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First experience with new SSD - slow, resource hog?
I just bought my very first internal SSD and installed it into my desktop PC. I was running out of disk space and want to use it for data storage. The OS is installed on the first disk, which is a ...
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Use a Flash Device for ReadyBoost with SSD
I have a rather old computer - an Asus Zenbook with just 4GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD.
Using Firefox, running a few tabs simultaneously, I sometimes get a notification telling me the system is running ...
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What will be the best to increase the speed of the computer i.e. RAM should be increased or SSD should be installed in the computer [closed]
I have Dell,i5 laptop 7th generation windows and I am a android developer and we know android studio requires a lot of memory. So, to increase the working speed of my computer what should be done. I ...
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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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Windows 7 and 10. Low on memory error
I have a laptop of about 8 years old. Recently I have changed its hard drive for a new SSD. After that, I installed Windows 7 because there is a notion that it would be faster if you have Win 7 ...
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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 ...
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Avira free using 1.45GB of memory on Win7, what can i do?
I have Windows 7. Resource Monitor says that explorer.exe is using 1.4GB and Avira is using 1.45GB. That's too much ram, I have 4GB total. Including Chrome and other processes I have less than 1GB ...
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Software or Hardware?
Hi guys i have a Server 2008 R2 thats a supermicro Duel Xeon 1366 box 12gb DDR3, that i use for file storage and WDS and little Vmware Workstation 12 stuff.. The issue am having
its loaded with 2 ...
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A dual and single channel memory [closed]
My question is in regards to potential laptop performance. Please forgive my ignorance in advance for most of this is quite new to me. I am wanting to upgrade the DDR3 ram in my laptop and also have ...
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Windows 7 Professional not recognising all installed RAM
My current set up is below
I bought this computer build from a 3rd party, they self built it. I reinstalled windows.
At the time I did not know about Home edition not recognizing all 24 GB ram. So ...
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Swapfiles on high-RAM and SSD systems
tl;dr 22GB RAM, SSD, pagefile, yes/no? Reduce mapped files reserved memory yes/no? how?
I am running Windows 7 on my work desktop. It has 22GB of physical RAM. I am running it with an SSD. The ...
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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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Do apps and Operating Systems constantly read/write from/to HDD?
I was debating with guys about necessity of SSD for me.
I'm Salesforce Developer. My tools are Eclipse, Firefox/Chrome, Git. Eclipse does only editing files, saving them locally and sends them to ...
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Would it make any sense or can I see any performance upgrade if I change my RAM from 4 to 8 GB, in the presence of SSD hardrive? [closed]
I have a laptop with Win64 bit system with intel i3 processor on a Sandy bridge platform. I have recently replaced my hard drive with a SSD. Now I am also thinking to upgrade my RAM from 4 to 8 GB, ...
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Something is eating my SSD space
I noticed that my 120GB SSD is almost full, but I have only 55GB data on it.
I ran Disk Analyzer and listed folders and files have around 55GB of data, and yet it says that I have only 4.4GB free ...
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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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