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Windows 7 laptop extremely slow (HDD)

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Hey
The pc in question is an Acer Aspire 8940G, a pretty beefy 18,4" laptop. (not mine)

Intel i7 720QM 1,6GHz
4GB RAM
Nvidia GT240M

Symptoms
Ive just done a clean install of win 7 64bit.
It was slow before the reinstall too, but was also getting hot, and i thought that was the culprit, so ive taken it apart and cleaned out the carpet of dust in the heatsink. Temps are now good.
But its still slow at everything, booting, opening programs, and installing things.
In resmon it shows 100% disk usage close to all the time still its only using maybe max 2-3MB/s.
Response time for disk can reach 13 SECONDS, but is mostly at 4-5 for the top programs.
Opening programs like chrome sometimes generates up to 100 hard faults /s, and memory usage is pretty stable at about 15-20%.
Ive not installed all windows updates yet becasue some of the updates takes up to 20mins to install upon shutdown and it hangs all the time in windows.
The originall install got some user account file error or something so it couldnt log into the only user in normal mode, but worked in safe mode.

Things ive done:
1. Installed drivers from acers website. All from 2009 though. Tried windows update drivers too.
2. The laptop has 2 500GB hdds, one originally designed to use as a backup drive i think. Formatted the 2nd one and cloned the boot drive over too it and tried booting of that too, but its still slow.
3. Ran chkdsk /f /r from windows RE. I think it cleaned up some sectors, but nothing much.
4. sfc /scanonce
5. Done a full scan with malwarebytes in safe mode, nothing found
6. Disabled indexing
7. Done a thorough scan with the DiskHealth (GSmartControl) tool in PartedMagic enviroment. Reported no errors. However the error log shows a count of 6277 both before and after the test. Disk uptime is 670ish days. Im 100% sure i saved the log but its disappeard??

Solution
8. Installed win 7 64 bit on an old one i was using as external hdd. Seems to work ok now. Installing chipset drivers was now done in a few seconds instead of minutes, and everything responds normally.

Question
If the hdd was so destroyed (both of them i guess?), why wasnt this discovered by any of the tools?
Will buying a new hdd solve this in the long run?

Windows Explorer will not open

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Windows Explorer will not open. Any tips to solve this please?
:banghead:

Start up repair cannot repair this computer automatically

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A friend of my parents went away a week before christmas, he shut down his windows 7 computer before he left and it wasn't touched until yesterday when he got home.

Upon trying to boot the computer it said that windows could not start up normally and gave him the option to either repair windows now or start windows normally.

Neither of these options actually work, if you try to start it normally the computer simply reboots it's self and you're brought back to the same screen, if you say to repair it ends up telling you it can't be repair automatically.

I looked at the details and under 07 it says the corruptvolume and if you disable the auto reboot the blue screen of death informs gives you a 0x0000007B error code.

It will not boot into safe mode, the repair doesn't work and I'm unsure how to continue without a boot disc, any suggestions? thoughts?

JBL Flip 2

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Trying to connect to JBL Flip 2 thru HP laptop. Keep getting message to make sure BT radio is turned on. Can't find BT radio to turn on so speaker works.

Win7 Resume from Hibernation

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Recently I have been having a problem with Windows7 resuming from Hibernation.

The problem manifest itself as a long delays after logging in, these delays are as if something is running in background except that they completely freeze the system, you can't run Task Manager or do anything until it is done.

It is worth noting that I have been using hibernation for years and until recently this was very quick. My conspiracy theory is that this is yet another thing that M$ has crippled to force us to move to Win10. Well I tried Win10 and I do not like it, it is slower and offers no tangible benefit to me.

In the old days you sometimes had crashes when things used hardware interrupts, this is similar, not only does it lock up the whole system but when the windows sound plays after lockin it is superslow and lasts a while, but eventually the system does come back to life.

My feeling was that it is either a fault on my hard disk (which is not making any strange noises and has been running like this for a few months) or there was some OS util running.

So what I am after is some suggestions and perhaps if anyone can tell me if there is some sort of log I can inspect for clues.

I tried running performance manager then hibernating, then resuming, it does not register on the graph the system spiking as if there was an App hogging the CPU or memory.

I tried defragging the disk and it said it was 99.99% optimal.

I tried leaving resource manager running then hibernating, then resuming, it also did not register anything hogging.

I could clone the parition and restore to another drive then see if it does the same but hard disk would not be identical so would expect some difference.

I have tested for viruses and rootkits, can't seem to find any.

So for now I am keen to see any logs that I could examine.

