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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...

This is on a six-core system, 8GB ram, win 8.1 64bit. Yesterday everything was fine. I went to shut down at the end of the day and selected 'update and shut down.' Then in the morning windows would not boot up. After some digging around it looks like the update moved my entire windows folder...

I have a Toshiba Windows Vista 32 bit and would like install 4GB's of RAM but the limiting factor seems to be the memory addressing capability of the processor. Is there any way to get around this? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, CAG43

Hello. First time posting so I tried to read the rules on what's expected and have collected the dump file and other info that I will attach. As stated in the title I keep getting an annoying BSOD that states "FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE" and I first tried to search online for this issue...

I'm new here on this forum so i'm sorry if i make a mistake here anyway about the problem of BSOD. i usually get a BSOD about DRIVER POWER STATE FAILURE or KERNEL SECURITY CHECK FAILURE. Both of BSOD are 99% never happen when i plugged or charging. But now there a new BSOD happen it...

hello i have 4 gb ram on my pc.. but on my computer with windows 8 says 3.00 usable.. why? how to fix this? see the screenshot please Link Removed

I can install all updates in Win-7 successfully except the SP1. Whenever I try it I finally get an error message (Error #80004005). I've tried the automatic fix but that doesn't do any thing. I have also tried to format my C Drive and load a Win-7 (Pro) with SP1 using a DVD from Microsoft. After...

On the next Xbox Microsoft should call it Xbox PC and include a 1.0TB ssd's in it. They should also give the customer a choice on the cpu, ram and video card inside it. It should run all gaming platforms on it and kill off the low-end game console. It should be marketed as a small living room...

Hi Forumers, LUGUY here. My computer has 4.00 of RAM, After I reformatted my Win7 Pro 64 bit to Win 7 32 bit I have only 2.75 GB Usable Memoty RAM in Computer- Properties, but in DRIVE C- Properties appear 432 GB of FREE space of 465 GB of Capacity , why this happen? or if this is normal? Thank...

Hello, Please I am fighting with this problem more than 1 year... I got random freezes (99% just in IDLE time, or when i am just browsing via browser) My HARDWARE: CPU: FX-6300@4.2GHz (Default voltage) + Gelid Tranq. v2, MB: ASUS M5A97 Evo R2.0 SoundCard: Creative Audigy RAM: 2x4GB Kingston...

Hi! I'm always wanting to learn. I feel like I'm fairly knowledgeable about Windows, but I know nothing about hardware. I would like to know a little more about the basics of hardware. I have read about over clockng and it is way over my head. I understand you push your CPU and Ram to perform...

ussnorway submitted a new resource: Crucial (2014) - handy tool to scan a laptop ram slots or hdd Read more about this resource...

download and run ... it will open a browser page to display your system specs... a handy way to see how many ram slots a laptop has and whats in them now.

Hello, I have a few times a random error and resulted in a blue screen with the error 0x000001d8. Could somebody help me to solve this problem. I'm using an lenovo u31-70, intel core i5, 4gb ram, ssd. Thanks, Rico

Assume I perform a certain program (in background) which acquires a lot of memory. As an example think of a chkdsk run for an external USB hard disk which uses 6 Gb out of 8 GB physical RAM over a period of hours. This extra ordinary memory consumption slows down the "normal" usage...

I uses a 32 bit windows.7 . I swap the original single 2gb 1066 mhz to a single 4gb 1600 mhz ram stick (both are ddr3) . but after it is installed , the computer restarted automactically after the "starting windows" pops up . but if i put back the original ram with the new once , it cqn actually...

Hello, I recently setup a new server with a website, so i can learn windows server 2008 I am using a desktop computer, it's a quad core 8 gig of ram, I've used xampp before on this computer and the website runs fast, I also had the website on my ovh dedicated server online and it runs fast...

Hi guys. Yet again I'm sitting here with a little issue and some thoughts what to do. A member from Bf3 told me to try use MSI Afterburner, since I had some wierd crashes. The thing is, I have no clue how to manage the temp of my GPU nor what its gonna do to my hardware. Could anyone of you...

Here are my computer specs: ASRock z170 PRO4S Motherboard Nvidia Gefore GTX 970 Graphics Card Intel i7-6700 processor 16GB DDR4 Ram (2x8GB) 240GB SanDisk SSD & 1TB HDD (forget brand) RetailPlus 700w PSU Windows 7 professional (version 6.1.7601 service pack 1 build 7601) Kaspersky Anti-virus...

That's what my grandson calls it. He's got 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive in an Asus PC. System info is attached here as a .pdf file. 95% of his activity is Minecraft, but even before that comes into play, the OS is slow to load and if he should enter an erroneous password at the start...