optimization

Hello i'm a pc gamer and I found that there is an option to adjust windows for the best performance while sacrificing appearance, but since I have been using the other setting for so long i'm just not use to the way my computer looks now. Is there an option or program that I can use so that my...

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Hi, Can anyone help me determine which programs/tasks are slowing down my laptop? My screenshots are below:

How do I keep my disk usage down at a low percentage. I'm constantly at 99% which it making my laptop very slow :(

I ran the windows MSRT and it kept on running, finally when it finished I viewed the report and there were thousands of bogus entries under win32, win64 & winNT. I believe they are associated with these two registration files but my system will not allow me to delete these items. Any advice...

Microsoft has a long history of collaborating with industry technology leaders to bring the world the best-in-class PC and device experiences. These efforts now also extend to enhancements in the web browsing experience as well. Intel is a great example of a key technology partner who is...

Have you ever set a breakpoint a few statements too late, or accidentally stepped over the function call that you wanted to step into, and wished that you could just reverse-execute the program in the debugger? This video from Microsoft Research describes an experimental time-traveling debugger...

This session covers the nuts and bolts of several key innovative compiler and runtime technologies we will be delivering in Visual Studio 2015 and its updates. New investments in the compiler and runtime space include: Improved optimization and auto-vectorization, /Guard secure code generation...

A couple of months back, we Link Removed that we had started development on Asm.js. Support for Asm.js Link Removed one of the top 10 most-requested items at the Link Removed on UserVoice since we launched it Link Removed. Since that time, we’ve made good progress, and in Windows 10 Insider...

My wife has a netbook with Windows 7 Starter. It is extremely slow - even though the only program she ever uses is Internet Explorer - period!!! What Services can I change the status of without affecting her use of the netbook? I have already used MSCONFIG and shut everything off there except...

I went from a 500GB hard drive to a SSD240GB drive. The SSD is very fast but could the smaller size be causing me to have a much slower download of web pages? IE sites like Breitbart and other conservative sites take forever to let me page down thru the information? It has been said that this is...

Greetings Microsoft, Since Windows largely dominates the OS most gamers, even regular Windows users own, I highly recommend the size of the OS you will be creating to be much smaller, I started gaming on Windows 98SE and it took up about 2GB of storage space, my performance with my games was...

My internet does not have a high 'upload'. So the time for sending video on my computer, for example, the other PCs connected to the network are failing. And that is committed to the download because YouTube, for example, uses all that upload speed is already low and let all the other PCs in the...

I have the standard 4gb of ram in my Win 7 pro media center 64 bit edition. Custom build. Crucial 64mb ssd updated with a 1.5 TB, and a 1 TB HDDs. My system is continuously using 93-97% ram memory according to Windows. I have tried turning off everything I can to lower the usage, stopping...

I've been enjoying my new computer for a while now, but windows keeps asking me to revert the colour scheme to improve performance Your computer's hardware and video card must meet hardware requirements to able to display Aero graphics. Check that your computer meets the minimum hardware...

Hello. Today i want to know how to play in Good Graphics? My Graphic card is Intel HD Graphics 4000 Whenever i play any of game i only lag, in MMO Games even i lag and when i turn on special effects of graphics in games it lags like patato I need help how can i increase my Gaming Peformance...

There's nothing quite like the Alienware Alpha. For just $500, it's a competent Windows gaming PC . But it should have been the flagship Steam Machine . The Alpha was designed to be a Linux game console with a gamepad good enough to replace a mouse and keyboard. As easy to use as PlayStation or...

I made my C partition 100GB thinking that i wouldn't need more than that for my windows and users folder, but it turns out that most of the time i am struggling to keep the 10% needed for the windows to function properly. Now while my User folder takes 18GB which is reasonable my Windows folder...

Well, i did system optimization with years used tool, Advanced System Care, version 8 by IObit. I did same things i did on other PC running Windows 8.1 (both x86 and x64) without issues. Here are problems it caused: 1. Hard to read window names 2. Unsharp minimize and close buttons 3. Totaly...

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