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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...

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.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...!!!

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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...

I generally understand the CPU activity graphs in the resource monitor, with the exception of the first one...the total CPU activity displayed on it at first glance makes sense, when looking at the area shown in green, which is the total CPU activity, but there is also a blue line above that...

I have a rather large Excel file (around 100 MB) and it is very slow when I make changes to it or save it. The task manager shows that my CPU usage is upwards toward 100%. It says that "Excel cannot complete this task with available resources".

Okay, I have a problem with IE10 for ages now. For my work I have to open a lot of browser instances. I am using mainly IE10 and Firefox. Every time, when I have a several browsers and tabs open in IE, it regulary happens that the next browserscreen I open turns to a blank page. This only...

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Hi all: I have tried searching and found nothing on this, and although I am sure there is something I am sure my search terms were poor. So if this is discussed already, if someone could just point me in the right direction of the thread I would appreciate it. I use my system for media...

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