pc performance

Does anybody use this utility cleaner ? Wise Care 365 Link Removed I tried it on my PC and it actually made it run better :) It's free and cleaned more than CCleaner. :)

i got a new cpu assembled about 15 days ago intel core i5 2320 3.00 ghz 8 gb of ram saphire amd radeon hd 5450 2 gb ddr3 graphics card yesterday after i shut down the computer i got a dark blue screen which dissapeared suddenly the first or second line read that windows has detected a serious...

Hi all i'm running Windows 7 Professional x64 and i'm having some trouble with my SSD. When i boot up my PC, windows 7 boots and everything is fine. After a few minutes i see the disk usage led permanently ON and the PC blocks, so i can't use it. This continues for about 3-4 minutes, then...

Ok, before telling anything, I am going to tell my computer specs . Please tell me if i need to attach some files. Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 Intel Core 2nd Generation i5 2400 processor 8 GB ram (But I have 32 bit system, so only 3,49 GB usable) Nvidia GeForce 550 ti graphics card So the...

Hello, I just received two BSODs this afternoon, both times had different errors. First was Pool_header, the second was Pool_caller. I don't know much about computers, but I am capable of figuring out how to fix things. Here is my PC: Newegg.com - iBUYPOWER Gamer Extreme 560D3 Desktop PC Phenom...

My PC is pretty new ( 6 month ) and I got a blue screen problem. It appear randomly and when it appear, my pc shot down after the blue screen. When I reboot my pc and it open correctly after a blue screen.... I got this error message : Problem signature : Problem event name : BlueScreen...

I've always wondered if background tasks continue to run while the PC is in sleep mode or hibernation. Are there actions that I can take to wake it up? What happens if I'm running a scan and the PC goes into hibernation or sleep mode? Please help me out........

Alright, so I just got my new computer. And whenever I turn my computer on, it goes past the "Post Screen" and then continues to the point where it should boot. But, this is exactly what happens: This screen, also called the "Black Screen of Death" continues to blink for hours. I'm not...

Hi, my PC has recently started crashing when i play games. i dont think i installed something that may have altered the registry state or something, but i used to play games without any problems before. A couple of times even crashed while viewing a movie on VLC!! the blue screen doesnt say...

This started, that I noticed, maybe four weeks ago. I select shutdown from the start menu. Desktop starts closing down. Get the waiting for programs screen. Monitor blacks out, All fans stop. Silence. Sounds good, unless I move the mouse, then everything starts up again. It hasn't actually...

Strange problem about a month ago maybe once every 4 to 10 days the PC boots up and all the characters are strange, instead of the usual alpabet they are spercial characters. I do a system restore and all is fine. If anyone has any thoughts on this as how to solve this short of reloading...

Hola Win7 world! For some reason, I have a problem with my computer's display brightness. Sometimes whenever I start up the computer, or change to another's profile (either the admin who is me or the other two normal users I have), the brightness goes a little dimmer. All three of us are used...

For several months I have had problems each day when asked to install "Windows Updates", some days I get 4 or 5 updates or more, for a long time it installed all except one. This has now expanded so I have three updates that will not install for some reason. It creates a restore point then tries...

My pc keeps freezing, crashing, and experiencing BSOD. It would freeze on the very first screen on the monitor, the screen with F10, F11, F9, F12, and Esc options; it would freeze at the next screen, the screen with "Starting Windows," and its animation; it would feeze after I typed in my...

Hi All I recently purchased a Samsung Laptop, everything worked well for the first 3 days. Yesterday I installed Avast Internet Security Version 6.0 (I had a free license available) Also right before shutting off the pc (for the last time it worked correctly) Windows 7 installed 61 updates...

I've just started to encounter a problem with Win7. My PC is fine until I connect to the net using wireless. I use a dongle and can connect it to the PC without issue and everything works correctly. However when I connect to the internet my pc freezes and thats it I need to...

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Hello guys!! I have experiencing a BSOD the other day after overclocking my system and downloading a couple of programs, im only getting BSOD when i play BFBC2, i overclocked my i7 950 from 3.06 to 4.2 and set it to default after my system crashed a couple of times, im not sure if overclocking...

I've had my computer since September. It was a custom build but the guy who did it knows his stuff. Started off ok, but I soon started getting occasional BSOD. These became increasingly frequent and now it's so bad I'm lucky if I can go 5 minutes without a crash. Some blue-screens restart the...

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