optimization

  1. Samsung Magician Update

    Samsung Magician has been updated to 4.3 along with firmware updates too.. Ref: http://www.maximumpc.com/samsungs_magician_43_software_supercharges_your_840_pro_and_evo_ssds Download: http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisite/SSD/us/html/about/SSD840EVO.html
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    Windows 8 low disk space issue

    A warning keeps saying that I have low disk space. Free or paid programs should I take? I really wonder which folders occupy the most space. These huge hidden files almost drive me crazy.
  3. How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows

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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.
  5. Disk Cleanup Wizard addon lets users delete outdated Windows updates on Windows 7 SP1

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    Windows 7 explorer.exe with high memory usage

    Hi, I have Windows XP SP1. When I turn on my laptop (ACER), open Windows 7, after a few seconds the memory usage of explorer.exe increases significantly to reach 2Gb after a couple of minutes. Then, the system is very slow and I have to kill explorer.exe. I tried mostly everything: - clean...
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    Windows 8 You real developers are lucky

    So, I decided to spend today dedicated to just optimizing my apps. Like shortening them, etc. So, I went through my older apps and oh my goodness thousands of lines of codes that were unnecessary. I managed to put all the common subroutines into a class and voila I shortened the codes by...
  8. "The Security Center service can't be started" error message in Windows 7 or in Windows Vista

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  9. Windows 7 how to remove acrotray (and other start up services)

    Hi everyone, I like to keep my comp to boot up as clean as possible. I have a problem whenever I remove acrotray or itunes serviecs in Start up. I already remove it from MSCONFIG. The problem is the next time I log in, it will generate a second acrotray startup. This second item will be...
  10. How to Automate the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP and Windows 7

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  11. PerfectDisk Review: Slow Computers Are A Dark Problem Resolved

    Download: http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-3605745-10922438 Understand how PerfectDisk optimizes SSD's: http://blog.raxco.com/2011/06/20/ssd-optimization-not-ssd-defrag/ A dark bane consumes the world of computers, and that bane is slow hard disk performance. The bottlenecks of disk I/O and disk...
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    Windows 7 GPU Over Use

    Unless I am playing games from XP or older my GPU runs at 80-99% usage. When I am on my desktop the GPU idles at 0% and depending on which Graphics card I have in either 30-35 degrees Celsius or 40-50 degrees Celsius. When I am in-game though on any game but the old XP ones no matter which...
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    Windows 7 Very slow boot time

    I noticed this a couple of months ago that my boot time went from about 40 secs to now being over 100 secs on a good day . Done all the disable pragramms in msconfig to the point that I only have AVG still enabled . I have read loads of google to try and fix this but nothing works ...
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    Windows 7 Is your Win7 slow starting?

    Hello everyone, First if I am posting this in the wrong section feel free to move it. My win 7 ultimate after a fresh clean install would start up in 1 min 15 sec. After a few months the start up time increased to 3 mins.30sec! After trying all the obvious solutions, Malware check, spyware...
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    Windows 7 Improve boot times in Windows

    In Windows Vista, 7 & 8, there is a little be known defrag function that can drastically improve boot times under certain circumstances. If you open cmd and type defrag /?, you will see a list if available commands. However, there is a hidden one which is not shown and that is -b. This command...
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    Windows 7 Prefetch cache boot times

    Hi! I've been looking into the boot time of my laptop (ASUS N71Jq), which I've had for about 1 year now. I measured 2:30 to 3:00 from pressing power to desktop. Doing this I've found that the boot time for the Prefetch cache has a rather long degradation: - EventData StartTime...
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    Windows 7 Can I disable the following processes to save on bandwidth?

    Using Resource Monitor I see that the following processes have constant network activity. I have very limited bandwidth available and I was wondering that if the following processes are not needed can they be turned off in the startup menu or through some other means? svchost.exe...
  18. Following Spamhaus DDoS Attack, Action Taken. We Seek Your Feedback!

    Hello everyone, Tonight, we implemented CloudFlare, which uses its own content delivery network and content processing. Were the site to go down, content would continue to be available for a number of days, even if our servers that process that data goes down. This is not the first time that we...
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    Windows 8 Windows not using all RAM even though no limit?

    Hello everyone, I seem to have a problem at least i think i have a problem with my computer. The picture below is a picture of my computers information WHILE rendering a 3D-text object. I have done some research and cant seem to find a answer or im not sure what to do but i have gathered the...
  20. Speed up my computer

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