slow performance

For those of you out there that are experiencing some slow downs in Outlook 2007 from MS recent updates here are two possible solutions. First: Run Outlook 2007 as administrator, open outlook 2007, click tools, click trust center, click add-ins in left pane, click go at bottom of page. A pop...

I dont remember doing anything wrong on my computer then browsing youtube, the web, messenger, watching videos and doing my homework on word. My acer has 500 GB HDD and 4 GB memory. All of the sudden while I was working, my computer starts being slow and not responding to my actions quickly...

As the title says, whenever i install, or extract something on my computer, everything seems to lag horrendously and often freeze. This started happening when i re-installed windows 7 onto my computer because i had way to many programs installed that i couldn't uninstall and almost no hard drive...

Hi I bought my Windows 7 laptop two days ago and it is already pretty slow and freezes. I have only got the internet (Firefox) and some files from my old laptop which are safe. On 'My Computer' under the hard disk drives it says my normal Packard Bell space and then it has ' Microsoft Office...

Hi I recently did a full install of Windows 7. Now my printer doesn't work. I run the printer through a netgear router. Everything else works fine through the Netgear router. I bought a new printer - a Samsung ML-2851ND - I have spent hours on the phone with Samsung, installed Windows 7...

I have a Gateway laptop, running Windows 7 Professional, and it is a 64-bit system type. The laptop uses Pentium Duel Core CPU. The processors are T4200, and run at 2.00 GHz each. The RAM is 3.00, and the Hard Drive has 175 Gb free space. I also run Microsoft Security Essentials. The problem is...

Tonight we are holding a lan party, but everything is going wrong with our Server, Switches, routers and computers. it's all so slow and everyones antivirus and malware programs are popping up saying theres threats. What is going on? :mad:

Hello forum, sorry to have my first post be a question, but I'm at my wits end. Please forgive me, and offer ANY advice you might have. I have Win 7 - 64bit currently, and have been using it for about a year now. I have always had 4gb of RAM installed, and have done various "other" upgrades...

Hi, So my computer's been running kinda slow lately, and it even shut down (I assume due to overheating) while playing Starcraft 2 yesterday. So I'm thinking I either have a virus, spyware, or just too many processes. I attached a picture of my current processes, so can someone tell me what...

Hi guys, I have had XP Pro for a number of years now, and I know full well that after a while it had always deteriorated and I would have to format. This happened for around the third time where it became nearly unbareably slow. I figured since it keeps happening, and to generally get with the...

Hello! I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. I've been seeing very slow file operations since making this PC my main computer earlier this week. My system specs are listed below my signature. In addition to the specific example below, the problem appeares copying image files from a CF Card...

Hi! So the issue I'm having is that I recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate (from XP Ultimate) and the computer was working really slowly. First I opened task manager and found only one CPU was being monitored, there was only one window for one CPU, not two windows with only one firing...

Yesterday my PC was running very slowly so I rebooted, only my PC has never fully rebooted since then. Every time that I attempt to use Win 7 it crashes after I reach the desktop. I can run in Safe mode with command prompt, and I have backed up all of my files this way on an external hdd. I...

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...

Hey Guys, I'm an IT Tech. for a school and we have currently tested and pushed out a new Windows 7 image to a couple of hundred HP Laptops. We are noticing increased login times over our wireless network (802.11N) which is very inconsistent with our initial testing results. Students are taking...

My laptop came with windows 7, I never had to install it. I have had the same problem with this twice, and I want to stop this from happening again. You see, both times, the computer would run unnaturally slow, then when I am in the middle of something (First time was browsing the internet...

Been using windows 7 for months, no prob. Been using trial version of office 2007 for weeks, no prob. Everything slowed to a crawl yesterday, and I've isolated it as being only when word 2007 is open. It slows everything down, even when there is no document. When there is a large document, it...

PLEASE READ - (I say this because on other forums people are replying to the title with hack that ive tried and does not work) a few weeks ago I noticed that Icons were refreshing quite often and always after installing something and when they did the were very slow so anyway I searched...

Laptop specs: Manufacturer: TOSHIBA Processor: Celeron(R) Dual-Core CPU T3100@ 1.90GHZ Installed memory (RAM) 2.00 GB (1.87 GB usable) System type: 64-bit Operating Sytem Display: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Not sure if you need this information - but I listed my laptop specs just...

I am one of the few who Hates W7! Probably it is great for technie people but for little old lady's sitting at home using computer for fun, it is horrible. My home page is My.MSN which one can customize with the news modules, local weather, etc. I have to reset everything at least twice a day...