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Why are start-up times faster on Windows 7 than on XP? [closed]
Reading a hotter question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? There is a great answer there by ClickUpvote, which shows some design differences that makes 8 faster:
Difference between win7 ...
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Chrome becomes very slow when switching tabs
During a heavy browsing session, Chrome can become very slow to switch to a tab that hasn't been opened in a while. I assume that it's switched the contents to disk and needs to reload it, but it can ...
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Why does my guest virtual machine keep freezing?
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In the past when my guest VM froze, I looked at windows task manager and saw very little ram. This led me to conclude "the host put the VM out of physical memory and into virtual memory (...
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Slow computer processing
I run a 1.66 Ghz Duo Core with 512 RAM. I had rebuilt my OS about a month ago, started it as Windows XP SP2. then I updated it to Windows XP SP3 and installed all the latest updates about 90 of them. ...
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Can dual monitors make my PC slower?
I've noticed my PC (win-xp) seems to be running slower. (e.g., I'm getting jitter when watching video)
Recently, I upgraded a monitor (larger) and expanded the size of the desktop to take advantage ...
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if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows?
if we do not use any wallpaper on desktop will it increase performance of windows?
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Why is my browser using so much memory?
I've recently had problems with Firefox running very slowly when I have many tabs open; say 20 tabs. My whole system would slow down.
I decided to give Google Chrome a try, and it started out fine. ...
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Setting process priority everytime it is launched?
My work computer experiences a lot of slowdown, so I want to do what I can to make sure the stuff I need to be response actually is responsive. For example, I run Pidgin, which loads everytime I boot....
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VMWare Player - increase 3D performance on XP guest
Ive set up a Windows XP (SP2) Guest machine.
I want to use it to play some old games. But here is the problem:
3D works baaaaaad. Most of the time I get only one to five fps.
And this in games created ...
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Does changing Windows XP theme to classic enhance performance?
A lot of my colleagues and friends who are still using Windows XP use the Windows Classic theme (i.e. the Win98-like theme, unlike the XP theme). Some of them just like it, but some others say that ...
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Speed Up Windows - Disable Services
In 2007 to 2009 there was an amazing peace of software for windows xp (but it worked perfectly for windows 7 as well) that used to display all the services running on a computer, what it was for and ...
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Product or method that will allow me to schedule all heavy background tasks (updates, scans, etc)?
So, frequently I notice my computer is running like a dog and check task manager to find out that google desktop is indexing, virus scan is running, windows update is downloading stuff, other programs ...
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Slow Browsing/Direct Download, but Fast Bittorrent Download
I'm using Windows XP SP2. I have a 1 MB connection via a SpeedTouch 585, and my internet speed registers at 0.3 MB, with a maximum download of 30kbps. Not to mention a terrible ping at 500-1500. On ...
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Is 1GB RAM so little?
I recently upgraded my old computer from Windows XP to Windows 7, and my computer became unbelievably slow. This is the hardware:
Intel Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz
1GB RAM
Radeon X800 GTO
By unbelievably ...
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Screen flicker -> Severe System Slowdown?
I'm using a Dell D830 laptop, and over the last few weeks it's been developing a very irritating screen flicker problem that leads to the system slowing down almost to the point of unusability.
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