performance issues

Attempted to update to 8.1 yesterday and the store just won't open. Every time I click on the Store tile it doesn't get past the green introductory screen before just disappearing (crashing).. Have restarted several times and used the link-through on the Windows 8.1 site. Also, I have since...

Apologies if I am posting this in the wrong forum. I'm hoping that the below makes sense to someone. I'm not the most technical person when it comes to operating systems. My Samsung RV510 (Windows 7) is two years old and has always functioned perfectly in terms of speed, function etc. Very...

Hi, I have Windows XP SP1. When I turn on my laptop (ACER), open Windows 7, after a few seconds the memory usage of explorer.exe increases significantly to reach 2Gb after a couple of minutes. Then, the system is very slow and I have to kill explorer.exe. I tried mostly everything: - clean...

I bought a used Dell E6500 with an Intel dual core processor (supposedly) but Win 7 Task Manager only finds one core. I've got other computers running dual core and quad core processors, and Performance > CPU history > One Graph per CPU will read as many processors as the processor title says it...

Problems on my friend's laptop, which I'm trying to fix. First problem. Boot up (~35 seconds) and I'm on desktop. Open Start Menu and click on a program (say for example, IE). It loads for a bit, then the icon on the taskbar disappears. Let's open a different program, Chrome. Loads for a bit...

Hi, After clean dust & rebuild my PC had a bit of trouble with the PSU which I sorted out. I booted win8 ok but on next boot for 5-10mnts was "analyzing the PC" then another 5-10m said "will auto repair PC" then after 10-15m said " cannot repair, go advanced" another 10-15 m said "no good shut...

Hi, I'm the new IT tech at our office, and I have been asked an odd question a few times now. Someone asks why their computer is slow, it takes 3 minutes to open an excel spreadsheet for example. Typically it's an older core2duo processor with windows XP. Can you tell me what you would...

I have used computer for 9 years. My first computer is a DIY desktop computer, the second one is ThinkPad T43, and the current is HP Pavilion g4. I didn't care the outdated drivers on first several years. With the accumulation of computer knowledge , I learned that old driver are related with...

I've recently been having an issue with my Dell Inspiron N5110 running Windows 7 Home. It has been running very hot lately (I've been concentrating on keeping the intake and exhaust vents clear while using it and shutting it down when not in use). Yesterday, a few minutes after clicking on a...

Everything was working great for almost 6 months but 3 weeks before while my pc was idle suddenly some graphic display glitches came up and my keyboard and mouse froze up, so I had to do a hard reset by pressing the power button. There used to be GSOD when windows login screen comes up. If I...

I've been going crazy the past week about this error. I've searched every post out there for a solution to this problem but every step I take to solve it seems to fail at one point also most of the other posts seem to have slightly different problems. It all started about a week ago when I was...

Hi folks. My system specs are - Compaq Presario SG3470IL Desktop PC windows 7 ultimate service pack 1 32-bit intel core 2 duo @2.60 ghz 4gb ddr2 ram sapphire radeon hd 6450 1gb ddr3 dx11 graphics card motherboard - msi boston 7525/775 LGA socket PCI-Ex 1.0 chipset - p35/g33/g31...

Hi All, My PC was running great but when I started it from overnight sleep, which woke at the normal speed, I as always did a manual update to Avast definitions. It did the download as quick as always, but then during the "saving package" it hung. I left it like that for some minutes, and then...

Just installed Win8 Pro and bought the Media Center add on. I run an i7-3770k, 16Gb ram, GTX 780 3Gb video card and have 2 25" monitors. Now when I play a game on display 1 and have Media Center running Live TV on display 2, Media Center stutters, freezes. As soon as I close the game on...

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Core i7 3820 ASUS Sabertooth X79 Motherboard 16gb Samsung 30nm RAM 2x Diamond AMD HD 7970s in XF 2x Samsung 830 256gb SSDs Seasonic X 1050 PSU Custom Liquid Cooling loop Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Lately I have been crashing every time I start up a steam game, specifically Metro: LL, Borderlands...

Hi there, I've been all over trying to solve this issue and nobody seems to have any answers. Hopefully you all will be able to help =P My System: EVGA SR-2 2x Xeon E5620 2x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (both in Push-Pull) 24GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz RAM Zotac GTX 670 4GB OS HDD: Western Digital...

I was minding my own business yesterday, playing a bit of WoW and suddenly my laptop gets a blue screen of death, first time ever. It's a relatively new laptop so i was a bit shocked. I tried to reboot but kept getting the 0xc00000e9 error, i looked up how to fix this and most sites said to let...

I started receiving this BSOD this past Tuesday after downloading Window Update files.Link Removed I tried to upload a zip file of this info but i couldn't get it to upload. I have 92 processes running at a time. After downloading of the update files, i was prompted to restart my pc which i did...

I set up a dual boot on a 500 GB SSD. Cloned Windows 7 from a smaller SSD then installed Windows 8 on a second partition. It takes a full 60 seconds to reach the dual boot screen. It then loads very quickly. Here is what I've done to try and correct the problem: 1. Refreshed windows 8 2. removed...