system resources

This message appears at the most likely of times, when I'm playing a game but as the title says I have 6 gb (three 2gb sticks of corshair ddr3 1600mhz) ram although the problem is not isolated only to games but happens sometimes when watching netflix. When the message appears my desktop theme is...

heya folks another gamer in trouble here! So here's the problem : when idle, my cpu usage is around 20%, which is allot more than it should be in my opinion. Whenever I start a game, Battlefield : Bad Company 2 which is the game i've been playing allot lately, my cpu usage doesnt come down from...

What does it mean when it says RAM: 4.00gb (2.87gb usable) ?

Identify Your System Resources: I review the basics of System Information, AIDA, Reliability Monitor, Resource Manager, and Event Logs. I identify the various tools which can be used to identify system properties, information, and hardware errors. These tools are valuable for sharing...

Hi, I just did a reformat of my machine with new hardware. I upgraded the memory to 8gb. Im using 64bit windows ultimate and for some reason 4 of the 8gb are showing up in system resources as 'hardware reserved'. Any ideas why? thank you.

Did anyone ever find it useful to change a process priority? I never did. When I encode full HD video in Encore, it takes a lot of CPU power and even if I watch an HD movie on KMplayer, it has a little stutter. I tried lowering the Encore process priority and I also tried raising the...

I have just installed the 32-bit Adobe Master Suite on my work PC and the one program I need the most (Dreamweaver) hangs at 100% at all times after opening. ALL other Adobe CS5 programs DON'T do this, and remain at a low 0-20% during idle. This just started happening about a a day ago, and...

On starting my computer this morning I have noticed the CPU cooling fans running a little harder than I'm used to hearing when just using Firefox. On looking at the task manager I have noticed that rather than sitting at the normal 0% CPU usage when idle a process labelled NTVDM.exe is...

Memory Usage Goes Up Gradually (Memory Leak) When I starting the Windows (in the first few hours) everything is normal But after 1 day or 2 (sooner or later) the amount of available memory gradually goes down and the physical memory usage increasing. This increasing, continues until the memory...

Hi all, I have been doing allot of research on Win7's Task Manager, in particular the Performance Tab because I am getting issues I am not understanding. What I understand: Total: amount of RAM installed on your computer Cached: amount of physical memory used recently for system...

When I open the Task Manager and look at the number of "Processes" at the bottom left-hand corner, it says that I have approximately 75 processes running (on average). Is this amount too high? My Windows XP desktop only has around 30 processes running (on average).

By Terry Blount This is a round up of processes, services and features that I have turned off. I have tested these for months under Windows 7. My system is faster and stable and has far less overhead than the day I installed Windows 7. My boot time as recorded by BootRacer is down to 17...

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hi! I'm windows 7 user like 2 months ago, but now i have a big drivers problem. all start when i try to install logme in hamachi, the software installed good, but couldn't connect whit my friends, when I look up in device manager, the hamachi network internet isn't there, so I try to...

Hi guys, I have a nasty problem with my brand new Windows 7 Ultimate. Yesterday, I installed it on my desktop and it works perfectly, no single problem! Today, I install 7 on my laptop and installation doesn't cause any problem, so far so good. BUT, when I turn my laptop on, it takes more than...

I have noticed ever since installing windows 7 that it will for no apparent reason freeze, although the mouse will happily move as normal. I cannot get anything else to work. Cut a long story short, I managed to run task manager and found that wmpnetwk.exe was the culprit. Having told the pc to...

I've been using windows 7 ultimate 64bit for a few weeks. It's all good except; When i try to get in hardrives, folders etc. it waits 2-3 seconds each time. Forward-backward-shortcut any attempt on opening a folder makes me wait 2-3 seconds. When i check it on task manager, each time i click...

First off, I have a: Acer Aspire 5532 AMD Athlon Processor TF-20 1.60 GHz 3 GB RAM 64-bit Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium (When I purchased the laptop it already had Windows 7 installed) Now the problem is, the CPU usage is 100% the majority of the time. If I open anything such as...

If I leave my PC on for longer than about 6-8 hours my windows 7 starts creating more explorer.exe's. So when I open the task manager and look at running tasks there are about 10-12 explorer.exe tasks running. Also when this happens if i right click to open the drop down menu of a folder or...

Well, first off, I've been getting some Blue Screen about once a week now. I would try and fix it myself if I could even read what the file was. I took a picture the other day. Link Removed due to 404 Error My hand was not shaky or anything, this is how it appears to me. So I know its a...