Any other ideas welcome.

CPU 100% Usage

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Windows 7 Professional
Compaq PC 3.00 GB DDR RAM (yes, it is an old computer)
AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8 HGz

I have recently added new DDR RAM to my computer to try to improve the performance of my PC (it was only 1.5GB). However, this does not appear to have made any difference. When I open a browser (IE) the computer appears to lock up for up to a minute. When the computer slowed to a halt, using the performance manager I obtained the following readings:

CPU Usage 100%, Memory 1.20 GB, System Idle Process 75 - 90 (the remaining running processes were less than 10). I was showing "processes for all users".

I do not understand why there is 100% CPU usage (which would explain the apparent halt) when the individual non-idle processes are so low.

Any help in speeding up my computer and preventing this problem would be much appreciated.

Ken

Component Relationships

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Hi everybody :

First......just want to wish everyone a Happy....and safe New Year's celebration.
Is there a relation between the speed of memory chips and an Operating System ? Some boards state that they will accept DDR4 XXXX chips......which is supposed to be a fast memory chip. Not leaving out the "CPU Factor ".
Thanks,
garystan

Dual boot problem

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Have a pc with XP set up as raid mirroring.

I wanted to install Win 7 in one of the drives. I changed both drive as non-raid with ctrl-i
Before installing win7 I tried to repair one of the xp drive that I wanted to keep as dual boot but was not able to. I decided to install win7 on one of the drives keeping the bios as raid. I`m trying to use the second xp drive as dual boot but get error system32/ntoskrnl.exe missing when booting to xp.
When I try to boot directly from the xp drive it gets stuck just before the logon screen. Tried changing bios to IDE but was not able to fix xp

Startup Repair Loop, NoRootCause

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Hey Guys,

Have a friend that has given me their PC to fix. It's running Win7 HP 64 bit and is stuck in a Startup Repair Loop. None of the Safe Mode options boot, neither does the Last Known Good Configuration option.

I have tried using a Win7 HP disc to repair Windows, run a chkdsk on the OS drive, scanned the drive for any viruses with and AVG rescue disc. I have also removed the rive and plugged it externally to a working PC and found all files to be intact, or so it would seem.

I have read a couple of forums and tried a few other things like this >> Startup Repair Infinite Loop Recovery - Windows 7 Help Forums which still does not work.

Unfortunately no restore points were created and I do not have access to replace all of the programs & games that my friend has installed.

Does anyone know of any other options?

This is the only information I get from the system after the failed Startup Repair.

Problem Event Name: StartupRepairOffline
Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 02: 6.1.7600.16385
Problem Signature 03: Unknown
Problem Signature 04: 21199410
Problem Signature 05: AutoFailover
Problem Signature 06: 30
Problem Signature 07: NoRootCause
OSVersion: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

I have noted that Problem Signature 6, increase each time the Startup Repair fails.

Any advice would be helpful and appreciated.

Thanks,
Alexx

Unknown files

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In my documents folder I have a folder called Notes. Inside that folder are the following files:

Dotted_Line.jtp
Genko_1.jtp
Genko_2.jtp
Graph.jtp
Memo.jtp
Month_Calendar.jtp
Music.jtp
0Seyes.jtp
Shorthand.jtp
To_Do_List.jtp

If I double-click on any one of these files, it opens up some kind of graphics program. Does anyone know the purpose of these files. I have no idea where they came from.

Alienware m17x r4 recovery issue

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Hi guys,

Im having a little trouble with recovering my alienware laptop. Here are the details:

I bought it with windows 7 on it and when the free upgrade came out for windows i thought i would give it a try knowing that this model wasnt tested for it. While i like that OS, everytime i get a windows 10 update it upsets either my USB connectivity or my sound drivers. Only way i can get around it is keep reinstalling windows 8.1 drivers.

This has gotten extremely annoying. So i then backed everything up and proceeded to do a factory recovery. However it seems like that windows 10 has taken over and even though i went through all the correct motions, the recovery screen was windows 10 and the laptop was recovered to a bog standard windows 10 install with ALL device drivers installed and working correctly minus the preloaded alienware software like alien command and respawn.

Now from what i have gathered, windows 10 removes all your old windows files from the computer after a month (which it has been), however i did do a complete fresh install (though i left the recovery partition intact incase i didnt like it).

I am by no mean a novice with computers but i have spent the last couple of years in a field that has nothing to do with computers so my knowledge isnt as recent. Im not too sure if this is best in this sub forum or the windows 10, so apologies up front.

