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Link Removed May 1st, 2012: 25% off. Use coupon code: WINDOWS7FORUMS Optimize every aspect of Windows 7 with the System Advisor or manually. Repair corrupt registry entries and defragment the registry. Disable and enable services based on how you are using your computer. Adjust and edit...

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[Solved] Difference in space usage between W7 Home Premium & Ultimate ​Hi There, Can somebody please explain why Windows 7 Home Premium ( on my laptop ) is taking up more space than the Ultimate version on my desktop ? Both systems are installed, along with the application software, in the C...

Windows 7 has a number of tools such as Disk Cleanup to help keep your system running smoothly, and it also includes a System Maintenance troubleshooter. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Hello. I need help from someone who knows what I need to do.... My Compaq CQ60-615DX Notebook has just all of a sudden started running really slow for the past week. It all started last tuesday when I tried to log off and it had to install 22 updates. After the updates I uploaded some Zumba...

Details said to be leaked from the Windows 8 Milestone 1 build show the ability to sync certain data online, a more robust Task Manager, and an improved version of the Windows Disk Cleanup tool. Link Removed

Freeware verses crapware: Optimization programs. Hello everyone, Starting today, I’ll be writing a series of articles on the comparisons of freeware, crapware and commercial software, and how freeware often times comes out on top. For my first article, I decided to compare the...

By Link Removed - Invalid URL Once you've installed Service Pack 1 for Windows 7, did you know there's around 1GB of setup files cluttering up your hard disk? You'll need these files should you ever want to uninstall SP1, but we'd only recommend doing so if you needed to correct a problem...

Hello there! This is the first time I find myself asking for help on an internet forum so I really don't know what to do any more. The computer was working until yesterday, ocasionally reseting (it had been doing that for a while, but it was once every two or three weeks) so I ran a virus scan...

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...

I used the disk clean function and thought I would be saving more space on the drive by checking the compress feature. Now when I boot up, after the Dell window the message shows up on a black screen, like a 'c' prompt screen HTGCM is compressed hit ctrl - alt - del to restart. When I do that...

Link Removed I've used disc analyze and it shows 4 tmp files that are 4gb in size and they are in C:\$Recycle.Bin\ and I would like to know what are they and if necessary how can I erase them bay the way my computer feels sluggish and my internet traffic is huge (it shouldn't be) so I was...

I have read the 20 or so issues from all over the internet about Windows 7 image thumbnail cache problems, this is different from all of them. Whenever I open the pictures, videos, or any other folder, Windows takes a while to load all of the thumbnails each time. I have only 650 pictures in...

The blue screen started when i 1st got mass effect 1. I had dozens of blue screens with the game and me1 was recently uninstalled. I started playing mass effect 2 which i had on my computer before ME1 was installed. Anyways Me2 never blue screened on me but now ever since installing and playing...

As many of you are aware Windows 7 has it's own Disk Cleaner for cleaning stuff like temporary files. This little app can be found via the Start menu although a much better version can be found via 'cmd prompt'. (see screen shot). To set up the advanced cleaner right click on cmd prompt and...

Hi all i have a RECYCLER folder on my "D" drive and it contains 5 folders inside these folders are about 12 GB size (and by the way i've only 2 drives on my hard disc) i've read that each RECYCLER folder when i enter these folder i found them empty so where comes this disc space (12 gb)from? ...

Adobe doesn't (at the moment) support viewing pdf documents as thumbnails in 64 bit systems. Here's how you can get to see the thumbnails in your 64 bit system. First a couple of Windows System settings to check. GoTo Start, R-Click (My)Computer, Properties, then on the left hand side of the...

Hi Folks, I'm posting this to illustrate how I replaced\removed XP from my system in favor of Win 7. First some background. I've been using Win 7 since the beta as part of a multiboot setup on my Acer laptop. The other MS OS was my old XP install. My old XP was located at the...

In Disk Management it show my hard drive disk 0 as No Name (OEM Partition), Recovery, and OS (C:), so my question is how do I format my hard drive, so that I do not have the recovery partion since I have the recovery disk, so I can get more disk space and reinstall windows? The reason I want to...

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...