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No input devices working after startup

It's a normal day. I start my PC and try to login and BAM. Both my keyboard and mouse are not working. The devices itself are working fine (I can see the lights and stuff) but Windows somehow doesnt ...
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Very high disk usage due to reading from CbsPersist...log

My personal laptop is Windows 7, Dell, 8 CPU Cores and 8GB of RAM. It operates very slowly, especially when launching software, and I think especially when starting up (but not only). Looking at ...
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Set disk I/O priorities in Win7 or only allow disk access to specific processes (via batch file)?

The former would be more elegant but the latter is also fine for my purposes (and probably the more errorproof solution). I capture 720p50-HDTV losslessly (ULH0/ULH2) and my archive-drive is fast ...
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Accumulate I/O for windows?

I have read about perfmon in Tracking disk I/O by application in Windows? However, I am looking for something that doesn't show the current byte/s rates, but the total amount as if you were running ...
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Force a process in Windows 7 to store capture in RAM without doing actual I/O operation and writing to the disk

I'm Using Wireshark's cyclic buffers configuration capturing mode: I am sniffing a 10Gig port, and I was expecting Wireshark to work cyclically with buffers on the DDR only, but apparently it doesn't....
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Find which process uses on average the most CPU, Memory and IO on Windows 7

I'd like a way to monitor processes on Windows 7 for average CPU, Memory and IO since last boot. I would love it if it was a nice UI friendly tool that could sort processes by Average CPU, Average ...
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Why does synchronizing 1.4 TB of data with my Dropbox account result in over 28 TB of IO read?

I tried to sync 4.4 millions of files (totaling ~1.4 TB) with my Dropbox account. I noticed a pretty high amount of IO read (28 TB) when the files were being synchronized, is there any reason why? My ...
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Why do subsequent reads of a multi-gigabyte file run faster?

I have some algorithm test software running on a Windows 7 machine which, when run the first time on any given data file, runs ~3-5x slower than on subsequent runs. Our algorithm simply reads the file ...
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Windows 7 printing "io" infinitely in all focused input areas

A few weeks ago, my computer started doing this strange behavior. All I did was click into a window that allowed for user input and the computer began printing "io" over and over again (no error, but ...
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Keep getting i/o error 1117 while trying the file operations

I am trying to copy a huge file (around 50 GB) to external hard drive. I keep getting the I/O error. I tried all things compressing the file, trying to copy to same drive splitting the file using ...
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High Disk I/O and CPU usage of System Process in "System Volume Information"

I've a problem with high disk IO and cpu usage from the system process. With the performance monitor I can see that it writes and reads about 100MB/s froM "System Volume Information". I tried to get ...
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Windows are unresponsive for a few seconds after boot (probably IO error with HDD)

When Windows is loaded and I am logged in into my desktop, the system gets unresponsive for about 10-15 seconds. During this time, the HDD led indicator at the case is either flashing or on (solid). ...
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Windows 7 keyboard input hangs while reading from usb hard drive [closed]

There is a strange behavior of windows 7. I like to listen to music while coding (surprising), so I always carry with me my usb storage and play music from it. Sometimes while playing a song it kind ...
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Why is System writing to disk and MsMpEng.exe reading?

Just a curiosity question. I just told Spotify to move its cache from one drive to another. When I now look at the Resource Monitor spotify.exe doesn't seem to be doing anything at all basically. ...
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How to limit disk usage (Write/I/O) by application? (NOT space usage)

I'm really annoyed by not being able to do a few jobs at a time even if I have plenty of RAM and CPU left to utilise - so it's the disk usage, for example when I am extracting big archives using ...
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