slowdown

  1. 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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...