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I have duplicate transferred files from another computer , along with duplicate data from my WM6.5 phone and duplicate photos from my camera my hard drive. I am running Windows 7, and looking for a way to compile, sort out the many duplicate files I have created over time, by making numerous...

hi, i have a 8GB ram 1TB hard disk hp pc with graphics memory of 512mb. i have been using my pc for gaming and it worked well on almost all games i have tried. but recently most of the games started to lag and some of them even have a cutting frames. even the game with the lowest quality and...

Hello. I have an question. My case is Fractal Design R5. I have pc few months and of course which is normal many dust on case on up panel on moduvent cover. Screen from internet case and panel moduvent( not mine screen etc ). Case panel from screen is clean without dust but it is only for show...

Does anyone know if we can uninstall Windows Sonic special sound and Dolby Atmos for for headphones ? A; I don't use headphones and most likely never will. B: I have 5.1 speakers hooked to my PC. C; My motherboards Asus Sonic Studio & Sonic Radar have me covered even if I got headphones and...

Recently my laptop can't connect to wifi nteworks, there aren't any network shown and i know there are since my phone connects properly. So i checked the adapter window and there isn't a wifi adapter, only an ethernet one. I check device manager and there's only a Realtek PCIE family...

Hello everyone, this will be a rather lengthy post. Please bear with me, as I don't know what information is pertinent to my problem and what isn't. I have a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop which has been running 64-bits Windows 10 satisfactorily for quite some time now. However, its original 250 GB...

Hi, my computer keeps crashing after turning it on, and it keeps giving me The Blue Screen of Death. It's been like this for an entire week and a half, and I reset it around 3 weeks ago since it had the same problem before, and I thought it may have fixed it...but it didn't. I can't open an app...

Hi Today Windows Defender came up with Malware for the first time ever! It found "Trojan:Win32/peals.flcl" When I looked at the location it said it was in a file called Desktop Lara that's been on my computer for years. If offered to remove it so I did. I then ran Malwarebytes and...

Link Removed CCleaner Compromised to Distribute Malware for Almost a Month

Until recently I had in my notebook a battery. I removed it due to defects and don't want to buy a new one. Unfortunately the boot process slows down dramatically. It now takes approx. 5-10 minutes until Windows 7 shows the Login screen. I guess its because the hardware related detection parts...

I have a Lenovo G510 PC and have for some time been upgraded to Windows 10, but have problems including With Windows Update, when an error message appears and it does not update. I have run disk cleanup and see that there are many files etc that I can delete. The 3 pictures show it. It is among...

I left GTA V to download overnight last night, but my computer restarted during the download, preventing the game from finishing the download. I'm now looking for a way to turn this off. I still want the updates to download automatically, but I don't want them to install and restart my computer...

Genuinely a question with no idea where to begin, how to phrase question, how to resolve. The basics, Win7 upgraded to Win 10, but problem began in Win7. Current status... Win 10 on my son's PC, many many games, Steam Account, apps, typical teenager, albeit high spec hardware. Said machine is...

Hello, again. I was wondering if it's advisable to run SFC /scannow on a regular basis, or only if your PC is experiencing issues, sort of similar to running an AV program regularly. What say you? Thanks...Ed

Is this usual the tempeature of the graphics card. Thank you.

Hi, How do I remove RealPlayer Cloud, since it doesn't appear on the program list in the Control Panel? If I try to delete the folders <Real> and <RealNetworks>, it displays the message "Folder or file in it open by another program". Thx, Boss

I have an installation of win7 Ultimate x64 that is going wobbly. So I want to run repair on it. But I can't find the original disks. found the microsoft site where I can download a win7 ISO if I give them the key from that machine. That's fine. And I'll do it. But just wonder - that will...

Well, Windows 7 fans, here is something new I've never witness before. This came about when I couldn't get any WIN 7 Updates installed after I removed from Windows 10 back to Windows 7 Home. I remembered that I have burned three DVD of the Windows 7 Home OS, and had them other than the...

I've been cleaning up files and finding duplicates etc on the PC today. And I was wondering why I still have IE 11, Windows Fax and Scan, and XPS Services/Viewer. I use Firefox (primary) and Chrome. I open up Edge now and then to check out any updates (and eagerly waiting for third party...

Dear All, I have been searching a solution for this strange issue for long. I'm an IT Admin in a windows domain where few PCs are affected with this issue. When users delete files, it gets deleted permanently and do not go to Recycle Bin. Users do get alert that file will be deleted...