system cleanup

Once again I have setup here an 64bit Win7 pro system. Many of the files from the D: partition were taken from the previous Win7 system resp. copied from another Win7 (WinXP) computer. When I look at some of the security tabs of some of the files and folders then various user entries exist...

I recently have begun having constant BSODs when playing any games on my system. They just started this weekend, besides an occasional crash here and there in the past. Now, I can't go more than 20-30 minutes of playing any game without it crashing. All of the dmp files seem to point to...

Hi all, I used Glary Utilities empty folders finder and found a whole bunch of empty folders, I was wondering can I just delete all of them or should I just leave them where they are? Thanks, Frank

I searched posts for two days and found nothing that was what I need. My machine had Visual Studio 10 on it, but I recently took it off. That's where the question comes in. In my Add/Remove I have all these Microsoft entries for SQL Server, Visual C++ 2005-2010, and MS XML. I am trying to...

I got a new computer. SSD and HDD. I only installed windows and a few programs on the ssd. The windows folder is 18gb. How do I get rid of like half of it ? Thanks in advance

Windows Updates recently automatically installed two .NET 4 updates. Almost immediately my system began misbehaving: my Firefox Booksmarks toolbar disappeared along with all the bookmarks it held, the shutdown/sleep/lock/logoff button in the start menu changed selection each time the Start menu...

I'm not that computer smart, but I really don't have the money to put my laptop in a shop right now or for a while. I think it's been a week now for sure that my laptop has been freezing at random times and when it goes Idle and I come back it doesn't come off idle, it goes straight to a blue...

Hello buddies. I have been plagued by a bsod errors on my windows 7 home premium 64 bit (sony vaio laptop AMD core 4GB RAM) for the past 4 months namely by the title "kernel_inpage_error". The error codes are usually like 0X00000F4 or 0X000007A. I have been banging my head for days regarding the...

What can I do to lower the Physical Memory Usage in my Laptop? For information, I am using Windows Seven Ultimate (build 7600) with RAM 1 GB, Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27 GHz. When I hit task manager, the Physical Memory: Total : 941 Cached : 85 Available : 81...

I was doing a virus scan and saw there are like 20,000 files located inside the C:\$Recycle.Bin folder that were being scanned. I went to the folder to delete these files and there are no files to be found. Where is all this crap located and how do I wipe it out permanently?

After copy a lot copying file from my old computer to new Windows7 computer. I must have messed up because I now have in my c: drive: c:\Program Files 6/20/2010 4:27 PM c:\Program Files 6/20/2010 3:01 PM c:\Program Files(x86) 6/20/2010 1:50 AM How can I fix this? Don Cole

I have a new computer less then 24 hours old. It is running win7 x64 home premium. It came , unknown to me with the entire suite of essentials. Now, I use live writer, photo gallery and windows mail on my previous computer and I new to try uninstall from control panel. I did this and the...

hello i had windows 7 ready to install into my C drive and over vista, but had not enough space required for the install and couldnt remove any files/programs etc because the major space factor on c drive was mainly in the winxsx file which i understand should NOT be touched! so the only...

I installed RTM (x86), and did a "fresh install". When setup was done, I went to delete Windows.old and Windows.000. Windows.000 deleted OK. Windows.old ( which has /Windows and /Program Files directories in it ) won't delete. The OS keeps telling me I need "Trusted Installer" permission to...

I recently (1 week) moved from Vista to the RC with a clean install that was supposed to format my laptops hard drive. Now when I view my C: drive's properties it says 168gb used and 33gb free space. I have a couple word docs and maybe 1gb of music that I've actually put on since I installed...

Hello, I had vista and i upgraded to windows with about 16GB space free - now i have 7GB and i understand that windows 7 takes up space but is there anyway off getting rid off vista to clean up the space? as i game it will be quite hard to live with 7GB! But then again this may not be a safe...

I have been trying various types of uninstall software to get rid of some stubborn apps that refuse to show up on the list of things installed on my system, so can't get rid of them. One really stubborn program refuses to be uninstalled in any way -- it is Avanquest System Suite 8.

Hello everyone, yesterday, I was exploring the properties for the notification area in Vista Home Premium. Within the "Hide Inactive Icons / Customize area, I found a list of hidden icons. All is well however i noticed there were hidden icons from programs I had long since "uninstalled". I...