system performance

I like watching live streams on Twitch.tv Problem is, I'm getting a lot of choppy play watching them even at 480p which is definitely not as ideal as 720p where I get the clearest quality. I was almost certain the problem was my internet connection. I have to use Comcast, which sucks, but I...

Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 545 64-bit system. I have 6.00 GB of RAM. A couple days ago, my computer suddenly became unresponsive. I left it alone for awhile to see if it was just a lag, but it remained unresponsive for 4+ hours, so I performed a hard restart. I logged into my profile as normal...

Folks, I've joined this forum for a couple reasons. Foremost is that I don't believe that Microsoft is interested in anything I have to say. Secondly, I'm using Windows 7 at my office and on my main personal computer and, after getting a new laptop with Windows 8, I realize that I have to...

For the past week or so I'm getting this error message. I've followed the suggestions on another Thread here with the same error. But the problem still remains. i.e. System file check - threw up nothing SO I did a System Upgrade Repair What I can tell you are: At the startup I get the error...

I was wondering if someone could help me, I have Windows Defender and Trend Micro Titanium 2013 installed on my Windows 7 laptop and the past few days, they keep switching off and I can't open the Trend Micro Titanium 2013 console at all, even after re-installing it and rebooting my laptop. Does...

I watch videos on a site and when I finish watching the bandwidth in DU Meter keeps running at 400-500 KB's/s. It would appear that it's like the videos are still running but they are not because the site and anything to do with it is shutdown. Not even a browser is running. Task manager tells...

Hello, I bought a vaio laptop a month ago. Intel® Core™ i5-3210M Processor 2.50 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.10 GHz Windows 8 Single Language 64 bit HDD: 750 GB (Serial ATA, 5400 rpm) NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640M LE GPU(SPEED MODE) with 2GB dedicated video memory/ Intel® HD Graphics...

Hi, I tried connecting youtube in my system(Windows 8 64-bit). I am surprising that youtube is workin some times and not getting connected some other times. Any solutions will be appreciated

A few days ago, I started a new thread about Windows 8 OS called, “After two weeks with Windows 8, I find it the least stable OS”. http://windows8forums.com/windows-8-discussion/18137-after-two-weeks-windows-8-i-find-least-stable-os-new-post.html My opinion was based on my personal...

This started about a year ago. What I did was upgrade from an Athlon X3 with an MSI 890S-G46 Mobo (that ran with no problems at all) to a nice FX-8120 with an MSI 890FXA-GD70 Mobo. Not long after that (but long enough to keep me from getting an RMA), I began getting the x101 stop code. I...

A couple of days ago there was an update. After that update my system slowed down a lot. The windows explorer takes about 10 seconds to open. The same kind of thing happened with the update in the beginning of last November. Running the disk error check helped a lot (when I finally found some...

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Many may know this (cool) and I could have mentioned it earlier but, I oft take things for granted & then impulsively think maybe it's not occurring to everyone & I suddenly say something so... Let me paint a scenario to make the point here... Let's say you put Win8 on a shiny new SSD. And...

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HP laptops/AMD processors/Windows Update freezes at 12% Yesterday at work we ran into issues with 2 HP laptops freezing at 12% when doing Windows Updates. A search of the web suggested that it may have been due to several things. We found a workaround that seems to work for us: - a...

Haali Media Splitter runs at boot and you can't turn it off. I didn’t install it, and I haven’t found a way to delete it. It isn’t listed in Programs and Features. I have tried to delete it with 2 startup managers (Advanced System Care 6 and CCleaner). There is no way to close the program...

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Occasionally, I run into a process that won't die, even though the associated app has been closed, and even using the Task Manager"s "End Process" or "End Process Tree" fails to effect the process. That only way I've found to kill it is by rebooting, but of course, that is often very...

I go to delete a file and Microsoft says 'preparing to delete'. No preparation was needed, its a 10kb file. So its very simple, delete the file win7, ive already closed the program that was using it (and confirmed in task manager). If its another program, then tell me what it is. MS shenanigans...

I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...