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Hard drive showing incorrect free space after recent RAM upgrade
After recently upgrading my ram from 8GB to 16GB I noticed that my hard drive went from ~22GB to ~8GB (120GB ssd) even though all of files on the drive only accumulate to 72GB. I have tried numerous ...
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Computer doesn't get further than motherboard screen after installing new ram?
I just go new Kingston Hyper Beast DDR3 8x2GB kit in the door, but when I install them into my board, either my monitor doesn't react at all, or I get the motherboard screen which causes a restart and ...
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Upgraded computer, now it turns off randomly / won't turn on
I have recently upgraded my computer and now it turns off at random times. Sometimes I'll be on all day and there will be no problem. Sometimes it'll be a couple hours and it will shut off. And ...
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Force Windows 7 to unload items from memory (not Superfetch)
The question is how to force Windows 7 to REMOVE items from my RAM when they are no longer in use.
Because this question is met with 100% resistance I'm going to clarify this once...
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Upgrading my E2-3200 Desktop with RAM and SSD
Overnight (literally), I "lost" home use of a pair of i5 / 8GB / Win 8.1 Laptops (Lenovo and Asus) I used for home development.
I use Visual Studio 2013 and Sql Server. Besides that I surf the web. I'...
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What is causing computer to lag? Older machine, SSD, Win7
I just upgraded an old Dell Vostro 1400 from XP to Win 7 64-bit, and it's running much slower than I anticipated. Can anyone help me with ideas why this would be the case? Here are the details:
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Custom built PC slowly freezes up [closed]
So this is probably one of the weirdest PC issues I have ever experienced. I built my PC in the winter of 2011, so about 1.5 years ago. Here are the stats:
ASUS P8P67 (REV 3.1) LGA 1155 Intel P67 ...
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Fancycache + HDD vs SSD
My girlfriend's three years old Sony Vaio laptop is getting really slow so I will perform a clean Win7 install on it in a couple of weeks. While at it, I'm considering getting her to upgrade a ...
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My computer is very slow when swapping between applications
Sometimes my computer is very low. Especially when I have 2 or 3 applications opened at the same time. I noticed when I switch from one application to another, the computer need to read on disk and it ...
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large memory: wakeup slower than boot
I've upgraded my Windows 7 machine to 24GB.
As described here, I found out that 24GB of my precious C: SSD were taken for swap file. To solve this, I moved the swap file to my 2TB non SSD E: drive.
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