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I can hear my C hard drive thrashing away when my system is idle, and even when my system is running programs. Thought it might be Firefox that's using the hard drive a lot - checked it out, uses the hd a bit but no more than usual, but I can still hear the hard drive clicking away. So I close...

Hello, I have wrote an article: Link Removed - Invalid URL. Tools Requried: Process Explorer: Process Explorer Windows Debugging Tools: Link Removed due to 404 Error Hope this help, Captain

Checked the Services, I don't think I disabled anything related... Nothing is shown under all those tabs, not even CPU - Processes!

I have bought Packard Bell IXtreme X8211 (M3720). It has Quad CPU with 4Gig RAM. Very frequently it freezes for up to 30 seconds. I have notice in Resource Monitor that the Highest Active Time is 100% every time it freezes. The system has a WD EADS SCSI hard drive. It started this after...

The Windows 7 Start Menu search function seems to work quite well for most programs. I type "wo" and "Microsoft Word is highlighted on the top of the list. I type "ex" and Microsoft Excel is at the top of the list, followed by Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer. But try and run regedit.exe...

Win 7 Ent x64 Intel i7 , 6GB ram , System on SSD... Symptoms: 1. Some process cannot be killed, not even with force restart (both Windows Security restart or the shutdown command). Which is really bad, I cannot restart the PC remotely or heck, not even a safe restart, has to press RESET or...

Hello. I have a Packard Bell iextreme M5722, with 6GB of RAM and with an NVIDIA GeForce GT 220. I do not have much installed on my machine and run AVG antivirus. I am getting periodic (like a couple of times an hour) performance issues, where by if I am connected to the internet, it just...

My sister's laptop has been having some serious problems. After about only 2 minutes of running, the system gradually locks up one program at a time until the only things that respond/change are the mouse and the desktop gadgets. The only way to avoid locking up is to boot into Safe Mode...

Hi I have win 7 ultimate running on a 4core intel Q9450 and a nvidia 8800gt Just lately if i do anything in explorer like add a new folder .. move a file to another folder etc it almosts stops! it can take literally a minute or more and the sometimes i have to refresh to see the changes. I...

I just got a new i7 with windows 7 64 bit on it yesterday. Everything was slow, and I figured out why, but don't really understand why, or what I can do to keep it from happening in the future. Yesterday I attached it to an external NTFS drive that had a bunch of bad sectors, copied over...

Hi all, I have been doing allot of research on Win7's Task Manager, in particular the Performance Tab because I am getting issues I am not understanding. What I understand: Total: amount of RAM installed on your computer Cached: amount of physical memory used recently for system...

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...

I don't really know where to put this as it is strictly related to my games. I'm having a problem with Windows 7 that none of my friends are having. When I play WoW my system will go a couple minutes really slowly. WoW will drop to 4 fps and The rest of my programs will go really slowly. Then a...

I don't really know where to put this as it is strictly related to my games. I'm having a problem with Windows 7 that none of my friends are having. When I play WoW my system will go a couple minutes really slowly. WoW will drop to 4 fps and The rest of my programs will go really slowly. Then a...

Hi, New here so i'm hoping I can get some help! I have recently installed Windows 7 on a Sony VAIO VGN-NR20E with vista drivers because Sony doesn't support W7 on it. Every thing was going fine until I realized that every so often my hard drive activity light goes solid and the computer...

Here is another poor soul sucked into windows 7, only to find that most of the time 60% of my AMD Phenom II X4 940 is tied up by what the resouce monitor claims is system interrupts. I have not added or changed anything since installing the windows 7 X64 upgrade to my Vista 64 system. I did have...

I have Window 7 64 bit running on a Gigabyte GeForce 8200 motherboard with a AMD 4850e CPU. From time to time the CPU usage jumps to 100% and stays there no matter how many processes and services I kill. Checking the Resource Monitor in Task Manager shows that System Interrupts is using the...

Hi Peoples I was wondering if someone here may have some advise on a particular problem that I am having. My readyboost cache is continually re-created everytime I reboot my laptop. Its on a 4GB SD Card and I dedicate the entire SD card to the readyboost cache. I noticed that there was...

Hello all, Receiving very little help on this on other forums I frequent, I thought I'd try here. I hope all of this information does not overwhelm. Here it goes: Hello, The past couple days I've noticed SVCHOST.EXE start going +50 CPU. For the most part it is sustained. I have linked a...

I am running the 64 Bit RC of Windows 7, and am having an issue... My Athlon 64 X2 is seen by the system as a dual core CPU, but the system only seems to use 1 core... CPUz shows it also as a dual core, and at the bottom for Processor 1 it shows 1 core and 1 processor... Task Manager and...