Core affinity
Ok I don't know if this has been answered in the past, I guess so but here goes. I play an old game : Quake3Arena which really doesn't like multi-core PC. I was on Windows XP before and I have been...
View ArticleDual Monitor + laptop monitor display problems
Hi;I have an IBM thinkpad, external monitors both similar. The thinkpad docking station only has 1 port to for a monitor so I got a splitter. My goal is to use the large monitors to display different...
View ArticleJava and swap
I thought I generally understood how Windows decides to swap pages, but I've been having issues with a Java program that causes my system to swap a lot even with low memory usage.One example is I have...
View ArticlePop up problem
Facts: IE 10; Win 7; Toshiba Satellite: I began receiving a lot of Adobe Flash Player pop ups saying I needed to up date. They were very intrusive. I went to Adobe site and asked question. I was told...
View ArticleMS fix for Explorer Crash
This fix was posted on Live Q&A by an MS person:I am part of the CEIP team at Microsoft and wanted to share how to fix the issue and share more information. Description: New machines installing...
View ArticleMy laptop overheats after playing games for 5 minutes!?
After about 5-10 minutes playing games, my laptop shuts down unexpectedly. It didn't use to do this, it just started to happen all of a sudden. Is my laptop overheating? It has been hotter than usual...
View Articlelightroom.exe-entry point not found
just purchased lightroom 4 installed it but when i go to open it i just get this message followed by a procedure entry point CreateIUriBuilder could not be located in the dynamic link library...
View ArticleOpening program for filextention difine by a script
Hello,i want to have a batch or powershell script which defines that TIF files are opend with a specified program. This should affect all users which are logged on the computer.I don't want to set it...
View Articleis there someone who can read my memory dmp file my computer crash when...
My computer crashes when I run flash (specifically nbc news videos) the more flash videos it loads the higher the chance of crash.Sometimes it crash with no flash video, but is usually when running...
View ArticleLogman -a not appending
I cannot get Logman -a to append a performance log file. A previous question at this forum on this topic had this last entry, which sounded like a solution:I was facing the same issue with overwrite...
View ArticleSlow Win 7 boot
Hello,since last Saturday, my Windows is booting slower than before: It stays at the "starting Windows" screen for ~20 seconds, before it succeeds to the login screen. The past 10 months it immediately...
View ArticleEvent Name: AppHangTransient Outlook crashing + hanging.
This happens to one of my users. She has been having problems with Outlook for a long time now.It crashes and sometimes we can't even launch it in Safe mode after it is done.At one point I ran through...
View ArticleBSOD error event log: 6008
I have an ASUS KV55M with 1 year, using 64-bit Windows 7. Lately it has been giving me some problems, namely completely shuting down with no apparent reason and having some BSOD. Checking the event...
View ArticleWINDOWS FILE TRANSFERS TO 8% AND DROPS DEAD
i am trying to transfer a file from on computer to another both one using windows 8 and the other using windows 8 pro but when the transfer reaches about 8% it drops dead and does nothing after that...
View ArticleSearchIndexer.exe taking up 15-20% CPU after indexing complete
Machine is a Dell Latitude E6400, 4GB RAM, Core2Duo P9600 2.66Ghz, Intel 160GB G2 SSD with TRIM firmware. All OS and Office service packs and hotfixes are installed. Rebuilt my machine about a month...
View ArticleWindows 7 takes 10 Minutes to shutdown
My Windows 7 machines are built through SCCM 2012 and use a fully patched Windows 7 .wim file.Here is the issue I am having. Everytime I go to reboot the machine or shut down it hangs for 10 minutes...
View ArticleBSOD 0x00000124 Please help.
I have been getting this for some time now and cannot find the root cause. Can someone please help me? System Specs:Motherboard: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO 790X AM3 CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition...
View ArticlePlugged in, Not Charging
I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 running windows 7 RC and recently developed this problem a couple of nights ago. On and off before that I would get the message, unplugged the AC power, plug it back in and...
View ArticleWindows 7 Pro Remote Desktop Suddenly Extremely SLOW After Installing...
Everything was fine with using Remote Desktop to connect to another computer via VPN. Then I installed SkyDrive on the computer. A few days later I tried to Remote Desktop into the same computer, and...
View ArticleBSOD problems due to RAM? Too many processes?
I've had the BSOD periodically over the last week and I have tried to replicate what software it may be and I can't see which one is causing it. I notice it most often when I'm playing an online game,...
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