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How effective is a tool like Iolo's System Mechanic? [closed]
I'm evaluating System Mechanic for 2 computers and while it seems to be able to discover a lot of problems that I didn't know about, it fails to fix the one problem I was trying to fix (a problem for ...
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How big a performance impact on Core i7 Xeon is caused by not installing RAM in pairs?
At work I have a dual CPU workstation (HP Z600) with i7 / Xeon E5620 Gulftowns installed on a Intel 5520 based motherboard. Factory, it was installed with 2x2GB sticks enabling 4GB in dual channel ...
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Browsing to localhost is slow when connected to Internet
When I browse localhost in my browser when connected to the Internet, the response is slow; it takes 30 seconds or completely times out. When I disconnect from the Internet, it is blazing fast and ...
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Diagnosing boot performance on Win7
I am trying to diagnose the problems I've been having with boot-up on my machine.
The system drive is an SSD, so it should be fairly quick.
However there is one moment, right after the "Welcome" wheel ...
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How to increase performance for cost of appearance in Windows 7 RDP connection?
I am searching for method to increase Windows 7 speed, via RDP. I mean, I need better performance. I know, I searched for solutions and already followed them up, but maybe there is something else to ...
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Where did my memory go after having a long up-time?
I have a Windows 7 Professional computer with 12GB of RAM. On a fresh start up, the amount of RAM is more than adequate for my needs. However, a couple of weeks into up-time and it appears that the ...
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MTU, RWIN, and MSS
I have been doing some reading into TCP Receive Window (RWIN), Maximum Segment Size (MSS) and Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU). Right off the bat I have some questions and I need a power user's help!
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Unknown error in iolo system mechanic
I was using system mechanic which is not working properly it gives an "unknown error". I have tried to uninstall and re-install , tried to remove it completely from registry , tried to re-install it ...
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How can I keep my laptop fan on the entire time?
I have a fan on my laptop that doesn't turn on often enough. The computer doesn't crash, but becomes very laggy.
When the fan turns on the computer starts running fast again.
How can I keep the ...
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What can I do to improve my laptop's performance? [closed]
Core i5 2.67 GHz Processor
2GB RAM
250GB Hard Drive(the C: Drive has a total of 116GB out of which 17.24GB is free)
32bit Windows 7 Professional
I have a lot of themes installed plus I also have ...
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4answers
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How can I fix my slow computer?
I use a Lenovo W520 laptop with 4gig of memory, 64bit Windows 7, intel i7 processor, 7200 rpm hard disc.
The computer seems to be very slow at times and when it's slow I look at my disk-hit LED and ...
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Windows 7 operates normally for several minutes after startup, then stalls.
When I power on my Windows 7 PC it behaves normally for ~5 minutes, and then I can't open any programs. If I opened something quickly (in the time before the stall) I can still use it. When the ...
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speeding up wakeup time / pauses with Windows 7 (64bit) on laptop
I'm looking both for some general advice, and any specific hints for my situation. (so please don't close as too localized, even the general advice is helpful)
General question:
I have a laptop, ...
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Windows File file listing painfully slow
I am using Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium with 500 GB 7200 RPM Seagate Hybrid SSD drive.
Lately my system has slowed down painfully: listing file in a directory using Windows Explorer or any other ...
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1answer
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CPU Maximum Frequency stuck at 59%
I have just installed a Windows 7 32-bit on my HP Compaq nx6310 notebook. However, once I boot into Normal Mode, I receive 2 Kernel-Processor-Power Event ID 37 warnings in my event log indicating that ...
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Galaxy geforce gtx 560 driver crash and slowdown
I've had my Galaxy GTX 560 graphics card for about one and a half years and recently it had started causing me some issues.
at random, the card would simply perform very poorly and I would get very ...
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SNMP: Calculating polling
I'm doing some reading on SNMP and have Stallings' book "SNMP, SNMPv2 and RMON" (1996).
