Windows 7 very slow to startup and restore from hibernate
Question: My Windows 7 64 bit ultimate machine is extremely slow to restore from hibernation. ?It spends minutes on a black screen with a blinking cursor, longer than to restart.…
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Question: My Windows 7 64 bit ultimate machine is extremely slow to restore from hibernation. ?It spends minutes on a black screen with a blinking cursor, longer than to restart.…
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Question: I need to take a hard drive on a 3hr car drive tomorrow, and I don’t have any antistatic bags/bubblewrap. What’s the best way to pack an hard drive…
Question: I’m building a pc for my friend and want too know that if I can use a external Segate 1teap5-500 1tb as an internal hdd to install windows Refer…
Question: I booted up today and my disk hasn’t stopped thrashing in 20 minutes. ?CPU activity is flat; the only processes using anything right now are firefox and dwm.exe and…
Question: I just want to move my OS from my HDD to my new SSD. I know there are programs to move files over, but I don’t know if they…