system performance

I recently did a clean install of my OS. I deleted the partition and reformatted my hard drive. I have a Dell Dimension 3000 running Windows XP Home Edition with SP3. It has a Pentium 4 processor 2.8 Ghz and 2GB of RAM. After installing windows XP, I put in my drivers for chipset, video, and...

Hi I was reading the post in the Windows 7 forum, about Microsoft's message that Security Essentials is not meant to be the only AV software that you run on your computer and that they may be dropping support for it. Does that mean that they want you to run 2 antivirus programs? I already...

Event Viewer in my Win 7: The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: Avgldx64 This is the train of events that lead to trouble: 1. I had AVG free for months and never had any problems with it. 2. 3 weeks ago I downloaded IObit Ultimate and Iobit Malware Fighter to...

I bought a used Dell E6500 with an Intel dual core processor (supposedly) but Win 7 Task Manager only finds one core. I've got other computers running dual core and quad core processors, and Performance > CPU history > One Graph per CPU will read as many processors as the processor title says it...

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Problems on my friend's laptop, which I'm trying to fix. First problem. Boot up (~35 seconds) and I'm on desktop. Open Start Menu and click on a program (say for example, IE). It loads for a bit, then the icon on the taskbar disappears. Let's open a different program, Chrome. Loads for a bit...

The system hangs after 10-30 minutes. No actual BSOD error - however, requires reboot. Cannot access task manager to view/kill tasks at that time. Most of the critical and error events in system event log appear to be networking related. Last 30 days of system log are attached. System is...

When TI is running a backup operation, my system becomes somewhat unresponsive, especially the mouse/cursor operation. I suppose that wouldn't be so bad, if it were scheduled to only run when I was not using the computer, but with my erratic schedule, that isn't possible. I think that I...

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I was checking the net for some repair parts for my truck .....Ok, stop laughing, its the truth..:angel: A message popped up from Windows Defender saying malware had been detected and it was taking action. It seems Windows Defender did quarantine 2 instances of the same Trojan and both have...

One of the reasons that I decided to do a clean installation of Windows is that sometimes it seems that activity on boot sometimes simply ceases for a prolonged period of time, like a minute or two with a black screen after login. So far I haven't experienced that on the new installation, but...

OK I have been having problems trying to get a client's computer fixed. It is an HP TouchSmart 300-1223 which is an all-in-one. First it was viruses. I got rid of 54 of them. Then the hard drive was bad. Just swapped it out and put a brand new install of Windows7 64-bit Home Premium...

Daughter has and ASUS X55c-si 30202m that came with windows 8 preinstalled. It has been giving her nothing bu fits, giant pain in the butt, just doesnt run well.( like i cannot get windows defender to start, lots of weird little stuff like that.) but the interface is just horrible for her(metro)...

Hey guys Ive been experiencing for about a month now computer slow downs and random blue screens whether im browsing the internet, listening to music, playing a game anything really i open an app or a webpage and my audio goes all glitchy as well really confused as I haven't come across this...

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I get Windows 7 rebooting on its own under the following condition: I power off the monitor and sometime later when I power it back on, I see that I am at the logon screen. If I never power off the monitor, Windows does not reboot on its own. I did change the power supply. sfc finds nothing...

Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

I have a samsung series 5 chronos windows 8 but somethings wrong with my computer first of all the cmd would close every time i try to open the window and i tried running it with "cmd /k ipconfig /all"on the run window and i tried going into the system32 folder but the windows explorer closes...

One of the four basic Libraries is Music. I found thousands (yes!) files in that Library, most of them I have no idea about and have absolutely nothing to do with music. Windows said they are references and deleting them will not remove the actual file from the PC. I found that incorrect, I...

Link RemovedEvent ID 100 and 200 are created at the same time when I boot my PC. Additionally boot time is also too high. From Event Viewer:Windows has started up: Boot Duration : 85054ms IsDegradation : false Incident Time (UTC) ...