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  1. Gr0MMMMM

    PC slow, loading, not responding

    Hello, I bought a prebuilt pc like 3 years ago and it wasnt anything that good, just little bit under normal gaming pc. This year I decided to upgrade my cpu for a better one because of the bottleneck. With the cpu I also bought a new motherboard because the motherboard in the prebuilt pc was...
  2. Leemohh

    PC Skips / Mouse goes in different position intermittently

    Hello, I am running a RTX 3070, with 32gb Ram, And an Intel I7-10700kf i believe. With a 144hz monitor through Display Port. Wireless Logitech Mouse. A couple weeks ago, suddenly one day my PC was running extremely slow, Nothing seemed to fix it. I did a fresh install of windows, updated all...
  3. H

    Windows 10 usb installation boots very slow as I try to fresh install Lenovo Ideapad 110 laptop

    The laptop had initially issue with automatic repairing of the operating system. When the user attempted to power on and off multiple times, it went in to black screen error missing boot media. After a small tweak on the bios, now it finds the booting operating system but unable to successfully...
  4. C

    ASUS ROG G56JK extremely long POST time, weird sounds from optical drive

    Hello ! My ASUS laptop developed a very strange and annoying problem for the last couple of months. When I start the laptop from a cold boot it takes a very long time ( raging between 5 to 15 mins ) to actually get to the Windows loading. I know when I first start to boot a pc it does it's...
  5. mattzor

    Solved Computer has suddenly started to under perform.

    I've seen this question appear frequently on here but I have to ask. I shall try to stay updated. I got my PC in 2017 and games ran as expected. Nowadays when i play games it will start to lag mid game and sometimes right in the start. I remember playing overwatch capped at 70fps no drops. I ran...
  6. J

    Unsolvable "ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" Problem...?

    In all my years of owning a computer and browsing the internet, this has been the most persistent, confusing, and unbelievably frustrating problem I have ever encountered. I have never experienced anything like this, and I have never had such profound difficulty diagnosing a computer problem...
  7. T

    Solved Windows 7 Ultimate

    Hi, im having problem with my laptop ACER aspire 4740. the system run very slow and I think I want to reformat the system application. anyone can assist?
  8. roger hawke

    Solved Win7 Startup

    When I switch on PC I get to the desktop in approx. 50-55seconds. I then have to wait about a minute or so for the Internet icon in system tray to show internet access. Why does it take so long? Is it possible to speed this up?
  9. C

    Why is new laptop slower than old one?

    So if any of you remember my last posts, my laptop died so I decided to buy a new one. I got this now One that broke (except mine was 1366x768 resolution). Pretty much the only differences between them is: Dell - Touchscreen 2 in 1 - Back-lit keyboard - 1920x1080 - 256GB SSD Asus -1366x768...
  10. Allan.T

    Solved Speeding up my P.C?

    Hi, Some may know I'm looking into getting new parts for my PC, whilst I'm waiting for that to happen, I'm wondering if there is anyway to speed up my PC on the software side of things, and I don't mean putting it on wheels and pushing it down the hill haha. I enjoy my games, and my games...
  11. Brandon Byrnes

    Slow download speed

    Hello everyone hopefully you can help me with this problem. I just switched to AT&T U-Verse from Spectrum. With Spectrum I had consistent download speeds of about 4-6 mbps, but with U-Verse its all over the place. But on average i'm only getting about 400 kbps and sometimes slower, in the double...
  12. slonslon7

    Solved Malware help

    Hello. I've been having some malware issues. Have scanned with a host of AM and AV, removed some items but some issues persist: -Some kind of DNS hijacker (RogueKiller finds DHCPnameserver) but it keeps coming back. In chrome before visiting any site it says "waiting for xxx.freddysrentals.xxx"...
  13. Řízkomač

    Closed/Inactive win32cldefender.exe or old - making processors work on 99% - 100%

    Good day, so recently I have been having trouble with my new notebook from Dell. It works fine...except there is a problem with some program. This "old" program (it's called like that in the Task Manager) or win32cldefender.exe (that's how it is called in it's file, which is located in my...
  14. darragh

    Internet is fine on laptop, but slow on new PC

    So after a lot of blood, sweat and tears I finally managed to get my PC up and going. For some reason, it didn't have wi-fi so I just used an ethernet connection. The ethernet connection worked fine, and I was getting my usual 300-500 kbps (not much, but it's all we have in the middle of...
  15. S

    Solved Major ping issues in online games, no noticeable issues with internet otherwise

    Hello there, Over the weekend my connection to online games dropped dramatically. Everything else (youtube, downloads, streams, webpages, etc.) works just as it used to. So far I have tried Updating drivers Clearing cookies/cache Giving said games exceptions through my firewall Closing other...
  16. F

    PC slow - Disk usage on 99%

    Windows 10, everything was working fine for me since the day Windows 10 was released. However in the last 3 days, my PC became extremely slow. 3 days before, I noticed that the PC became too slow that sometimes it started freezing. However after 2-3 hours it started working normally so I...
  17. Prinny

    Solved Computer freezes up

    Not even sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/5hormh/computer_basically_freezes_after_login/?st=iwk92xww&sh=ba35605f Here I am What started out as annoying game crashing has somehow escalated into this. I don't know how/if I...
  18. H

    Solved Laptop is running really slowly

    So I have had a my laptop for about 4 years, stopped using it for a while and now it has become incredibly slow. It takes it about a minute to open up google chrome and then ages to load up a webpage while the Internet is running fine on other devices. My fps in games has also significantly...
  19. C

    Booting up windows 7 after 1 year. Everything is unusuably slow

    After one year I'm trying to boot my windows 7 computer, and I run into issues I never had (NO issues back in September 2015): The login screen freezes as soon as a key is pressed on the login screen. Mouse is still movable. Wait 10 minutes and the computer is reacting again. Enter password...