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Full Format is garbage When Full formatting a 16GB thumbdrive using FAT32 with default allocation size, the format takes 33 minutes and 24 seconds (Same as Windows 7) Windows XP-SP2 or SP3 takes 22 seconds to Full Format the same drive the exact same way What did YOU find broken or slower...

I filled out my system specs and am including the requested files as instructed (includes dump files). Since last week, I have gotten a few BSODs. All but one (0x1000008e KERNEL_MODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED) were 0x000000c2 BAD_POOL_CALLER. Both types were apparently caused by Windows system files...

My Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, on occasion will slow to a crawl. Apps take minutes to come up and then can't be stopped as they aren't responding. In this state the machine won't close down properly either. This happens intermittently - it can run for days without a problem. According to Malwarebytes...

Hi Guys, seeking your expertise. Sincere Thanks for your time. Will try to keep this short and detailed. Here goes; 1) been using Firefox6 with Wins7 (64bit) SP1 without any problem for 10 months. 2) No recent hard/soft ware added. (Then things/performance began slowing down about...

I was regularly using Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit with no problems what so ever from the OS until 2 days back. Since then, suddenly my laptop is taking a lot of time to boot, shutdown or hibernate- surprisingly no noticeable slow down while turning on from hibernation. Entering and exiting...

Good Morning, I'm filing this under 'Crash' because I don't know where else to put it. Here's the problem I began experiencing yesterday, and have not yet been able to find a solution for. I powered up my PC yesterday morning after it had been powered off for 4 days or so. Windows booted up...

Terrible File Sharing Performance on Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 I am experiencing horrible network share performance with Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1. I have two PCs connected directly with a gigabit ethernet cable and static IP addresses. PC#1 hosts a CIFS/SMB shared folder. Yesterday, I was backing up...

So I've finally snapped. For over a year now I've been enduring this god forsaken problem, dismissing and ignoring it as much as I could whenever it reared its ugly head. I can take it NO MORE. My patience has run out! Now, as much as I like to think I'm good with computers, there's quite a...

Today I'm joined with Microsoft tech troubleshooter extraordinaire Gov Maharajov to help walk you through solutions to your tech support problems. In an effort to help solve future problems we're going to look at these issues beyond just fixing them and drill down into how Gov would actually...

Sooner or later, every PC starts to slow down. There are many potential causes for this but ranking high are applications that launch at the same time as Windows. Link Removed

lately when ever i use the HDMI port on ANything.. tv w/ hdmi or my friends LG monitor, my pc slowly Lockups. or outright freezes up. any idea Why its doing this? i have 7 Ultimate x86 and an Nvidia Geforce 9500 GS

System is a desktop with Asus p6T motherboard, i7 920 overclocked to 4GHz, 6GB of DDR3 memory running at a bit over 1520 MHz, 250GB Seagate SATA II drive for O/S, 4-1TB Seagate SATA II drives, DVD burner, a couple external drives and so on........ O/S is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Boot time...

Add-ons responsible for 70 percent of IE8 crashes By Link Removed due to 404 Error | In a recently published whitepaper titled "Enhancing the performance of Windows Internet Explorer 8," Microsoft detailed browser add-ons, toolbars, malware, restricted sites, plus more advanced topics such...

I'm having troubles with my system and can't figure out the cause. After a several trials with this system I started up completely from scratch. I'm having an Asus Motherboard M2A VM HDMI, running well and installed the latest BIOS to be sure that this couldn't give me any troubles. 4 Gb...

Since I've bought this computer, WMP keeps opening when I start it up. It's annoying because it slows down the start-up process and I don't even use WMP outside of watching the occasional video. I looked all through the settings and preferences and can't find an option to turn this off, so how...

Ever since the switch from Vista 64x, games have actually been running worse. Mostly it's just minor slowdown, but FIFA 10 is particularly bad, it's very choppy. I've already disabled a lot of unnecessary services and programs, defrag regularly and have the latest drivers. Here's my system...

hi i was wondering if anyone can help. i recently upgraded to windows 7 and then i discovered there are problem. the most fustrating one is that when i start windows live messenger and internet explorer or mozilla, my laptop slows down. Even though I can move my cursor around whenever i click on...

Hello everyone! This is my first time here in the forums, so help me along the way if I've done something wrong. I upgraded to Windows 7 home premium from Vista home premium about a week ago, and unlike the average consensus, it has been nothing for trouble for me. I have had performance issues...

first to say hi to all the forum members this is mine strange problem with win 7: i did a fresh install to win 7 64 bit retail from xp and i have a problem with aero random slowdowns, for example if aero slow down after a restart (the refresh is slow and choppy, windows explorer is slow after...

i played an xvid avi (700 m) movie in windows media player of windows 7 in my toshiba satellite l40-18x laptop . and i found that every 5 minutes (about 5 or 4 minutes) the movie slow down and the picture freeze for about 20 seconds and then it continue normal playing and then after another 5 or...