defragmentation

Here's some advice on upgrading to Windows 7, defragmenting your hard drive, and handling Data Execution Protection warnings. More...

I bought my HP Pavillion dm4 about a month ago and until recently, it had been working great and really fast while on the internet. Then lately, it started to load normal pages at half its speed, taking time to even load google. When playing MMOs like World of Warcraft, I was a lot laggier...

Hello there I am attempting to shrink my C:/ drive in order to make another partition for Linux Mint. When I try to shrink the drive in Disk Management, only about 7gb are shrunk, while I have 50gb of free space on that drive, and I even defragmented it. I unfortunately do not have another...

Hello, The size of my D drive is 397gb, it is currently showing that I have only 14gb free. There is about 20gb of stuff on my D drive which I can see, not including the roughly 46gb backup file. So, I can only account for 66gb of the 397gb. What should I do? I've ran ccleaner...

Hey PC users! I'm new here but I have a serious problem with lag on my computer and came here to ask the experts for help, because quite frankly, I'm exhausted from dealing with this situation. Here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit System Model: HP-Pavilion p6210y...

hi! I used the windows defraggler but it shows me a drive that doesn't exist.i have only C,D E and F which is DVD drive.But while i try to de fragment it shows me a drive like \\?\Volume{66ff1bc3-b24e-11df-9755-806e6f6e6963}\.I would like to know where this drive is located.If somebody...

Hi, I realise there are a million of these threads on here about CPU usage but I have checked several and they don't seem to fix my issue. Basically my CPU usage hits 100% a lot. Usually I am not doing much. Listening to Itunes and using firefox or vlc player. All of a sudden the sound becomes...

Hi all, I have a windows 7 64 bit installed on my laptop with both I.E 8 32 bit and 64 bit, everything was working fine for months until i installed I.E 9 beta which at first worked ok then whenever i run it the whole laptop freezes with the exception of the current Internet Explorer Screen so...

If an external USB HD is used for just backups is it really necessary to defrag it? I mean backups of pics movies etc where you are basically adding files. I've got one that has got messed us a few times and I suspect it may be the defrag. It's a WD My Book Pro II 1T. It showed a message drive...

System is a desktop with Asus p6T motherboard, i7 920 overclocked to 4GHz, 6GB of DDR3 memory running at a bit over 1520 MHz, 250GB Seagate SATA II drive for O/S, 4-1TB Seagate SATA II drives, DVD burner, a couple external drives and so on........ O/S is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Boot time...

Defraggler differs from other defrag tools on the market, by enabling you to quickly and simply defrag the files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. Simply run it, select the file and defragment in seconds. No more struggling with the Windows defragmentation tool. Changes...

Yes, it's that dreaded error message...and I am receiving it anytime I try to install any program/game. It's getting beyond ridiculous and I cannot find the exact problem. Before it told me I had to upgrade C# and C+, so I did, and nothing happened. I still got the message even afterwards. I...

Well folks, it's not often you see me start a thread in the support forum. But in my lazy days, I just don't feel like looking around for a solution myself. The problem is a long delay after login. I login, and then it takes 30+ seconds for my PC to be ready to use. The only start-up programs...

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Ever since the switch from Vista 64x, games have actually been running worse. Mostly it's just minor slowdown, but FIFA 10 is particularly bad, it's very choppy. I've already disabled a lot of unnecessary services and programs, defrag regularly and have the latest drivers. Here's my system...

Hi there! I've got this issue since yesterday. I was playing some games online and suddenly the internet connection dropped. Now the connection keeps dropping every minute (sometimes less, sometimes more). Here is what I tried: - System restore to date, when everything was ok - Driver...

Hi, I have been using Win 7 for more than a month and I see that my machine's getting slower and slower. I've used several application like Ccleaner, Wise Disk cleaner, advance system care to clean junk files regularly. I also defragment my drives everydays with Smart defrag. I have set some...

When doing some defragmenting on a Windows 7 machine, I notice that there is different passes that occur. Does anyone have information on what exactly is going on in each pass? I am curious as to what is going on in depth with these "passes". Thanks.

Hello, When windows 7 64bit runs for about 10 sec he access my floppy drive, also when i want to defrag my harddisk he first accesses the floppy drive. Any idea how to stop this ? virusscanner : microsoft security essentials no documents where linked to a:\

I have a Compaq Presario V2000, which has only 512MB of RAM. I just so happen to have Windows 7 Ultimate as well, which takes twice that much. I've got a theory that Windows 7 can run perfectly with just 512MB of RAM, here's how I made my discovery: I was given Windows 7 Ultimate for free by a...