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Hwy there everyone. Happy windows 7 user here. Had it since it came out, however recently I have been experiencing my laptop really slowly whenever I perform a search in the start bar field. So I hit start, search for a program and document. Sometimes it finds it, sometimes not, but nearly...

Hey, I've always used my start bar's search box to search files and applications. But for no apparent reason it just became extremely slow. I'm not an expert in computers so I don't know how to fix this and I'd appreciate it if you could help me out. Thanks in advance, David.

For several days I have been trying to repair issues w/ my Toshiba laptop, that just started happening suddenly. With lots of reading, I've been able to bring the computer back from only booting into safe mode. Now with normal boot it takes up to 20 min. to fully boot. Then once everything...

my mouse locks up for a few seconds after typing like if i press any key on my keyboard my mouse locks up for about 3-5 seconds and ive been through settings and that but i cant find the solution to my problem can some one help me ill put a few screen shots in. in addition to the screenshot my...

hi, i just bought a new laptop that has windows 7 installed. it is sooooooo slow. its driving me crazy. from googling a problem could be too my processes. it has 100-120 running with a high cpu usage. mostly 90% or so. i have another laptop running windows vista with 117 processes but the...

Had the common problem of Windows 7 Professional installing very slowly. Removed the 2 - 6 USB port cards – only cards installed, disabled the USB port and floppy drive in the BIOs and removed all but one stick of memory. The installation went fine. Rebooted several times, could go on-line...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate with CPU 2.80GHz, RAM 1 GB Hard Disk 160 GB Few months earlier I used to run Windows Media Centre smoothly without any disturbance an d Media player. however these days, these programs are running awfully slow. I am not so expert at computing but I haven't upgraded or...

Hi, I have been having some issues with my wireless internet connection for the past month with only one account, my primary administrators account. Firefox repeatedly tells me "The connection has timed out". The signal strength on the wireless connection reads "Excellent" yet the connection is...

I'm just about ready to throw this laptop at the wall with the amount of problems I've had with it and I'm also starting to feel like a bit of a burden to this forum but what ever my problem may be this place seems to provide the best answers which is why I come here! heres my old thread that...

So I just got this new Toshiba laptop and have been trying to stream videos at the apartment that I'm staying at over the shared wireless internet and its not going to well. I keep getting lag spikes like crazy every 15 - 20 seconds and the wireless internet connection should be enough to...

I installed VPN connection to work 5 weeks ago on my new Toshiba dual core i5 laptop and was working fine. Last Tuesday, my Win 7 system crashed and showed blue screen, when I made changes to my CA anti-virus software - to increase security setting. It kept on crashing when i try to connect to...

Hi, I have been working on an Emachines E627 w/Win7 and have noticed my wireless speeds around around 10x slower than on dell laptop running XP. I have verified the slower speed using speedtest.net, also I have updated the driver for Atheros AR5B95 Wireless Network Adapter and the Microsoft...

Hi I have recently installed the latest upgrade which includes Windows Essentials 2011. After rebooting I am finding that Live Mail and MSN messenger are running very slow and are completely unusable. Is there a fix or do I have to do a restore. Many thanks BillsLills

My Win7 64bit machines take up to 30-60 sec to recognize other devices on a wired gigabit network. Then, additional time to open a device’s HDD. But, once that is done, I can open sub-folders and xfer files around lightning fast. (Sometimes, I can’t find other devices at all w/o multiple...

The use of key, custom-built IE6 applications is likely to slow some the migration to Windows 7 at some enterprises due to the time and money needed to upgrade the apps. Link Removed

I decided to use OpenDNS on my new laptop, which is Win7. Open DNS ran fine on the desktop XP. All was fine, but then I closed the browser after changing over to the Open DNS configuration. Then I could not browse anymore. So I realized after a while that the anti-virus, and the firewall...

I just built a new gaming system with Windows 7 and all seems to be working well so far for the most part. I'm still installing apps, games, etc. I have noticed that during installation of games utilizing my bluray drive multitasking comes to a stand still. For example, the 1st disc of a game...

Here's my issue : I have a new computer with Windows 7. My Internet connection is usually fast, but when I play music or videos, it becomes suddenly incredibly slow. It can take several minutes to load a basic web page like Google. If I pause the music/video and refresh the page, it loads in...

This website seems to be slow again at entering point, sorry if its in wrong topic

I have a cousin who just updated to windows 7 from vista ! The problem is,,,,,when he updated to windows 7, the mouse pad works very slowly and painfully ! The Laptop is Toshiba Satelite A355s ! Is there a driver that can enhance the experience a bit ?