resource management

A new version of Parallels Server for Mac adds automation and support for newer operating systems. Parallels Server for Mac 4.0 provides host and guest support for Mac OS X 10.6 Server, plus guest support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Linux and older versions of Windows are still...

If you find Vista's performance lagging, the good news is that you can make it run faster. Here are some of the steps you can take. More...

I've been having this problem off and on since I installed W7 that my CPU is spiking during low network use (e.g. 2-3mbit/sec). My setup is W7 (32), Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4 ghz, Asus P5E-VMDO, 8gb memory. Network Adapter is an embedded Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit. No other network adapters are...

I have a: Hp dv6815nr with: 3gb ddr2 memory AMD Turion X2 TL-60 running @ 2.00 Ghz Nvidia Geforce 7150m 160GB 5400rpm Windows 7 32-bit So here's the problem. My computer, has sudden spazzes, and starts using 50% of the processor randomly. I don't know how, and it seems like it does when...

Where is Macromed folder on win7 Hi folks, AMD Phenom II x4 955 Onboard RAM 8G I have Win7 and Windows Server 2008 running here, both 64bit, as VM (guest) of KVM (virtualizer) and co-existing with other 4 Linux servers (64bit version). All of them are working without problem. The only...

By Terry Blount This is a round up of processes, services and features that I have turned off. I have tested these for months under Windows 7. My system is faster and stable and has far less overhead than the day I installed Windows 7. My boot time as recorded by BootRacer is down to 17...

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I don't know about all of y'all, but I"m getting a lot of warnings and errors in the Event Log.... Some of which I'm not finding fixes for. FIRST, is there SOME WAY to reduce the massive number of informational messages being constantly written to the log? Not to SEE fewer, but to actually...

Computer stats Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit Gigabyte Socket 775 Mobo Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 CPU Nvidia 8800GT 4 GB DDR2 Ram MSI TV Anywhere PCI TV Tuner Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS I have recently beginning with last Thursday been experiencing after a good 4-7 hours of the computer being on a massive spike...

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone can recommend an alternative file management program to windows explorer that works with Windows 7. Ones I've tried include.. 1: xplorer2 - Shuts down whenever I try renaming files. Will usually rename the first couple and then shut down. 2...

Hay Question: I have Win 7 (ultimate x64) on my laptop (HP Pavilion). When I start the Win. something is “burdeningâ€Â￾ the system and because of that the computer is loud (cooler). Whole thing comes down in appx.4 min. and than computer runes smoothly – quietly. What could be...

Im getting 100% CPU usage even when my comp's idling. Anyone know what the problem might be,or how i can rectify it? It's not happening all the time,but very frequently. Im using a Pentium D Dual core 2 x 2.8GHz on an x64 Windows 7 Ultimate.

I don't have any programs opened just the task manager. When I'm not moving the mouse my CPU usage stay from 0-2% but as soon as I move the mouse pointer, even though just a bit, it shoots up to 30%!!!! Why is that happening? I'm really frustrated about it. Thanks.

Since using the Win7 Beta (and now the RC), I've noticed that "wmplayer.exe" will occasionally run in the background without being explicitly started by the user. This wasn't much of a problem, but I thought it was odd. Since installing the RC, however, WMP often (>50% of the time that I am on...

Greetings, I have an interesting problem, searched the internet for solution, although haven't found any viable source. I am using windows 7 RC1 downloaded from MS, build 7100. So, my CPU (AMD Athlon X2 5200+) is running at 60-70% withouth doing anyinthg. According to the task manager, the...

I upgraded to the windows RC build 7100 recently. I have been using it successfully. I have installed all my applications and programs successfuly. I have installed all of my hardware peripherals with no problem what so ever. The problem I am having is with media players. When I installed...

Ok, with my vista, my performance index is a 4.9. when I had the beta, my performance index went to a 5.4. I thought that was really awesome, and I had assumed it was because 7 was less resource heavy, or maybe it used resources in a different way. But when I installed the RC1, my performance...

Lavasoft has released a new Anniversary Edition (AE) of Ad-Aware anti-spyware, including a free version. Some of it's features could be quite invasive though as well as a resource eater.. It may be worth closing some of the utilities/scanners and TweakGuides.com has a list of whats best to...

EDIT: Before any of the below stuff happens, it wont let me open my computer and then open any of the drives there. I double click on em and it starts loading and you can see the progress bar where it says Computer at the top of the window but then it won't open any of em. I can still go to...

Hello all, I installed Windows 7 on a new partition yesterday and everything seemed to go fine until I tried installing the Nvidia drivers for it. After searching around, I noticed the yellow exclamation mark beside the PCI standard PCI to PCI bridge in the Device Manager. Checked it out and got...