performance issues

About 2-3 months ago all of the sudden my Windows 10 started behaving very differently and I'm not sure if it is something that Microsoft forced on me after an update or I inadvertently changed something. Basically the way you switch between applications changed in that I can no longer just...

Hi All, Good Day. I have 2 users using Dell 7270 laptop 64 bit Windows 7 keep getting your "computer is on low memory error", and sometime the laptop will just have no display and turn off. They are 8GB in RAM on windows 7 and 10, less then few month of using, got once I have checked the Task...

Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD it insists its a SSD. My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order. Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not...

My Toshiba notebook has a yellow triangle on the "Trusted Execution Engine interface" driver, in Device manager. The error message says it has not started, I have tried to update but it just says driver installed is the one, so, firstly what is this driver for? and will it hurt to uninstall the...

Microsoft have recently identified issues with high cpu and high memory usage in certain Windows 10 builds (1703 isn't affected... Yet. ). Builds which are affected are: Windows 10 version's 1607, 1511, and 1507. Apparently this is down to recent updates which are named in the quote's below...

Hi, I did try to update kb4025339 under Windows Update but it just did get stuck on 5% on the prepering to install.. So I did download the file: windows10.0-kb4025339-x64_463d31d0ef8c18800ad5e5cc09927b263a99c352-msu and I did try to install it manuelly. But now it has been stuck on...

I'm having BSOD whenever I run BlueStacks and sometimes when I run a game or Microsoft Edge, but after the crash when the system restarts everything works fine even BlueStacks and I don't encounter any BSOD until I shut down the PC. After shutdown when I again run BlueStacks the cycle repeats...

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 don't know if these programs cancel each other out or what. But I have used the different ones to get rid of different issues the other two didn't seem to catch. Can anyone tell me if this is going to cause more havoc than it's worth?

My computer is an Asus motherboard with i5 cpu, 2Tb hhd and 8Gb ram. I am running Windows 10 Pro. I have 2 Humax PVR's connected via wireless DLNA. I have been using the latest version of VLC player and have been able to access both there hard drives to view videos and pictures for several...

Hi I just booted up my computer and what do I see on my desktop? An icon to open Google Chrome. Why is this weird, because I haven't downloaded and and installed Google Chrome or anything else in a while. I quite using chrome about a year ago because for some reason it didn't work with...

Hi folks there's a service called Software protection it eats my CPU it take about 30% of my CPU when it works , and it works when I startup any Office program it may also when I startup my Internet Browser The only solution to solve my problem is to take it .exe from...

Hello, I'm new here I just wanted to ask for some help and assistance over the issues I've faced with my laptop. Specs: Processor: Intel Core i5-6220U Ram: 8gb Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Here's my Diagnostic-Performance Events: Boot Performance Monitoring This application took longer than...

I got a app crash often, so i start look at task manager and realized that every time it crashes in "reserva nao paginada" "reserve not paginated" (i think its virtual memory), that value keep increasing with time, and when it goes higher than 91-92 (the highest value its stable) happens the...

I'm at the edge of giving up. No matter what I do, what I uninstall or install, how many antivirus scans I do, how closely I watch for what's causing spikes, I can't fix these performance issues. Huge swathes of my CPU and Memory usage are lost on totally invisible processes. I have 8gb of RAM...

Initial OS Windows XP. 250Gb HDD, 1 Partition C:. 4/2014 upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. Still using single partition 250Gb C:. A year ago experienced various hangups and performance issues. Ran SeaTools by Seagate. Had HDD failures on long tests. Installed Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250Gb using...

Ive been using win7 for about 6 months now. Before that I was using xp for 15 years. Im having problems with: 1-Search; the status bar gets to 99% pretty fast, then it's literally hours before the search finishes. Why? 2-Ive been using firefox for over 10 years now. I always set it to...

I have Windows 8.1 Pro installed upgraded recently from Windows 7. Unfortunately I have a problem with the Store app constantly running at startup and it does not go away unless I manually Terminate it from the Task Manager. It seems to be ingrained with my Microsoft Account. Because even...

NVIDIA released new 368.39 drivers today It fails to install install on my Windows 10 Pro x64 pc, even after runiing Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode. Then I tried all past NVIDIA drivers going back to 364.72. Every driver fails to install. I've tried this route over 10 times in 2 hours...

When I boot up windows 7, an hour glass appears. But of late it takes longer and longer for the hour-glass to disappear. I understand that some function/app or otherwise is in the background, possibly loading. How can I find out what is running in the background that the system is trying...