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Windows 7 Defragmenting my Pc takes Memory (Go)?
Hello, yesterday i've bought a used Dell LATITUDE D630. There's my pc specs: CPU: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz. CPU Speed: 2.2 GHz. RAM: 2.1 GB. OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 32-bit. Video Card: Mobile Intel® 965 Express Chipset Family...- IV Moony VI
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- computer cpu defrag dell disk space free space graphics card hard drive hd video memory performance ram service pack slowdown storage system specs tech support windows 7 youtube video
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Computer deleting free dpace
About a week ago I started getting notification that my 1 tb hard drive was almost full. I found this hard to believe as I try to keep a fairly close eye on it. I deleted some unnecessary files and it then showed I had about 20 gb free. The problem continues to happen. This morning I got the...- dclifford
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- defrag disk space file deletion free space hard drive maintenance notifications storage troubleshooting virus
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows Vista Need help cleaned up registry and odd pop up still happening
Today, for the first time, every time I start up the computer, I keep getting "Startup Cleaner has stopped working" - could this be some thing to do with Spybot? The thing is, I haven't downloaded a start up cleaner. I am the only admin on this computer and also as of today for the first time...- Hittitte
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- administrator ca total defense computer defrag error provider registry spybot startup
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Why Does Revo Uninstall Show Fewer Program Installations Than Programs and Features?
I'm curious why Revo shows 8 less program installations, than Programs And Features does on my computer. Among the missing are all 3 O&O programs I have installed (Defrag, DriveLED & Disk Recovery). Why does Revo not list all of the software in Programs And Feature?- seekermeister
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- defrag disk recovery driveled features installation missing programs o&o programs revo software
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Turning Off Shadow Copies
I was about run a defrag on C: with O&O, but since there are a lot of locked blocks, I decided to temporarily turn off hibernation and shadow copies, but I've run into a problem with the latter. Even after turning it off and deleting shadow copies in the Device Manager, O&O still reports that...- seekermeister
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- defrag device manager hibernation locked blocks services shadow copy troubleshooting windows settings
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Defragger & Optimizer
I tried this and I can't tell if it works or not. When I defrag & optimize it never stops going thru passes. I stopped it at pass 15 but there was no evidence that anything was corrected. Anybody know anything about this Thanks- enigma1944
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- defrag disk cleanup maintenance optimization optimize pass performance storage troubleshooting windows tools
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Troubleshooting Windows 7: System Instability, Slow Performance, and Installation Issues
Ok, I recently did a fresh install of win 7 because I corrupted my own registry playing about. Anyways, I got everything done & all looked fine & completed normally & then I got a BSOD. First one ever, continued & it looked normal & everything. Then after about a week I noticed some programs...- VsUK
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- browser bsod defrag diagnostics error hdd installation issues memory performance process registry resource monitor slow startup system tuneup utilities unstable windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP Can't Install Programs or Hardware
I recently did a clean install of my OS. I deleted the partition and reformatted my hard drive. I have a Dell Dimension 3000 running Windows XP Home Edition with SP3. It has a Pentium 4 processor 2.8 Ghz and 2GB of RAM. After installing windows XP, I put in my drivers for chipset, video, and...- dino80
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- antivirus clean install defrag drivers firefox hard drive incredimail installation internet explorer maintenance memory pentium performance printer issues sp3 svchost.exe system performance windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 What is my computer (hard drive) doing now?- I can hear it working
When you defrag your computer you can hear the hard drive running as it changes files back and forth. At times I can hear the same sound (or similar) but have no clue what it can possibly be doing. My 1st instinct is to unplug my internet connection should someone be hacking in my PC and using...- pintree3
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- defrag firefox hard drive maintenance memory usage monitoring performance skype software task manager
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 To Defrag or Not To Defrag
Anytime I create a backup with True Image, and then analyze it with O&O Defrag, it always shows the entire backup as being fragmented. I have always let it remain that way, because long ago I asked about this somewhere (can't remember now), and was told it was better not to defrag it. However...- seekermeister
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- advice backup data management defrag file system fragmentation performance storage true image windows
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 8 Need any Disk cleaner?
My computer system is windows8. When I try to download something or just run some programs, a warning would show up and said that I have low disk space. How can I clear my disk space? Also, I wonder a simple disk defragmentation could be enough. Many thanks.- newsletter
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- defrag developer tools disk cleanup disk space maintenance optimization performance issues storage windows 8
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 8 SSD's, Windows 8 and 8.1
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...- kemical
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- defrag guide optimisation setup ssd storage trim tweaks windows 8 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Tutorials
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Windows 7 32bit vs 64bit win7
I watch a great deal of Netflix on my PC. I have noticed lately that while watching a program a great deal of buffering goes on. I run Auslogics defragmenter. Does disk fragmentation have anything to do with my issue? I must connect to a VPN as i live in a country where Netflix is not supported...- billyc99
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- 32-bit 64-bit buffering communication defrag disk space external storage hard drive memory netflix network performance processor streaming system locale usb user account virus protection vpn windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 True Image Sync
I just used the folder sync function of TI to move a few hundred video files from one drive to another, it worked as expected except that when checking the target drive after completion, it was highly fragmented, and it looks as though it is going to take many hours for defragging. I only used...- seekermeister
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- backup convenience data transfer defrag disk utility drive management efficiency file management file system folders fragmentation performance software recommendations storage sync true image user experience video files
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 System Volume Information
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...- seekermeister
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- control defrag directories folders fragmentation installation mft remedy system volume windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Hard Drive Damage
I've posted a couple of questions in the past regarding hard drive problems, but not quite like this one. Due to the fact that my Windows 7 installation has become especially sluggish lately, I've been looking at a number of possibilities for dealing with it, including a clean installation of...- seekermeister
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- clean install data loss data management defrag file management fragmentation hard drive hardware installation limitations maintenance partition performance slow blocks ssd storage tech support troubleshooting video files windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Explorer uses up most of my RAM
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...- Pcmaker
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- avira ccleaner counter strike crash defrag drivers explorer firewall maintenance malware memory usage performance reset sluggish software task manager tddskiller troubleshooting windows 7 zonealarm
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Win7 SP1 not returning to sleep after scheduled tasks
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...- proteus459
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- backup defrag restore sleep mode sp1 system behavior task scheduler wake conditions windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Is my Hard drive possibly causing stuttering/graphic lag?
Hey everyone! So, for a bout a year and a half, I've had this weird problem where for example, if I would be scrolling down a page in Firefox, there was a stutter going on every few seconds. The same kind of deal would happen when watching videos...if there was a movement whatsoever in the...- Soulfly
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- 8600gt asus boot time cpu defrag diagnostics games graphics hard drive lag malwarebytes motherboard nvidia performance psu ram scandisk stuttering troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Re: Win 7 doesn't start
Good evening! Sorry if I posted this under an incorrect topic area, but I'm at a loss and not sure where to start. So, I shall give you all a brief explanation as to what is up and, hopefully, you can direct me in the right direction? My husband's cousin had been complaining about her laptop...- terazbox
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- backup bios boot issues college crash defrag factory reset itunes laptop issues maintenance recovery disc repair mode slowness software sony vaio system restore tech support troubleshooting user support windows 7
- Replies: 40
- Forum: Windows Help and Support