He shows how by using some basic math you are able to "determine the maximum number of stations that the ...
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Extremely slow internet speed after reinstall
I have recently had a hard drive failure so I was forced to reinstall my OS (Windows 7).
After a fresh install, I noticed the internet speed became extremely slow (~15 minutes for downloading a 20MB ...
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32bit os on a 64bit machine - what are the prices? [duplicate]
The it department installed a 32bit win7 on the I7 machine they are giving me.
I saw several questions asking here whether it is possible, which i now is the case, but I am still no clear about the ...
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Windows 7 laptop suddenly very slow; cannot determine cause
I am working on a friend's laptop that became suddenly slow - to the point of not being usable. Boot time is fine, but Windows 7 takes forever to load and run. It is an HP Pavilion dv6.
Here is the ...
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Graphics-related “Slow motion” in Windows 7 64-bit OS, Persistant [Resolved]
What seems to be a DirectX problem in Windows popped up a few hours ago after a blue screen that was too fast to read the error code from. Its effect is that minimizing/loading windows are now slow. ...
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How to improve ram and hard drive performance
I'm not able to figure out what the actual problem with my system is. It takes 15-20 min to start up completely and when I checked the start up programs there was no big program listed.
When I open ...
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1answer
92 views
How to improve the system performance
I'm really frustrated and need some expert help. I'm using Hp Pavilion dv6910tx laptop having 3 G.B. of RAM and 320 Hard -disk. And, I'm using Windows7 professional OS (for more than a year). Since, ...
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1answer
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Windows Explorer making thousands of registry reads per second, slows computer to a halt
This is a Windows 7 64-bit install. Towards the end of the day, all of the sudden, their computer will grind to a halt. It stops responding for a few seconds while performing any action.
I ran ...
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Computer crawling but idle CPU is ~90%
I haven't had this kind of sluggishness for years - I've a quad-core PC with 4Gb RAM running Windows7 and it's normally fine but sometimes just bogs right down... windows stop responding for a few ...
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How to diagnose Windows 7 x64 slowdown after leaving a laptop running for several days
Myself, along with several others in our office, have a standard company-issued laptop. Lenovo Thinkpad T510s with 4GB RAM, i7 M620 CPU and NVIDIA NVS 3100M graphics card. They are running Windows 7 ...
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System processes slowing down my Windows?
About 3-4 months ago my Windows 7 started to work slower.
I found that it happened when DllHost.exe and WmiPrvSe.exe were running, but I'm not sure if these are causing the problem, though. And ...
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Is Windows 7 on a SSD slower if I use Windows integrated mirroring?
Yesterday I configured Windows software mirroring for my SSD and one of my HDD, because I don't want to loose any data from the SSD. Now Windows seems to be much slower. Is mirroring in Windows 7 so ...
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Notepad takes 8 seconds to open
I have an i7-3930K with 32GB RAM, using 256GB SSD, running Win 7 Ultimate.
It takes 8 seconds to open notepad after going
Win+r -> notepad -> enter
Why is this so SLOW? WTF?
Don't suggest ...
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Webpages open PAINFULLY slow in Internet Explorer on Windows 7
I have a computer with Windows 7. Web pages open fine in Firefox, but in Internet Explorer, they open painfully slow... They'll load most of the page, but then hang up on something. I have no idea how ...
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Long shutdown times in Windows 7
I'm experiencing long shutdown times in Windows 7 Professional on newly built machines. After joining to a domain, they take over ten minutes to shut down. There is almost no software installed ...
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What does “Optimize this library for…” mean in Windows 7?
If I right click on any item in my library in windows 7, there is an option for optimizing folders for _. What is this? If i optimize for pictures, does it mean that it just gives me more higher ...
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Software to track CPU by process in Windows 7
I need to track CPU by process in Windows 7 and log results in a file.
How could I do this please?
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Can I measure PING time between two other computers?
