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In the latest Build 9879 disk cleaner takes about 2 minutes before it comes up. I have no idea why. Hoping someone here might have the answer.

Hello all, i need a tool or a method to count how many that a service or a process ( in the task manger )running please see the example such ass if a service named XX is used by the system twice i need a tool that tells me the the total number is 2 Link Removed

Have you tried to upgrade from Windows 8 to 8.1 without success? Well Microsoft are doing something about it according to Paul Thurrott. An update will soon be available via the update utility which will hopefully solve those issues. Read Paul's blog here which also contains links for an early...

I am working on a Toshiba Satalight laptop. The HDD is starting to show bad sectors. I have a new HDD and would like to ghost all the info and partitions to the new drive. So it will have all the tools and the rescue image. Question what is the best utillity to use for this job? Sent from my...

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Okay so here is the scoop inb my latest computing adventure: I have a friend from work who needed me to get his internet working, okay fine i got it working easy enough, just using standard windows 7 stuff no issues. However his main family computer is another story. My friends father got a...

A number of Linux distros have small footprints that make them especially suited to applications like running them from a USB stick. What accounts for the difference in size compared to the "full" sized distros? What is missing? Is it just that full-sized ones have bloat from being bundled...

So the BSOD I got the other day hasn't repeated, but now I'm getting a different one, as stated in the subject. Kernal_data_inpage_error Error code 0x00000007a The first time it referenced ataport.sys, the second time it didn't reference anything. Neither one actually prepared a dump file, my...

Simply because it has everything that others don't. Comparison Chart with StartIsBack, Start8. etc., Classic Shell • View topic - Compare Start Menus:Classic Shell vs Windows 10 and others Others will say, "YOU DON'T NEED IT." I will say, "WHY NOT? IT'S FREE and it makes my daily computing...

I've just upgraded to Windows 7, and successfully installed and used Office 2003. I now find that the Office 2003 software does not recognise the file format of .xlsx files. Under XP, a small utility came into action to convert the file to .xls format. Is it possible to get this working again...

Taking a breather from Visual Studio Extensions, today our Mobile Monday project shows you how you can build Cortana enabled projects... Link Removed ... You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver personalized, natural experiences to users. What you may...

I haven't tried this yet so I don't know if it will work or not. I have a separate partition for my automatic backup setup using Windows' native utility called Backup and Restore. The question is, is it okay to hide a partition even though it is in use as a destination storage for my backup...

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP 1 ASUS laptop K52F Windows update is extremely slow. Windows Update IS downloading updates but the download speed is so very slow - about 10 kbps - that Windows Update is unusable. I tested my download speed against other sites, for example updating...

Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...

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Is there a photo viewing app that automatically rotates a picture, so if the picture is landscape then it is landscape on the screen but if it is a portrait then it is portrait on the screen, to maximize the size of the picture on the small screen? Many Android apps do this but I have not found...

I installed and used today the recently introduced (with KB 2852386) new Disk Cleanup Utility. After having performed the cleanup with multiple reboots I rechecked the size of the C:\Windows\winsxs\ folder. The size shrinks from approx 12.5 GB to 11GB Wow! :-( Is there something wrong...

IObit Uninstaller is a freeware; Revo Uninstaller has paid and free versions. Would it be possible that a freeware can compete with a paid app?

I never had a problem with image backup creation before with Win 8 using the utility Windows 7 File Recovery. I am aware that this utility is gone in Win 8.1 and the same utility is now under File History. I've tried using this new utility last night to create a backup image of Win 8.1 and it...