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Windows 7 CPU at 98% from NT Kernel & System (smss.exe) and SearchFilterHost.exe
I did a clean install of windows 7 yesterday, and before I had even started installing programs I noticed my system was sluggish. After loading up on my programs and getting my documents in place, it has been basically unusable without tweaking in ways I'd rather not stick to. I've run a...- draperc
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- adaware scan clean install cpu usage driver issues manual settings memory usage nt kernel performance tweaks process search filters services sluggish smss.exe spybot symantec system indexing system performance task manager windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Transfer Speeds & System Haults to Sluggish.
I am wondering if it is my hdd or something else, if I transfer a big file "3gig" from partition 2 to partition 1, at the same time, open up IE or anything, My system becomes very sluggish, transfer speeds shows copying the 3 gig file from 30 mb/s & drops to 20 mb/s when I try to open something...- epk1950
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- file size file transfer hdd internet explorer partition performance issues sluggish system performance transfer speed windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows Photo Viewer vs Calibrated Display Profile
I've been using Windows 7 x64 for quite a few months now, and there was a bug on the beta version that I thought was gone in the RC, but I see it's still here. Initially I was wondering why the Windows Photo Viewer was so darn sluggish compared to it's counterpart in Vista. From opening images...- no123one
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- calibrated profile color profile drivers graphics icc profile nvidia performance photo viewer sluggish windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Windows 7 Can I downgrade from 64-Bit to 32-Bit?
Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong So...- Wyatt_Earp_Fan
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- 32-bit 64-bit downgrade drivers evga firefox gigabyte graphics card hdd light ide cable installation intel internet explorer memory performance sata sluggish system specs web browsing
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Hard Drive light stays on as if still running something
Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong...- Wyatt_Earp_Fan
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- browser corsair cpu drivers evga gigabyte graphics card graphics driver hard drive hardware ide cable installation memory performance sata sluggish system specs troubleshooting update windows 7
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 dxgmms1.sys thread CPU Usage 100%
I've been trying to troubleshoot a very sluggish Windows 7 install for a couple days, and need help finding the cause. The culprit according Process Explorer is that the System Process runs at 100% CPU usage, and when I view the threads, it's actually dxgmms1.sys that's doing it. Does anyone...- h2oman
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- 64-bit cpu usage directx driver issues dxgmms1.sys gaming graphics driver high usage nvidia drivers performance performance tuning process explorer quadro ram sluggish system processes tech support troubleshooting windows 7 xeon
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Performance Issues with Windows 7 Media Center
Hi all, I've just upgraded my Vista Home Premium 32Bit (media center computer) to the 32Bit 7100 RC build of Windows 7 (doing upgrade not clean install). I have a couple of problems with the new Win 7 Media Center Firstly it is really sluggish! When I click on the menu items it takes a...- thestonefox
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- 32-bit bugs codec community encoding feedback h.264 media center performance playback issues remote sluggish streaming troubleshooting tv guide upgrade user experience video windows 7 windows vista
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Dell Precision M2400 Issues with CPU Score maybe?
Well I just received a new laptop yesterday and decided I would jump on and install Windows 7 RC onto it. I had been running it on my Lenovo S10 for a while and was really liking it. I was a little disappointed when seeing my Score within Windows 7 and thought something might be wrong, i know...- hansenc
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- cpu score dell precision drivers intel m2400 performance sluggish windows 7
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Windows 7 Windows 7 seems slugish even though I've got more than enough...
So, I decided to install and test out Windows 7 seeing how I've already bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate OEM. I know I'm shit out of luck with that money, but I wanted my new computer to be all legit and what not. Anyways, I am coming from a Linux Distro and the Windows 7 install went...- Bryce
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- audio beta cpu drivers firefox hard drive hardware installation linux opera optimization performance ram sluggish speakers system tray user experience windows 7 windows live messenger
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows 7 seems slugish even though I've got more than enough...
So, I decided to install and test out Windows 7 seeing how I've already bit the bullet and bought Vista Ultimate OEM. I know I'm shit out of luck with that money, but I wanted my new computer to be all legit and what not. Anyways, I am coming from a Linux Distro and the Windows 7 install went...- Bryce
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- audio beta drivers firefox gaming graphics hardware installation open source opera overclocking performance ram sluggish software system tray troubleshooting windows 7 windows live messenger
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Desktop slower than Laptop
Anyone know why my Desktop computer which has much better hardware would run Windows7 slower than my Laptop? Desktop is: 3ghz dual core Asus P5K motherboard 4GB RAM 250GB Western Digital 7200 RPM SATA 3.0 8800 GT Laptop is: Dell 1520 2ghz dual core 2GB RAM 150GB Western Digital 7200 RPM...- rns3011
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- 8800gt asus dell desktop drivers dual core hardware laptop m8600gt performance ram sata slow startup sluggish troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows Photo Viewer SLUGGISH
I'm running Windows 7 beta 7000, x64 Bit, (fresh install) and despite a few little bugs (like the gadgets not working when UAC is disabled), I find things are quite robust. However, one thing that is insanely slow compared to Vista or XP is the WINDOWS PHOTO VIEWER. Even opening tiny images...- no123one
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- beta drivers dual processor gadgets graphics hardware image loading installation memory nvidia performance photo viewer picasa post signature refresh rate sli sluggish uac windows 7 windows update
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support