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    Windows 8 Windows 8 Upgrade Product Key

    A couple of years ago I upgraded from XP to Windows 8 when Microsoft where charging £30 for the upgrade, which seemed to be a no brainer. Two years down the line my Dell Precision desktop feels sluggish compared to how it was performing with a fresh install (upgrade) to Windows 8 (I have since...
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    Windows 7 BSOD - IRQL gt zero at system service

    July 2011 laptop Computer Manufacturer/Model NumberSager NP8130 / Clevo P151HM1 OS Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit CPU 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM, 2.0-2.8GHz, (32nm, 6M MotherboardCouldn't figure out Memory8,192MB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (16MBs now) Graphics Card(s)nVidia...
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    Windows 7 Can't find all CPU Cores working

    I bought a used Dell E6500 with an Intel dual core processor (supposedly) but Win 7 Task Manager only finds one core. I've got other computers running dual core and quad core processors, and Performance > CPU history > One Graph per CPU will read as many processors as the processor title says it...
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    Windows 7 Programs hang up during use, sometimes crash without warning

    I’m a member of the IT department in a relatively small company. Yesterday morning, one of my users reported a strange error to me. I had never encountered this before. The problem he described is detailed further below. We have several of this model laptop; this is the first one to give us...
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    Windows 7 Need Help with Windows 7 Home Premium Boot

    I have a Dell Studio 15 with Core i7 740 processor, 4 GB RAM and 500g HDD. Windows 7 Home Premium Factory Installed I have installed Linux Mint 10 last month and everything was so fine. I have deleted the Linux Partition by mistake and my default boot was using GRUB. So i got a GRUB...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 pro not detecting dual core but bios is, tried everything

    Have a e6600 dual core, evga 680i board, 4 gb ddr26400, gtx260, win 7 pro upgraded from vista. I have looked all over and tried almost everything. BIOS detects dual core as it allows me to enable or disable the second one, and intel proc id tool detects 2 cores. However, windows 7, and any...
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    Windows 7 couple of probs

    Hello all, so happy to be a member of this great forum. Two problems that i am having at the moment. 1. Upon booting, boot is good, somewhat fast though I receive a splash screen telling me "Install failed"; i check okay and voila, no problem...just irritating. 2. shut down is really slow. I am...
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