Look forward to some fresh knowledge and learning :)

thanks guys,

Steel

Bluetooth headphone audio skipping

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I own a macbook pro and runs windows 7 by bootcamp. The headphone is JBL e40bt.
I tried to use my bluetooth headphone it had always failed and it said there was no driver for "bluetooth peripheral device."
I then downloaded the ASUS driver thing from here: Can't find drivers for bluetooth headset - Windows 7 Help Forums
And the problem was solved.

But now when I connect my headphone, it is only good immediately after I connect it. As long as I play something continuously the headphone won't switch off by itself and nothing's wrong. But if there's no audio input from the computer to the headphone for like a minute and then I start playing music, the audio is skipped. I have to reconnect the device for it to return normal.

Please help me. It is quite annoying. It's okay if I am playing games and stuff but I when I'm playing music I can't let it stop.

New PC and Some Advice wanted with 2nd HDD

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I just gave in and finally Bought a Dell XPS 8300 with Windows 7 Ultimate, 12 GB of RAM, & A NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Video Card. Just wanted to get some info about it for you so you can help me out. So far this thing is Bad *** and I have not one complaint's I have been enjoying watching 4K Videos lol.

How ever...
My problem is, I took the old 500 GB Hard Drive from my old Dell Inspiron 531 and I wanted to use it in this new PC as a 2nd Drive so I would have 1000 GB or just 2 500 HDD's and was hoping all I had to do was Plug it in and then I could Transfer everything I had on my old 531 PC onto this new P. But when I plugged the HDD in and turn the Computer on it doesn't show up in Disk Management anywhere. I Followed all kinds of steps and Cannot get the Hard Drive to show up.

I Wanna know how to get everything off the 2nd Hard drive and also use both HDD's because I also do allot of High Quality Video Editing and would be awesome to have both HDD's

Free Cell

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I am still using Windows 7. I have had two attempts at Windows 10 and am disappointed that Free Cell is not included. I know I can download other versions, but I want the one in Windows 7. Is there any way I can save it, and put in on Windows 10? :facepalm:

Switching from 32bit to 64bit

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I have downloaded my ISO image for my windows 7 license 64bit . I have a 32bit version installed on my HDD. Can I just upgrade and keep my existing software and data or would it be best if I formatted the HDD and stated over. I have a supermicro serverboard I am reinstalling into a tower and the HDD has the drivers for the board installed. I have the copy of the drivers and 90% of my software if I need it. I have never used a downloaded ISO Image and would appreciate some help. Thank you

Slow start, video problems +more

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Hello hello
My laptop has been acting up lately, please help me find the root of my problems! :wave:

Recently upon starting it up, I had to do 2-3 system recoveries for it to start.
Now it is starting up fine but it has a few problems every other startup:

-Slow start up+shutdown, 5 mins, sometimes up to 20 minutes.
-The programs that usually show up, don't. (Skype, Steam auto-update, Java updates...)
-No sound anywhere
-Videos load, and freeze.(sometimes play for 2 secs with no sound)
-Any video games will run very very very slowly
-Have to manually refresh through the desktop (e.g whenever I delete a file, it will still be there unless I refresh)

Everytime these things happen, it goes back to normal again after I restart my computer, sometimes i have to do so 2-3 times.


Thank you!

Startup Repair cannot repair this computer automatically.

How to watch a folder and copy certain files

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Hi All,

What I'm trying to achieve is this:

Watch a folder, including the subfolders, and whenever a file over a certain size appears, copy that automatically to a different location.

So for example, if the folder structure is C:\watch folder\sub folder1\File I want It will go to C:\Destination folder\File I want.

Is there an easy way to do this? Would also be good if it could be scheduled to only do this at night. I think this is fairly easy, it's only the subfolders part that might cause problems.

Thanks,
Dom

Factory reset Windows 7

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Hello! I have an old Dell Latitude D630 with Windows 7, I do not have the disk, and apparently the product key I got from NirSoft's ProduKey isn't valid. Is there any way to reset it?

Windows 7 Professional Stuck in Booting Loop, Can't Access Administrator Account

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Hey guys,

A friend of mine recently gave me an older gaming rig of his, because he isn't particularly computer savvy and didn't want to deal with the BSOD loop it's been stuck in.

I don't know much about the specs of this computer, other than the fact that it is custom built and running windows 7 professional.

I get a blue screen after the windows logo freezes on start up, and when accessing "advanced options for system recovery and support" to try and do a full system restore, I am met with the admin login page, and he doesn't remember his password himself. A stupid problem, I am aware.

Any chance I can get this to work out? Thanks for your time.
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