pc performance

Today, the Windows 11 2022 Update rolls out in 190+ countries. The last few years have brought enduring changes in the ways we live, work and learn, with the PC playing a more critical role in our daily lives. Online options that didn’t previously exist for meetings, appointments, everyday tasks...

Hi, I want to stop the windows automatic update feature, but from what I can see it is already disable, I am sick and tired of turning my PC on just to have it in a go slow mode because its more interested in updating things and running virus checkers instead of doing what I want it to do, any...

For some reason both Bing Maps and Google Maps have stopped working on both our Windows 10 PCs. The start pages load but then none of the controls respond and you cannot locate places or get a route between 2 locations. Why is this?

Hello! Windows Explorer crashes on my desktop every time I wake the PC from sleep. It starts up again after 2-3 seconds, but some of my taskbar icons disappear (like FX Sound Enhancer, AMD Adrenaline etc.). I am not sure if this started happening after an update or not, but as far as I can...

Hi.....this problem started a few weeks ago on my pc where on updating before shut down, it showed, "we couldn't complete updates; undoing changes". I went on to microsoft support and been through the following stages; 1. Ran the network troubleshooter 2. Ran the Windows Update troubleshooter...

Alright so I get this error "App chased dump generated" few times when playing a game than I get BSOD saying VIDEO SCHEDULER INTERNAL ERROR.My computer runs 2 graphic cards one is: INTEL(R) HD GRAPHICS 620 and the other NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 950M. I have updated Nvidia to the latest driver version...

At this time, my PC W10Pro). I decided to run system file checker and came up with this result: 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 example...

Hello, I purchased a branded MSI system in Oct, 2018 with Win 10 preinstalled and since then i have constant and daily BSOD events. I use the PC mainly for work (graphic design), browsing and playing but the events do not seem to be related to a specific activity. I manually checked for all...

For a while now my computer has been freezing up, quite odd freezes as well. I can move my mouse, and interact with some objects, but i cant do things such as open folders/files/start menu. If i have a browser open, i can still scroll on the page, but if i click on anything it wont load. its...

I need help with slow booting of win10.. 1.my pc1 is connected via network cable to my router 2. my second pc2C is minix neo win10 media device, connected to same router 3. on that PC2 neo win10 media device i have usb disk1 which has shared movies and series folder 3.i have usb disk2 shared via...

Recently just rebuilt my workstation PC to be a lot better for this school year (I'm an engineering student). My hardware is as follows: AMD Ryzen 7 1800x CPU AMD WX Radeon Pro 5100 GPU Samsung 860 Evo 512gb SSD 2 WD 2tb HDD in RAID setup ASUS Rog Strix B350-F motherboard Corsair Vengeance RGB...

I am looking to buy a prebuilt desktop for 1080p 60fps gaming (e sports and "AAA"). I have found an Acer GX desktop for $1300 AUD ( ~ $1000 USD). The specifications are: i7 7700 16 gb ddr4 ram 1 TB HDD 256 GB SSD 500 W Power supply Gtx 1060 3 gb. These are the best specs I can give. The part...

Hello. I am just asking. Maybe this is coincidence and i am worrying about nothing. So listen... 2 days ago after turning on kitchen, fuse was tripped and i get power outage. When power back after this i booted pc fine but i saw that Windows 10 desktop refresh changed itself from 144hz to lower...

I shared two drives on my PC so I could play my media on my Raspberry Pi KODI box and one drive opens an Explorer window every 20 minutes on my PC. One drive I shared was F: which is a partition on an internal SATA drive, it never opens a window. The other was J: an external USB drive. The...

After changing the video card the second monitor does not show up in screen resolution & both screens show the same thing. How do I get the screen resolution to show both screens like before so that I can select what shows up in the second screen. Home build, Asus P5K Premium WiFi,Intel, CPU...

Everything was going well until about a month ago when for some reason it decided to start freezing...kernel power issue, so I tried a clean boot and that hasn't worked and nor has running in safe mode. I'm running win 7 64bit ultimate, motherboard Gigabyte GA 990FX UD5, GTX 750i gpu, 4 sticks...

My PC was extremely sluggish and it was so slow it was a long struggle to open one file or run a program. I ran anti virus tests etc and eventually reinstalled Windows. It is better but still freezes on opening a folder and whereas as before this happened boot time was 30 seconds or less now...

Hello I posted somewhere and forgot; it had to do with moving from 7 to 10 I have a pc that came with 7 . if I install 7 and upgrade all the BIOS(would be like A3>A7) drivers etc to beef it up then move to 8 then 8.1 and finally 10 would my PC be better off? I moved from 7 up but never updated...

The performance requirements for VR games are much higher than for typical PC games. So if you're thinking about buying an HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift, wouldn't it be good to know that your PC is ready for VR? VRMark includes two VR benchmark tests that run on your monitor, no headset required...

Hi Today my computer suddenly froze up, I was in the process of deleting some files in file manager, not anything unusual at all. Unfortunately it wouldn't respond to Crtl, Alt, Delete, so after trying everything I could I did a hard shutdown. When it rebooted it said that the boot sector was...