Ah, the dreaded morning ritual: powering up your Windows computer only to wait what feels like an eternity to get started. Whether you're rushing to send out an email, crunching data for deadlines, or simply getting ready to play your favorite game, a slow startup can be annoyingly disruptive...
Introduction
Every Windows user knows the sinking feeling that comes with pressing the power button, only to be met with a lethargic boot-up process. It’s a scenario that can grate on even the most patient individuals, often leading us to wonder what exactly is holding our shiny devices back...
I'm running Windows 10 Home with all updates on my Dell XPS 13 9380
I'm trying to upgrade my SSD to accommodate large astrophotography files, from 512GB to 1TB.
I have tried both AOMEI Backupper and EaseUS to clone the NVMe drive, with the same result.
I cannot get the new SSD to boot, and...
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Recently I took the 2.5" SSD off from my Windows notebook, formatted it and installed MACOSX to use it on. a Mac temporarily.
Some time later I bought a NVMe M.2 SSD to upgrade the MAC and a M.2 SSD to upgrade the Windows notebook.
As the Windows notebook accepts two 2.5" SATA SSDs, I...
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Since I've taken up gaming I've been paying particular attention to CPU core percentages and fan speed. I have a Rainmeter Widget that shows bar graphs for the individual cores. I've seen it peg all four cores at 100% for almost 10 minutes during game installation. The fans never came on. I used...
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This Dell XPS 8700 started out at Windows 8.1. Before I even started using it, I used Paragon's Migrate OS to SSD 4.0 to move the C: partition to an SSD and be able to boot to it. Prior to doing that I shrunk down the original C: to basically match the SSD size and created another data partition...
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I have a Lenovo T430 laptop that came with MS 7 64. The only thing I changed out was the hard drive to an SSD and the single channel 4 gig RAM to 8 gig dual channel. Both were done over a year ago and I had no issues with these upgrades at all.
Now I don't use my laptop for anything else than...
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Hi guys
So, I have a laptop that came with windows 8, I upgraded to windows 10 for free when it came and everything went okay. Now I want to upgrade my laptop HDD to a SSD, but I was wondering how will this affect my windows license key. I read some articles but the more I read more confusing...
Hello all. I have been wanting to post on the forums for the longest time but had some issues generating the logs needed to begin troubleshooting. Finally today I was able to fix my one .NET 3.x issue that was plaguing me for the longest time and now I've attached the logs for anyone to look and...
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I want to do a fresh installation, I have an OEM copy of Windows 7 Home Premium and I'm entitled to use the software. The people at Microsoft customer service are all foreign, very difficult to understand and won't budge an inch on anything. Worst customer service I've ever...
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I have an HP Envy 15 laptop and every now and again (at least once per day) the screen will go completely black for maybe half a second then come back on again. This sometimes occurs more than once but it will happen at least once every day while I'm using the computer. In addition, on occasion...
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I've recently bought a Dell Inspirion notebook with Windows 8.1 Home Edition 64 bit OEM pre-installed on it. Now, what i want to do is to replace the HDD with SSD, so i did a little research and....well, I' am more confused now! But first thing first.
For those who want to tell me about...
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Ever since I upgraded my HDD to a SSD I have been suffering hung process's that refuse to end. I have tried cmd prompt which says the process is not running but it shows in task manager. I've tried process explorer & that does nothing & the only way I can get the process to end so I can re...
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I have an HP Probook 4530s that the hard disk got corrupted. I cannot find my recovery DVD's so I simply re-installed windows 7 from a retail package (and used my computers product code. That part seemed to have worked fine.
Where I am running into a problem is that when the laptop goes into...
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I have a Dell XPS1645 Studio which came with Windows 7 x 64 bit Professional installed some 3 years ago. Last year I built a new desktop PC for work purposes (research Human Mechanics/ Motion). (Samsung SSD 128G 830, IB i5-3750K CPU, GTX66oTi, 16G xDDR3 Ram, Asus Sabertooth 77 M/B, etc)...
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Hey guys i got a new dell vastro 470 last year and i upgraded the hdd to a SSD Kingston Hyper X 240g.
so at first i had issues with crashing frequently and on reboot black screen with pls select boot device...
so dell and MS troubleshooted and said it was my motherboard sata 0 that was...
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Hello,
I am currently running Windows 7 Home Premium on a basic HD.
I recently purchased a new SSD and a full installation of Windows Ultimate.
I would like to install Windows Ultimate to the SSD and use my old HD as a secondary storage device. Most importantly, I do not want to lose any of...