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  1. shadows

    Windows 10 Windows 10 home freezes after update 21H1 ver. 19043.1288

    Hi Windows Forum I have been experiencing some rather annoying issues with my WIndows 10 Home Edition. At random times it either gives me a blue screen where it says "Your PC closed unexpected, please restart" or just this evening after opening Battlefield 3 while having a administrating program...
  2. G

    Windows 7 reboots - usually no BSOD (with BSOD history) win 7

    i have a pc that reboots itself sometimes, up to 3-4 times a day - usually no BSOD used for office - MS office / outlook / plus runs a monitor with security cams (no gaming) win 7 pro I7 6700k Asus strix z270g gaming gSkill 16gb f4-3200 gtx 1070 ti 8gb 1tb ssd 2tb sata 8gb sata done basic...
  3. whoosh

    VIDEO Can You Take a Shower With Your CPU?

    A clean machine :p
  4. Brendan McCourt

    Windows 10 'Apps and Features' taking up 890+ GB in my hard drive. Added up the space all my games are taking up and it only adds up to around 500 GB.

    My PC has a 2TB hard drive, and I currently only have 866GB free. When I go into Settings and go to storage, it shows that my 'Apps and Features' take up around 890GB, which seems extremely high. All the other categories seem fine, only taking up around 20GB. I went into Steam/Uplay/Origin and...
  5. B

    Windows 10 Cleaning out Downloads Files?

    My downloads file is growing. Any rules on deleting everything in the file? Does deleting a download also delete the program once it is installed?
  6. whoosh

    VIDEO It's been 10 YEARS since they cracked open this gaming PC. I'm going in!

    :p
  7. Ed1944

    Windows 10 Interpret SFC /scannow results

    My W10 Pro PC is running good at the moment. I decided to run system file checker, and got these results: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at windir\logs\CBS\CBS.log. For...
  8. tofu21

    Windows 8 How do I tell what ver of System Image Backup I have?

    I'm trying to do perform a system image backup on another pc. I upgraded to Pro a while ago. Is there a way to check the ver of Windows on the system image backup file I have? Thanks! :D
  9. A

    Windows 7 Can't delete "free space" partition!

    I used "AOMEI partition assistant" to shrink a partition, during this "Memory Dump" appeared, when I restarted the PC I found that this partition became locked, I deleted it, and it became free space... 1 - When I try to create a partition in that free space: -It says "not enough space"... 2...
  10. R

    Windows 7 How can i remove all duplicate transferred files????

    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...
  11. J

    Windows 10 Games lag after few months of smooth run!!!!

    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...
  12. S

    Fractal Design R5 - clean strip on up panel on moduvent cover

    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...
  13. brkkab

    Is there any way to uninstall Windows Sonic special sound ??????

    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...
  14. alti0204

    Windows 10 No wifi driver

    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...
  15. Jaap Verhage

    Why won't Windows accept a driver that worked a few weeks ago?

    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...
  16. B

    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Crashing Constantly

    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...
  17. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 My First Malware in Years...

    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...
  18. Mike

    CCleaner Compromised to Distribute Malware for Almost a Month

    Link Removed CCleaner Compromised to Distribute Malware for Almost a Month
  19. P

    Windows 7 Long boot after battery removal - How to change Power Plans to "NO battery"?

    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...
  20. T

    Windows 10 Delete in disk cleanup?

    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...
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