performance issues

Every time my computer is using high CPU (30%+ constantly), after about 5 minutes or so (the more CPU being used, the faster it does this) the fan on my computer will start going really fast and if I don't close the program that is using the CPU then my computer will go to sleep by itself. I...

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I used to buy “Balance Bars”. I bought them for years. Then one day I noticed their proud announcement of a “bold new look”. That new look went beyond the box. The US RDA percentage of every vitamin and mineral went from 25% to 15%. They became a nutrition bar that, in its “new and improved”...

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum and I need help desperately! I have Windows 7x64 boot camped on my Imac (Snow Leopard) All is fine on the mac side but the windows side, not so much. When I boot into windows it starts, the windows logo comes up. Then the black screen with white cursor...

I'm having this BSOD after formating my laptop and installing some softwares later. I included all the dumps created by W7 tool and upload it here. The softwares I'm using is McAfee Antivirus, Nero, Chrome,Firefox,Ccleaner, Virtualbox, Foxit. ==================================================...

Hi Something that has been bugging me is that Windows 8 on my new computer is slow opening files and folders. I don't mean that it takes forever but when I click on almost anything in File Manager or on my desktop the waiting icon appears and it takes a couple of seconds for anything to...

hi, I have just been informed by brother that the BSOD happened after "setup.exe" - "googlechromeinstaller" was hogging 99℅ of cpu, in task manager, when for some reason decided to create dump file rather than ending proccess! (he,s a nugget of a boy) should i uninstall chrome? also when system...

Windows 7 was switched from Windows 7 Home premiere to Windows 7 Basic at the time. (Which is normal for it) I was closing a few programs, and they took a while to close. I got the not responding errors for one of them and let it close on its own so it wouldn't mess with my saved file. After it...

Hello everybody, got genuine OEM Win7 Home Premium (64bit) and a Pavilion dv7 laptop. Almost everytime, when I have certain folder opened, explorer.exe starts loading my CPU (13% usually... sometimes it can rise even further !)... explorer loads stays, until I terminate the process via task...

So, since yesterday evening, I've been having these really strange lock ups. I will be playing/using the computer and then Windows Explorer will lock up- as in, I cannot right click on the Desktop, I cannot open new programs, I cannot close programs. However, for a short time afterwards (1-3...

i just installed battlefield 3 and battlefield bad company 2 about 10 minutes in multi player game i get a bsod i have seen similar topics , and there might be a problem with my hardware drivers can anyone tell me how can i access the crash reports so i can upload them here and see whats wrong...

Hey guys, I just recieved another BSOD. The last time I did a "System Restore" which seemed to help. But this is starting to happen more and more now. I have a crash dump file that appear in c:\windows\minidump folder. I am uploading it here, for those who may wish to reveiw it...

Hi, i've been having random bsod's lately and need help :( While i play games, surf the internet and do pretty much anything these bsods will just appear. It started about a week ago. The BSOD's im getting are 0x00000f4 and 0x000000a. Im running windows 7 ultimate intel i7 870 (not...

Consider this scenario; You have a computer running Windows Vista or above You have a printer installed using a Version 3 or Version 4 XPS Printer Driver You open an XPS file in the XPS Viewer You print the file to the Printer using an XPS printer... Link Removed

I have a serious memory leak in nonpaged pool, which happen to be Irp packets. Here is the whole story. The system is Win7 Ultimate x64 which I primarily use to host some VirtualBox VMs. Around beginning of May I noticed that the box started to lock up and it was rock solid for almost a year...

Hello, I will try to be as detailed about my problem as possible. While browsing using Chrome I received frequent recurring unresponsive warnings, followed by screen corruption/artifacting, followed by my first BSod (In 7). Attached to this post is a screenshot of the DMB File as detected by...

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7 Processor Count: 4 RAM: 6050 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family, -1262 Mb Hard Drives: C: Total - 699443 MB, Free - 332975 MB...

I filled out my system specs and am including the requested files as instructed (includes dump files). Since last week, I have gotten a few BSODs. All but one (0x1000008e KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) were 0x000000c2 BAD_POOL_CALLER. Both types were apparently caused by Windows system files...

Fixes an issue in which the number of UI and GDI objects increases continuously on a computer that uses an Aero theme and that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs when you run an application that continuously displays new... Link Removed

I am having a problem with BSOD on a fresh and updated version of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. My computer is a Gateway GT5678 with a Nvidia 9800GT video card, AUZEN XPlosion 7.1 Sound card and a Western Digital Raptor 74GB Hard Drive as my main drive. I received 2 seperate BSOD while running...