system performance

Anyone know of a program that can log when a particular process starts, finishes, what parameters are passed, cpu usage, etc. Process Explorer gives me that info but I have to be watching it to see the process in question. I have a rundll process that runs sometime in the morning that is using...

Hello guys. I am a windows 10 user for 2 weeks now and everything is going on really well. However, when i installed the latest technical preview of Windows 10 (10041), something weird started to happen. Random hangs started to occur without a reason and it's really frustrating because I have to...

Here some issues, of which I think, that they are all related to very small or marginal systems I am testing on an very small and underpowered system: Acer Aspire One, (Atom N270 @ 1.6 GHz, 1 GB ram, Intel 945 Express – WDDM1.0 Video, Hitachi HTS543216L9A300 ATA 150 GB disk, Realtek PCIe FE...

The other day a friend and I decided to have a game of L4D2 although for some strange reason the game would start but then crash. Whilst searching for a fix, a solution was found which involved using the System file scanner to repair system files. The trouble is that with recent builds the SFC...

So about a month ago my computers audio started to crackle and skip. Rebooting corrects the problem for about 30 minutes then its back to crackling. It happens while I play any sort of video game (Arma, Diablo III, Counter Strike) and it also happens when watching/listening to any sort of media...

I am running a Lenovo B305 "IdeaCentre" all-in-one computer with Windows 7 Home Premere. After an automatic Windows Update or running of CCLEANER (I do not know which), I get the exact same error message for 20 programs when I boot up. The error message is: "googledrive sync.exe bad image...

I recently downloaded VSDC Media Editor from Softnic and then I started getting a crap ton of ads and popups. i started looking through my task manager and found KynuminitrianHelper and Kynuminitrian. It is in my program files (x86) and it doesn't show up in Windows Explorer. yet i can access it...

I can't help but believe that Microsoft took WEI (Windows Experience Index) out of Windows to appease to brick & mortar stores like 'BB' that couldn't fool their customers anymore when they tried to sell inferior quality PC's as though they were of better quality. What do you think? 1.) Why...

When I try to shutdown the computer using Win 7 ultimate it displays Shutdown in Progress but nothing happens even after 30 min wait. I have to shut it down using a power switch. On reboot in boots into Win 7 normally, like it was a regular shutdown. When I tried to run shutdown.exe /s /f /t 10...

Hello, I am facing a very strange issue. I recently upgraded my Desktop PC with a Gigabyte H97M-D3H motherboard and an Intel Core i5-4590 Processor and a Kingsdom 120 gb SSd. Then I installed Windows 8.1 x64 Pro at my SSD Drive (IDE mode) and after the successful installation when I turn on the...

On my 64bit Win 7 system there is a big file C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\windows.edb As far as I have read its the index file for the built-in windows indexing service. Hmm, where can I disable this service in "Services"? There is no such service On the other...

Used to be worse but I fixed it for the most part. Except there's this one over 1 I don't know how to fix. Please help! I abhor crackly speakers. I have Windows 8 HP Touchscreen Envy. Any other info you may need to know?

I am using windows 7 service pack 1 32-bit OS and it has many software’s such as NI LabView, TINA, Code composer studio, etc., during the normal usage the memory usage of the system is around 70% if I open a browser it reaches up to 95% and most of the system memory is getting occupied by the...

i recently began using win 7 64 ultimate sp1 from win xp sp3 and one of the first things i noticed is that if i don't move the mouse for about 1-2 minutes the red led on my computer flashes all the time! and there's sound like the harddisks are being used.. even now as i write it's doing this...

I am working on a computer that has com surrogate multiplying and eating up huge amounts of ram, but only when there are desktop icons. I remove all desktop icons (move everything to a different folder) and have no problem. I don't have the problem with a Diagnostic boot but do with no startup...

Today my partner unplugged a number of network cables, not realising their importance. Now for about three hours my Windows 7 desktop will not find one of the computers on my home network (a networked file store). Two windows XP systems on the network successfully find this machine and can...

I keep getting bsods a few times a day now and end up with this error code after i did the verified drivers stress test, when i was running the test my computer would blue screen just b4 the login everytime so im guessing its a driver issue of some sort. STOP 0x000000C9 (0x000000000000023E...

Win 7 prof, 24 gig ram, Asus motherboard and several hard drives, regular WDs and 2 SSD. Everything has been fine for months. Tonight I closed out of all programs, went away and when I came back there was a strange notification that said my Plextor SSD (which is my drive C) is failing and I...

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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