my computer. All I did before that was a Defraq of my HDD and installing the newest WHQL Nvidia Driver for my GPU. I suspect it might have been something to do with the new driver but I've never encountered Quota_Underflow...

I've been working on this for weeks so shall try to make it succinct. System: Lenovo laptop, Windows 7 64 bit, Logitech wireless mouse; no changes of any kind since weeks before problem started Problem: wireless mouse acts very strangely. Cannot use (at random - sometimes it works) Windows...

I have a REAL problem with slowness on my laptop, every program takes seconds to load and I am very tired of seeing the "not responding" message when trying to save docs, images - or even launch a program. Online it's the same thing, editing a Wordpress site and hitting Publish - can result in...

After thinking that I'd fixed an error in the PrecisionX program for my new GPU, I find that it is not fixed. While looking to see that it was installed properly, I now find that all of my programs, including every game from Steam, is installed on both the SSD and the HDD. How did I mess up like...

I had Auslogics Defrag Pro installed on my Windows 7 computer and was able to do Simple defrag, Free space optimization, and Optimize by Prefetch Layout without any issues. I installed Auslogics DefragPro on my new Windows 8 and tried to run Optimize by Prefetch Layout, but got a message that...

Require a little assistance W7 64 slow start and drive problem This start slow andthe screen icon appear in full then closed down and slowly re appear Even the program as slow running Defaged hard drive ,registry cleaned No program show instart up section W7 set to performanceand ram to...

For example, I keep VMs of legacy Windows for client support. IF, for whatever reasons, you are running VMs of Operating Systems remember they, too, require updating... (their) browsers, Adobe, Java, Microsoft Updates, security tool(s) for A-V & A-M, CCleaner, et al; AND the same TLC, too...

For example, I keep VMs of legacy Windows for client support. IF, for whatever reasons, you are running VMs of Operating Systems remember they, too, require updating... (their) browsers, Adobe, Java, Microsoft Updates, security tool(s) for A-V & A-M, CCleaner, et al; AND the same TLC, too...

As the title suggests really, always had crap boot times with my computer but I've now re-installed everything with an SSD and it's probably even worse. Any suggestions? Defrag perhaps? Or is that a massive no-no with SSD's... I've already ruined one before a year ago so I'm wary or how I deal...

Computer randomly wigs out into BSOD and I cannot figure out why. Updated all drivers, as far as I know. Ran diagnostics, came up clear. Defrag didn't help. The BSOD happens when using my browser, or starting an application. Thinking it may be a RAM issue. Please help me out :) most of you guys...

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Hi All, I am having fits trying to figure out why my computer is randomly going into bluescreens. I have done a chkdsk /f/r (no errors), I have done 7 hours of memtest86+ (no errors) I have swapped out my GeForce 9500GT graphics card with my onboard Nvidia 7025 graphics chip (BSOD's on...

Hello - I did search the slow start up topics, but couldn't find anything relating to a power outage. Also, I can't say 100% that this is related to the power outage. I had this same problem a couple months ago after an automatic Windows update. I restored the computer to 2 days prior and...