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1. Would open AC & Maintenance would show nothing. Occasionally it would but, most time, nothing, none of the normal, usual info. Had noticed this behavior over the last couple of days. This evening... 2. Asking for Action Centre in Start menu Search produced TWO listings. A faint grey...

To invest in a hard drive for my 4 year old Toshiba A665 Laptop? When I try to "Rate This Computer" , it hangs up when it gets to 'Primary Hard Disk". Therefore no Performance Check. I like the laptop, keyboard and the larger screen, so is it worth saving it and what would it cost to do...

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What software better for defragmentation Windows OS. Auslogics, Paragon, other or Windows defragmentator? thnx

I bought my wife an Ex-display HP G62 laptop from Tesco direct 2 years ago, she has began to complain that it is running really slow. I've checked and it shows that there are updates for windows, however it will not even open windows update program. I have a feeling that Tesco probably set up a...

Unfortunately Windowsforum.com suffered an extreme spam event at the weekend. The spammer initially struck Friday by managing to create a large number of false accounts. These accounts went unnoticed until Sunday by which time every account had profile posts showing. As soon as they were...

hello, all I received a custom built computer for Christmas almost a year ago, in that I won't be able to name my system specs or hardware, and it was working perfectly fine up until a few weeks. I don't recall installing or uninstalling any important programs but here is an outline of the...

Hi, Does anyone know any good maintenance software for Windows? I currently use ccleaner and it's great, but I want to know if there is any other software out there that might provide more functionality and is free. Thanks! :)

I have a 1991 Chev 3/4 ton truck, a 1998 GMC 1/2 ton, a 1985 Ford Continental Mark 7 car. The car has only 120,000 k's on it. Look at it... Link Removed

Any risk in losing anything by running both an internal and external disk check via this method? Thanks

Was having problems for the first time with my desktop over the weekend - Windows 7, Quad Core, 16GB memory, GTX 550Ti graphics card, enhanced power supply. I think it may have been a result of some trouble I've been having with an external hard drive. It completely froze up computer every few...

Hi there lately I've got BSOD right after I play BF3, each time I either quit the gameplay and hit my crome browser, my pc crashes and goes into BSOD. I've never had this kind of problem before, it started some months ago, and I ignored it, now I keep getting it when I close BF3 and hit exit /...

On the server back-end level: PHP has been updated. We are no longer using MySQL (see: MariaDB) We are no longer using apache (see: Litespeedtech Enterprise Web Server) A significant number of maintenance tasks were performed. Mobile API was updated. GTMetrix score page speed rating of 92...

My wife has had a Windows 8 laptop (basic spec for internet and other light use) for just over a year. Recently it appears a little sluggish and not as "sharp" as it was when it was new. I have done some basic maintenance (used CCleaner, clear temp files & dedrag'd he disk) but it still seems...

About half an hour ago I got a random pop up saying windows explorer.exe has stopped working when I was typing in the start search bar, I was trying to type in cpu, but it froze before I could typed the u. I have norton antivirus and superantispyware so im positive it is not a virus. Its only...

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I was having trouble opening Word docs so tried repair and other things. Nothing seemed to work until I read a thread that said to file the irregularities down that are created with use on the two posts. When I removed the magnetic top of the wireless mouse and saw these two posts, left click...

A box pops up when windows is in screen saver mode. And it says Microsoft system maintenance Blogger internationalnotepad.BlogSpot.com not found. How the heck do I find where this is coming from. Thanks Mark F.

Hi My liquid cooling system is leaking. I got the message when a blue screen opened up and said that there was a problems and my computer was shutting down. When I booted backup I was forced into setup where I got another message saying that my CPU had exceeded 90C and had shut down to...

Hello, Our understanding no more updates to XP, however we received a automatic update on 4/27/14. See below log. Did MS change their minds because of the MS IE security issue today? Thanks, Technut 2014-04-27 03:00:10:031 1936 ecc AU Forced install timer expired for scheduled...