slow performance

Hi, I have dell vostro 1400... in idle mode its showing cpu utilisation around 50 perc and sometime it touches even 100perc.. why it is happening and what can be done to make it perform more better. please help!!1! i have also attached my laptop dxdiag file for better understandings....

I really don't know what to say, I don't know what's happening to my computer lately. My computers been acting really slow for the past maybe 4 days. It's hard to open any of my files without waiting too long, and my internet browsers are incredibly slow. It's not normal. I thought it would be...

Please look at this image first: Link Removed I am running Windows 7 64bit. I have 15 updates that continue to fail. YES, I KNOW THE IMAGE SHOWS "1" - that's because I wanted to see if could actually perform one SMALL update. They're just a bunch of Security Updates for MS Office programs...

My name is zedekiah, I wanted some help for outlook 2007 which is installed on my computer on operating syste windows 7. I was using outlook 2003 which never gave any problem. I have now installed outlook 2007 which is give me hell lot of problems. Since last week it stating working slow but now...

Just got a new Acer aspire laptop for christmas. Everything works fine except that every time I turn it on or wake it up, there's about a 10 minute period of non-stop disk activity that causes every other application to come to a grinding hault. I downloaded process monitor and checked it out...

Hey there, I was just given a Epson Stylus Pro 7000 wide format printer and was wondering how would I set this up as a network printer. Epson stopped updating it's drivers and does not offer a driver for W7 and I've tried in vain to load VPN XP mode without success. I am using an older laptop to...

Hi, I've seen a couple of similar questions have been asked but as yet I don't have an answer. I have got EXTREMELY slow/non existent file transfer speeds between my USB external hard drive/pen drives and my HDD. I have no problem at all copying, moving files from/to my Android phone. That...

Help! My Windows 7 computer will not start up. I have an HP HDX 18T laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate. It was working fine until this morning when the log in screen froze after the computer woke up from standby. I held the power button down until the computer restarted. The startup process was...

i have bought a aspire 5252 one week ago and since ive use jdwldr, explorer, firefox, opera, chrome, skype, gimp and dreamweaver 8 the problem is upon yesterday the w7 runs terribly slow in normal mode but it does it ok in secure & secure net. I have passed the antivirus and the spybot and i...

I'm just installed windows 7 on my 2009 imac through bootcamp. However there are some problems. Ive noticed when i try to play something on windows media player it will tell me that my computer is running low on memory and to close some windows. Also games run poorly if at all. I suspect its a...

I need some help with my PC. Over the past 3 to 6 months it has gotten weird. I have a HP I purchased at a store just over a year ago. I am running Windows 7 64bit. Specs: OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 System Manufacturer...

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...

Fixes an issue in which a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 has an unexpectedly slow startup time. This issue occurs specifically when the computer is connected to a high resolution monitor. More...

hi every one, guys i have problem, my computer is so slow i mean it is not even run the application as should be. i have a very good computer with awesome specifications like; CPU; Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M520 @ 2.40GHz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) RAM; 8GB GRAPHIC CARD; ATI...

Discusses that new tabs open slowly in Internet Explorer 8 with the Skype 4.1 add-on installed. Provides several methods to resolve the problem. Link Removed

Hi guys i have a vostro 1700 dell laptop And the problem is its very slow :S opening stuff and dragging windows for example if i drag a window it moves but then the box refreshes which is annoying and its just generally slow Now its a 1 GB Ram but i have even tryed windows 7 - then vista and...

Every time I play bejewels in facebook it freezes. When I try do some searches in google it says netdog has blocked that word. I had installed netdog but uninstalled it the same day since it don't block every porn website. Now I have K9 but my husband still get the block pages from netdog...

Link Removed My concern is that while it really does look like a really nice user interface with rich features and functionality, is it actually faster. When moving files about from one place to another in explorer, it was never much of a concern what it looked like while it was happening. My...

Hello, and sorry to have a first post asking for help. I did a forced shutdown when my PC seemed to be incredibly slow then hanging while logging off. On restarting, I got 'disk read error' repeatedly, after the BIOS boot screen but before any of Windows. I used my Windows install CD to run...

Prepare for a massive Wall of Text: Over the last few weeks, this computer has become more and more problematic. Just to get it out of the way, I can, with 99.9% certainty, rule out viruses or malware, as I'm extremely careful and use Malwarebytes, AVG, and Firefox with Noscript. My computer...