I have a problem with my computer locking up with the keyboard and mouse unresponsive and a horrible sound coming from the speakers (I think). This has happened 5 times since I upgraded to a SSD. The first two times it happened the computer was really hot. Fan Speed showed that it was in the...
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Hey guys i'm trying to clean up and remove programs installed
i have a couple questions
1) do i need ALL of these (img below)
2) if not what do i keep
3) i noticed when i remove programs not everything is removed. things like app data docs and all that. is there a good program that will help to...
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Lately my elderly dad's machine has been taking a really, really long time to get started, and everything runs slow for a good while after startup. This is on an HP Pavilion HPE, model h8-1114, which originally had Win7 on it but that he let update itself to Win10. What should I be looking...
Hi. I know how to disable creation of thumbs.db, and now know how to delete them locally (using Disk Cleanup), but some were created on external drives before I had disabled creation of them, and it seems Disk Cleanup isn't able to access these drives. Any advice on deleting all thumbs.db files...
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