performance problems

Not sure what is going on here. I had firefox running and suddenly this browser has taken a turn for the worse...adverts up the ying yang. Now it appears I have lost functionality of Windows IE9 browser. Browser says I have IE10 installed...I hit the home icon and I am taken to Firefox. What...

When attempting to burn ISO files from Windows Explorer, Windows Disc Image Burner takes an extremely long time to do anything then errors out saying: The disc image didn't burn successfully because an error occurred. (Error code: 0x8007045D) I have attempted to use Imgburn but it will not...

I am extremely tired from posting this. My laptop specs are: Dell XPS L502x Intel I7 Intel HD Graphics Family Nividia Geforce GT 540m Realtek High Defintion Audio Okay, so whenever I game, eventually and randomly, my game will freeze and loop the last sound. I'm not even kidding, it loops the...

Over the past couple of weeks, my pc has randomly started restarting with no bsod or message when the computer reboots as to why it restarted. The timings of the restarts are completely random. Sometimes it will restart 10 minutes after powering while I'm just browsing the internet. Other times...

I've been having an ongoing (about 2 months) problem with my laptop getting the BSOD after returning from sleep mode, specifically when unplugging it. When returning from sleep mode, the screen will take longer than normal to turn back on and show the log in screen. After that, it seems like it...

Last post I Made one of our members looked through my minidumps and told me that I had a problem with my graphics driver and realtek PCI card reader as well as a outdated Logitech driver. To my knowledge I've updated all of the above drivers and then today while on battery power I got another...

A few months ago the sleep mode on my computer became dysfunctional. Before, I used to put it into sleep mode (it is a desktop) and then move the mouse, and it would power up to exactly how I left it. Now if I put it in sleep mode, it appears to power up but nothing is shown on the screen. All...

I just recently bought an HP Pavilion p6730f BV533AA#ABA Desktop PC - Intel Core i3-550 3.2GHz, 6GB DDR3, 1.5TB HDD, DVDRW, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Right out of the box it started acting a little touchy. I bought to get a project done for a client, so immediately I installed Adobe...

Hellooo!!! Those are the problems that I get on my Win 7... First, when I turn on my laptop (HP Pavilion dv6000), after the part that is you can choose F10/F12/etc it stucks there for 1min and then a page comes and says: Operating System not found. but I should restart it many times till...

Soo for ages i've been putting up with A LOT of BSOD and even more application errors my friend said you guys helped him out with his computer when it had similar problems (can't be sure of username). What I was told before I came here was to change my DRAM frequency as it was incorrect so I...

Hey Just wondering if anyone would be able to help me I've been having some random shut downs with the following build which is only about a month and a half old the gtx 570 is only a few days old and since then the problems have gotten worse. Code: Intel Core i7 930 at stock with stock...

My WMP12 used to work. but nowadays, what it does whenever i try to open it is show its window for like 20 milliseconds, then close. My Encarta 2009 doesn't work well, it says it needs the WMP to play, so does my desktop gadgets. I think something happened. i tried using sfc/scannow but even it...

I just put together a new PC and it's very slow to resume from sleep. I set the BIOS to use S3 sleep. I put the computer into sleep manually and all of the fans/lights go off in a 5 seconds or so. When I resume from sleep it takes about 20 seconds before Windows comes back on. By...

Hello. this problem started a few day's ago all of a sudden. (note that it's more than 3 months after the last time i formatted, and the problem only occurred lately) So, the problem is, that no matter where i move my mouse, it cause a massive CPU spike. moving the mouse around on the desktop...

Most games I try to play give me the message "Game"Stopped Working. For example when playing Mass Effect 2 I will get an error after anywhere between 1-30 minutes stating: Mass Effect 2 HAS STOPPED WORKING. Then of course it says windows will check to see if there is a solution to the problem. I...

Like countless others I've have the dreaded "nvlddmkm.sys has stopped responding and has recovered" error. Whilst I dont consider myself a hardcore gamer I got this computer/graphics card so I could game with high quality details. So far I've use it to play solitaire and use the internet - the...

Hello, My windows updater is seems to be not working because whenever it tries to install updates on my computer is just goes to installing update 1 of 4 for about 8 hours and then i just turn it off. When i open windows updater it says i have 20 updates and 4 optional updates. I have recently...

Hello every one, Recently im having this ANNOYING issue, While im playing a game my computer randomly RESTART! No error Log, Nothing! I have no idea why this happening. I dont know what kind of System spec you will wanna from me to supply, so ill keep this open, and if anybody have any idea...

Windows 7 experiences 100% disk busy and system compleltely unresponsive - won't even move the mouse pointer. Occurs anything from a few minutes to an hour after connecting to a VPN to which many other Windows 7 users connect with no problem. The problem sometimes clears itself in 5-30 minutes...

Hi Everyone, I'd like to thank you in advance for helping me. Here is my hardware setup: MB: Asus P6T Deluxe V2 CPU: Intel core i7 920 (not overclocking) Mem: 6X1GB Corsair 1600 (not sure of exact model) Vid: ATI Raedon HD 5870 HDD:2X1TB Western Digital (Please let me know if you require more...