system health

Windows 11 has experienced significant evolution since its debut, continuously pushing toward more responsive, user-centric computing. Microsoft’s newly announced real-time performance logging feature marks another bold step in that journey. This update, now rolling out as part of the Windows 11...

Beneath the glossy surface of Windows 11 beats a complex system that, like all modern operating systems, sometimes stumbles. System crashes, mysterious freezes, or that maddening moment when your favorite game collapses mid-battle are experiences familiar to far too many users. In those moments...

Have you ever noticed your Windows PC suddenly responding a bit sluggishly, with apps taking just that extra beat to open, or certain programs acting in a way that feels just a tad off? These everyday tech hiccups can be both annoying and puzzling, especially when there’s no obvious culprit like...

A quietly transformational update is making its way into Windows 11, promising to demystify the cryptic world of PC hardware for the everyday user. Microsoft’s latest feature, currently in the pipeline for the highly anticipated Windows 11 24H2 release, leverages system-level insight to help...

The PC Health Check app, introduced by Microsoft, is designed to simplify the process of evaluating system compatibility, monitoring hardware health, and optimizing overall device performance for users on Windows. This app drew wide attention following the Windows 11 announcement, as it became...

Many Windows users looking for every possible edge in boot speed have encountered Fast Startup—a feature Microsoft touts as a clever way to slash the time it takes to get your PC running after shutdown. By taking a hybrid approach, saving the system state to disk in a hibernation-like file, Fast...

My computer was running slow and hot, and I noticed that a process called vmmem was using 85-99% of my CPU at all times. I ran wsl --shutdown in the command line, and shut down my computer. Now, my CPU is running at a more normal level, but I'm concerned that I have a virus on my computer. I...

This is what I'm seeing: How can I trace down who 4&232151f9&0 is? Under Device manager I can see (5) ROOT_HUBs so that doesn't help. All of them removed allow under power management. Any ideas how to precisely find out which one is responsible? Thank you in advance.

I have 2 (sometimes more) rundll32 processes shown in my taskmanager and one of them repeatedly opens and closes, while the loading icon is flickering next to my cursor. I've already tried restarting the system, Malwarebytes didn't find anything and I couldn't find anything helpful on the...

Just got done helping a neighbor. Her mouse was spinning and the system was slow. Looked in task manager and saw an iexplore process which had been spawned via a script to run hidden. Basically it was mining crypto currency in the background. Resolving it was simply a matter of closing the...

Does a virus affect other components besides the hard drive, such as memory etc?

Hi folks, I'm having real trouble diagnosing a persistent blue screen problem. It started about a year ago after upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10. I initially did an upgrade install but have since performed numerous clean installs of win 10. It is a home built system. One of many I have...

I had not noticed this before but I am getting a note at the bottom of the MSE page that says “Preliminary scan results show that malicious or potentially unwanted software might exist on your system. it pops up halfway through a scan. You can review detected items when the scan has completed...

Attached are the dump files from the W7F tool. I keep getting this BSOD on my laptop and it started yesterday. I have an SSD and it's less than a year old, so I doubt it failed. It's a Crucial MX100 and Crystal Disk Mark says its health is at 95%. I'm running an sfc /scannow operation right...

Last week my computer shutdown from going to hot. I replaced the thermal paste and that helped some. Tonight I performed a stress test on my cpu from intel extreme tuning utulity for 2 min The temps were 91, 99, 88, 99 When not under stress the cores temps fluctuate but are around 61, 67...

Hi! Does anyone here use this windows tool to troubleshoot. I think it's a great tool. Not wonderful, but it might help lead you to problems you may be having. I don't understand why more help forums don't at least call attention to it. To me it's the event viewer in a graft form, and a lot...

Hi getting blue screens since a few days when I move around larger files from different hard drives (non-SSD) to others in order to format my truecrypt encrypted drives to remove the encryption (want to switch to modern tool, which is still developed and gets bug fixes). Attached you the files...

Hello everyone, I have a big problem of slowness with my laptop. I checked for viruses and malwares with different programs (nothing detected), then I reset my laptop to factory settings and my computer is still slow. As soon as I open it, more than 80% of the RAM is being used (with not a...

Windows 8 was the last Microsoft operating system to fully support the un-popular performance monitor so I'd like to show you one of the hidden advantages of staying with eight instead of up-grading to 8.1.1 1. Starting from the desk top press [windows key] + [x] then press [p] to open the...

I used the disc with a generic key to install and my 8 key to activate. All went well but the cleanup system files will not close. It removes bits at a time but the fan is humming and it does not say successful or close. It does chip away so there are a few mbs left. I was hoping to close so I...