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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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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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Something is making pops and clicks in the background of my computer
I have a dedicated music computer. I am running sonar as the DAW. I do not usually use a microphone in, but, every time I do, I get pops and clicks. I have done all of the Windows adjustment, so that ...
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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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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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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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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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Is there a way to fixing my slow computer without SSD, Lightweight Linux. and RAM and CPU upgrade?
I start a my old acer veriton m420 computer. and now open chrome on windows 7 computer. it slow for 1 minutes. and then page unresponsive.
I have tried:
Uninstall unused programs. (AP)
Delete ...
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Laptop is much faster than my Desktop PC?
I have a macbook that's running windows 7, it's a 2015 macbook pro, it has an i5 4278U cpu, integrated graphics and 8gb of ddr3 RAM.
My desktop which is also running windows 7 has an i5 3570k, a GTX ...
