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    Help Needed: Facing Window Issue on Lenovo PC

    Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing well. I'm reaching out to this community because I've been encountering a perplexing issue with my Lenovo Link Removed, and I'm hoping someone here might have some insight or suggestions. Problem Description: Recently, I've been experiencing some unexpected...
  2. Why are there many zombie processed shown in RamMap?

    After some time using win10 (or other windows os), many zombie processes can be seen in RamMap, these PIDs can't be found in task manager. Is there a bug in os memory management driver?
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    Windows 10 Confirm my memory problem?

    I'm running a Windows Server 2019. It is very slow. Is this why? My memory is all used up? What should Memory % be for a server? What is the optimum or expected value to make a server run smoothly?
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    Server 2016 Unresponsive - Windows Installer

    I have a Server 2016 (Standard) that I use to run Remote Desktop Services for 7 users. The box has two Xeon E5-2690 (2.9 Ghz) cpus, 256 Gb, and two 2 TB SSD drives. The box had been working flawlessly for ages. Within the last two weeks I've had to resort to restarting it every day...
  6. AA19-290A: Microsoft Ending Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

    Original release date: October 17, 2019 Summary On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will end extended support for their Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems.[1] After this date, these products will no longer receive free technical support, or software and security updates...
  7. Steven Black Hosts File causing problems

    I was using the Steven Black Hosts File to block malware and Ads. But lately the DNS Client kept activating and using 30 - 50% of my CPU and blocking me from doing anything online. By googling the symptoms of my DNS Client getting stuck like that I found that it can be caused by too large of a...
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    Windows 7 Not Enough Memory

    How can I investigate possible cause/s for 'Not enough memory'? I frequently encounter this but when I check the task manager, used virtual and physical memory didn't even reach half of the available memory. thank you.
  9. Internet Explorer 11 consumes high memory and CPU cycles after you install update MS15-106

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  10. Installing and searching for updates is slow and high CPU usage occurs in Windows 7 and...

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  11. Windows 8 Service Host uses too much ram, is it normal or not?

  12. Windows 7 Capitalising on my ram...

    Back to running Windows-7-pro. Still more solid than 8.1 or beta-10. I have 16-gigs of ram on the board. Windows-7 sees it, but I often wondered if it actually uses it. I had the pagefile at 12-gigs. So I did a test. I moved 38-gigs from one sata drive to another sata drive. The desktop...
  13. Windows 7 Assistance and advice requested

    I have the standard 4gb of ram in my Win 7 pro media center 64 bit edition. Custom build. Crucial 64mb ssd updated with a 1.5 TB, and a 1 TB HDDs. My system is continuously using 93-97% ram memory according to Windows. I have tried turning off everything I can to lower the usage, stopping...
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    Windows 7 Task manager

    I am trying to stop processes running as this is slowing my computer down considerably. I have tried to do this with Task Manager but when I right click on a process the message "operation could not be completed, access is denied" Can anyone tell me an alternate way to stop these processes...
  15. Windows 8 Question about virtual box?

    Hi Just a really quick question about running a OS in VMware Player (I said VB in the title and I can't change it now). I installed Ubuntu into VMware Player and it runs really slow. Everything works even the sound but video stutters etc, I'm assuming that's because my computer is really...
  16. Windows 8 questions about Microsoft windows

    I am curious about Microsoft Windows. So I have a few questions. Microsoft Windows needs an antivirus program because it is in danger of getting viruses. Microsoft Windows also needs anti malware protection, antispyware protection.. Windows needs firewalls to protect from hackers. Windows...
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    Metafile and Page File size increasing rapidly

    Hi all, I have a Windows 2008 R2 server. All updates are completed. I am running a software which makes map tiling (creating square tile png images). When I start the process, RAM usage increases and my application crashes with a message of no available memory. I used RAMMAP utility to find...
  18. Windows 7 I HAVE WIN 7 WITH 1 GB RAM.....

    I HAVE WIN 7 WITH 1 GB RAM..... I installed yesterday only. When i open task manager performance tab, it shows cached 320 MB, Available 360 MB n free 30 MB which comes nearly equal to to 700 MB. Where does the rest of memory go n how to get it back? Plz help...!!!
  19. High memory usage by the Svchost.exe process after you install Windows Management Framework...

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    Windows XP Very unusual usage in Windows Task Manager

    I have an issue with Windows Task Manager in an XP environment. Yeah, I know, upgrade or get a new PC. This machine is actually a cast-off, from someone else who got a new tower, but I was hoping to use it as a dual boot machine and make it last longer. Anyway, I have an image to share, it's...