system performance

Hello, I'm helping my mom out with this one. She's got an Acer Aspire 5733z-445 Intel PentiumP6100 3 GB DDR3 Memory TOSHIBA MK3259GSXP [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) Service Pack 1 (build 7601) On boot, it takes anywhere from 15-20 minutes for the computer to get to a...

When you try to open the “Check Disk” dialog box on systems where User Account Control (UAC) is enabled, the "Check Disk" dialog box may randomly stop responding for a short period of time after being opened. The user is unable to move the dialog box or... Link Removed

Hey guys, i'm trying to work out whats going on with my pc. It crashes fairly regularly but i have no idea how to find out whats wrong. I've attached a rar file with all of the minidumps, info from sf diagnostic tool, cpuz screen shots and the html export from rammon. I did however do a...

I have a Western Digital 1 TB External USB HDD. I have used it for some time. One day, I was copying files from my laptop to the USB HDD. It was taking for ever. So, I tries to cancel it. It wouldn't cancel. So, I disconnected the USB HDD by pulling the USB chord. From that day, it is not...

Hello. I'm new and would like some advice/help with my Dell Inspiron 1545. Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1 Pentium Dual-Core CPU T4200 @ 2.00GHz 4.00 GB 64-bit Operating System This error keeps coming up and keeps making startup time very lengthy or not at all. Log Name...

I had a BSOD pop up, the first on this machine, which indicated this error. I rebooted, and everything runs fine, until I tried to run Skyrim. The game froze during the loading screen, and after a hard re-start, I checked the Event Viewer. There were 1500+ items describing that same error, and...

I attempt to migrate a local Windows 7 fresh installation instance to FreeNAS iscsi target. I use dd to copy the windows 7 disk image and make it available as iscsi target disk. I then use sanboot to start the iscsi target, the windows OS boot till the windows logo screen and finally blue screen...

Hi all, I am new to the forums and I'm here out of desperation. I bought my wife a Dell Inspiron Zino HD with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled about 3 years ago. It has been working well since, with a few hiccups here and there. Three days ago it started behaving really badly: it would boot...

I have my games stored on a different SSD Drive & for whatever reason multiple empty MSIc.tmp folders are continuously being created there (lost count how many times & folders I've deleted) all the folders are also continuously locked (even after unlocking) even the ones that aren't MSIc.tmp...

Anytime I get to a dialog box or a text box or anything where I can type, I get a continuous/////////////////////////////// or a continuous ************************. The only way to stop it is to reboot - then it works OK for a while. Otherwise, I can't type anything anywhere. The characters...

This problem has been happening for quite a few months now. I boot up Windows 7, everything's fine, run some programs for a while (usually Google Chrome) and the taskbar freezes. I click on it and choose to close the program. It restarts and everything's fine for 5 minutes or so. Then, if I try...

Good Morning All,, well i am getting a problem with my window7(32),,whenever i start my laptop it unexpectedly shutdown once then after starting, Cpu processing reaches 90-100%. But I've checked throughout that there are no heavy applications or processes running. Both of these problems...

I am getting the error message " out of memory" whist in some programs. the explorer now and then shuts down and re starts . all sorts of funny things I have 6gb ram the hard drive makes a running noise far to long on stratup yet the start up files are minimul

Consider the following scenario. If you connect a hot swappable optical drive to the computer, it might not be displayed in Windows Explorer immediately although it has been displayed in Device Manager. It may take about 10 seconds to be displayed in... Link Removed

Applies to Windows7 and Windows8 A few Tips - A (Potentially) Useful, Valuable Compilation Many people miss Quick Launch in Windows 7. Although the new/redesigned Taskbar is what it is it can still be felt that there is a worthwhile purpose served by Quick Launch. It is (still) really a nice...

I HAVE RECENTLY INSTALLED WIN 7 ARC GAMER EDITION. I THINK ITS JUST REBUILT OF ULTIMATE. WHEN I CLICK RESOURCE MONITOR ICON IN TASK MANAGER OR IN START MENU NOTHING POPS UP.

You know, a lot has been said & written regarding Windows 8 boot time being fast & faster than Windows 7. I can offer a fairly reasonable A-B comparison. I am running x64 7 & 8, duel-boot, on the same box. @ this point their content, things installed & running, about the same. But, the boot...

While it may be a short term solution, there's a beta security program named ESET Endpoint Security (Beta) that runs well on Windows 8 CP. It's good through 04/30/2012. ESET has always delivered great security products, and is working hard to deliver more. For those who doesn't trust Windows...

Since about a week ago, whenever I turn on my laptop and login to Windows 7 I can't click anything for about 5-10 minutes (changes every time). A loading icon pops up while I can't click anything (reminds me of Mac spinning wheel of death). Sometimes the wallpaper will go white and a box comes...

Hiya, I am desperately trying stabilize my Pc. I am uploading couple of Crash dumps which I collected with from nirsoft. Thx for any help in advance. bandwith3636 ==================================================Dump File : 022012-21309-01.dmp Crash Time : 20/02/2012 11:54:00...