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What software better for defragmentation Windows OS. Auslogics, Paragon, other or Windows defragmentator? thnx

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So for the past couple days I have been having problem with windows 7 and explorer, Images are icons and not thumbnails. I have the folder options checked to NOT show icons just thumbnails. Now I have NO thumbnail cache.db files, I deleted them with glary utilities since disk cleanup does not...

For years I have been the "go-to" guy for fixing friends and family's computers, which usually were desktops (which i could rip open and replace the hardware in). lately a majority of the issues that i have had to address were laptop issues. while a lot of issues can be fixed with some sort of a...

I set up 2 folders on my desktop. one is for games and one is for utilities on my computer. They are shortcuts to programs on my machine. For some reason they keep changing size from a medium view to a large view. I tried doing several things including rebooting the system but nothing seems to...

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...

Hi, im just curious if there are a good software which u guys recommend me to use for Auto-Update of Drivers. Thanks.

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...

The Windows Club has quite a collection of freeware utilities: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/list-freeware-releases-from-the-windows-club This one, in particular, might be a good general purpose tool for solving a variety of problems...

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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 had 200 file arranged in a serial order i want to rename them by deleting the first 2 character of every file name how can i do it??

Specs: Motherboard: FOXCONN 2A92 Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 RAM: 6 GB OS: Windows 7 SP 1 When I started my computer this morning, I got an immediate BSOD after logging into my account. Trial and error eventually narrowed the cause down to establishing a network connection, which was done...

Hello, I have owned an alienware x51 gamin desktop for the past year and a half and I'm considering restoring it to factory default to enhance the performance and fix some issues. Over the years I have been actively installing many 3rd party utilities and apps that have changed system files and...

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...