I am investigating a perf issue in the field. Typically, there just isn't enough bandwidth for my app to be speedy. Typically the way it works, is that I ask to Terminal (via VNC or WebEx) into the ...
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Why are start-up times faster on Windows 7 than on XP? [closed]
Reading a hotter question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? There is a great answer there by ClickUpvote, which shows some design differences that makes 8 faster:
Difference between win7 ...
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163 views
Could a slow graphics card affect Windows's performance?
Could a slow graphics card cause slow performance in Windows? Obviously a graphics card is mostly used when playing video games, but do Windows and normal office apps (e.g. Microsoft Office, Internet ...
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2-thread Perl program slower if run using a RAMdisk within a Virtualbox?
I run a perl script inside a Virtualbox (both the host and guest OS are Windows 7).
The Virtualbox has been given 4 CPUs out of 8 (everything runs on a Intel i7) and 3 GB RAM (out of 8 available).
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What's the reason aero turns off and then sometimes comes back again?
Just now it happened, and after a couple minutes it turned back on, which is not something that happened before. Before this I have only seen it turning off by itself and I had to restart it after a ...
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Laptop having random and frequent slowdowns
So I have a Toshiba satellite with an i7 processor. It's under a year old and has been working fine until about a month ago. My problem is that no matter what I do with my laptop, whether gaming, ...
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Is there a way to easily disable output to my second monitor to improve my video performance in a game?
I have a Radeon HD 5250 that has dual output. In a particular game that I'm playing, it's choppy even at the absolute lowest graphics settings and resolution. During that time, my second display is ...
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Windows 7 is unexplainably slow
I have a 3 month old Toshiba Satellite laptop with 4GB RAM, i5 processor and a normal HDD (not SSD).
I dual boot with Ubuntu and I use Windows sparingly. However, I noticed that it is painstakingly ...
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How to fix repair a 20GB windows directory
I found out my Windows 7 installation which is more than a year old has a bloated Windows (C:\Windows) directory (20GB). Correct me if i am wrong but i don't think this is normal. Is there a way i can ...
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slow down computer when i installing something
Every time I just go to the process of installing something (game or software, but game is more) my speed of computer goes down!
It's not important what I opened, it need much time to open. I have ...
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Bluray Burner suddenly disappeared from Windows and very slow boot
Very fast computer with raid 0 SSD's used to boot very quickly, but recently I tried to burn a disc but couldn't find the drive anywhere, device manager, show hidden devices, disk management, NO where ...
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How to diagnose reason of blocking in fltmgr.sys (HDD access slow) in Windows 7?
My Windows 7 PC is blocking quite often for a couple of seconds up to half a minute or so. I tried to find the problem with the process monitor by filtering all system calls that take over 2 seconds ...
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Computer running very slow after new RAM installed
Operating system: Windows 7 32-bit (i'm aware of the 4gb RAM restriction here)
Display Adaptor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 vram 1gb
Processor: AMD Phenom(tm)IIX4 965
HDD: Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 ATA ...
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FPS dips periodically when playing games
Certain graphically intensive games I play tend to exhibit stuttering on my computer, and I don't know why.
The stuttering is usually in the form of FPS "dipping" for a fraction of a second, to a ...
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System halts for a fraction of second after every 2-3 seconds
I'm using Windows 7 on my HP ProBook 4250s. The problem I face is that my system halts for a fraction of second after every 2-3 seconds. These jerks are not letting me concentrate or work properly. ...
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Windows 7 64-bit Random Slowdown when developing C/C++ Applications (any IDE or Compiler), Installing or Searching for WIndows Updates, etc
I originally posted this on stack overflow and realised that it was OT for there. I hope it is not an OT here as well.
My problem first started when I was using an Open Source C/C++ Library called ...
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Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? [closed]
A few people have done benchmarks comparing Windows 8 to Windows 7. Many features don't improve, but consistently, startup time is better.
Why does Windows 8 start up faster compared to Windows 7? ...
