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Windows 7 Chkdsk hangs at start
Well after just a day of using windows 7 I've got some classic windows slowdown symptoms. I'm thinking it's probably AVG 8.5 free thats doing it, but I run a chkdsk /f just to make sure. System starts booting, goes to chkdsk, does the countdown: "To skip disk checking, press any key within x...- zaptoman
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- avg boot chkdsk disk check laptop msi slowdown windows 7 windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Rethink on Istallation
Like many of you, I findthat clean installations tend to work better. But having tried an upgrade installation, then a clean on, I find that my system was much more stable with the upgrade. On the clean install I have problems installing new programs, shuting down cleanly, random internet...- gjbnh
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- advice beta clean install installation internet programs shutdown slowdown system stability tech tips troubleshooting upgrade user experience windows
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Games Menu Slowdown?
Is itjust me, I click on the start up window logo (would be the start menu), all programs, then games, then wait. All the games are listed without an icon for a bit (first time after boot). But even on recursive attempts, it's much faster, but still slow. That is the only menu that I've seen...- SirGCal
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- 32-bit 64-bit boot games icons issues performance slowdown
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- Forum: Windows Games
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Windows 7 Windows 7 seems to have completely turned against me
when i tried to uninstall AVG Free in favor of Zonealarm (i got the vista version working through compatibility), i got bluescreened twice. this then led to the following issues. 1) whenever i start up my computer, the gadgets take forever to load and take up 100% of my processor. i have to...- Mirrorboy
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- avg blue screen compatibility cpu usage defrag disk check gadgets performance issues shutdown issues slowdown system restore troubleshooting windows 7 zonealarm
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows Media Player 12
Hi, Wmp 12 has been scanning for media library for about 4 hours now and seems to be slowing everything else down. I have a large library (about 250gb but should it take this long?- trevorwhatever
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- library size media library performance scan slowdown windows media player wmp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows Vista Vista freeze up after boot
Hi,I turn on my pc eventually get to desktop screen(has slowed considerably since start of problem last week).After a couple of minutes vista freezes,i can still use mouse pointer but my cpu dualcore usage meter freeze's and my hardrive seems to stop running aswell.I left computer on for a...- Spudley
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- boot issues computer help cpu usage desktop dual core freezes hard drive hardware maintenance memory motherboard performance recommendations slowdown system issues tech support troubleshooting user experience windows vista
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support