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One indicator of Windows 7 slow performance on my machine is the way it handles the files in the "Downloads" folder. When i open Downloads folder, the file shows no files, even shows no file count. Then after refreshing it, a green bar starts to form in the location directory. The bar grows...

I have WINDOWS 7 32 bit, with MS OFFICE STANDARD 2003. WORD docs. take at least 2 mins. to open - and to save. This applies to docs. saved on MY DOCS and new docs received as e-mail attachments. The strange thing is that this was not the case when first getting the new PC with WIndows 7 -- it...

I've been using an old MSI Wind PC as a home server and yesterday, something odd happened. Suddenly, pretty much out of nowhere, my ethernet connection became really slow to the point where even streaming a file via a SMB share or logging in via RDP was arduous and close to impossible. I've...

I'm having a problem with my computer I am running two operating systems on my computer. Windows 7 on a sata hard drive, and windows XP on an ide drive. my problem is that my hard drive light flashes constantly about once per secondm, and the computer is running slow, ( solitare is slugish and...

i have searched the forum and havent found an answer to my question so this is my reason for posting HP Desktop Model # P6210Y Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS 6g ram(5.75 usable) AMD Athalon II x4 620 Processor 2.60 GHz So lately my computer just at random times decides...

I recently installed the newest edition of VirtualPC on my Win7 ultimate machine. Having used VPC 2007 in the past, I was expecting a similar experience. Only to be disappointed when I installed a VM of Win7 Pro, and it was extremely slow. The processor speed reported was 5 Mhz. I find this...

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...