Windows Performance

Correlation between number of programs installed and performan
Not able to comment on NAV 2009, but anything described as an "Internet Security Suite" is, in my experience, bound to be a source of trouble. This doesn't only apply to Norton, but NIS and 360 are definitely ones to avoid. Sadly, many of the alternative offerings are now sprouting Internet filters, content ... 25 Jan 2010 17:23

Set program access and defaults
Using XP Prof SP3, I have IE8 and Firefox 3.5.7 on board. The "set program access and defaults" appears to accept my instructions to make IE8 my default browser, but immediately defaults back to Firefox, even if I tell it not to enable access to Firefox. The effect is the same at Custom or Microsoft settings, s... 23 Jan 2010 07:40

What do commercial 'performance cleanup tools' really do?
My PC has been running slower over time, and I'd like to take non-drastic action to restore the speed as much as I can. I've already run a registry cleaner, defragmented the disk, and uninstalled a few programs that I never/rarely used. So what else is there? What else can I do? I see these ads for products tha... 22 Jan 2010 21:58

audio device on a dell inspiron 6000
When i try to adjust the volume it say that i have no audio device. I know that the speakers work because there is sound when I turn the laptop on and windows is starting up. what can I do to correct the problem?? ... 22 Jan 2010 23:03

Windows xP cleanup (slow running)
Trying to improve performance of WinXP Home system running on a 900mHz, 128 Meg, 20 gig drive system. The system runs slow and requires 35 seconds to open the FireFox WebBrowser. The page file (virtual memory) is about 250 Megs. Sometimes, I get a message the page file is too small. The disk has been defragmen... 9 Feb 2010 16:19

Correlation between number of programs installed and performance?
Please note that switching from a 40GB hard drive to an 80GB hard drive does not affect the performance of a computer in any way that you can measure. If you noticed increased performance after adding the new hard drive, it was caused by something else. The speed of a computer depends on many things, including... 19 Jan 2010 19:14

Correlation between number of programs installed and performance ?
Hi, I was having a lot of performance problems on my computer. I have a DELL desktop with a 2GHz Intel Pentium, with 512MB of RAM and an 80 GB hard drive. Previously I had a 40GB hard drive on which my computer was showing really bad performance. When it went bust, I bought a new hard drive and installed it i... 20 Jan 2010 16:20

"0x73dd11c7" referenced memory at "0x000000004"
Hi All, I have windows xp, SP2 installed in my system and I have cognos ver.5 user version installed on the same. Every time i try to run a report on cognos for the first time I get the following error: The instruction at "0x73dd11c7" referenced memory at "0x000000004". The memory could not be "read". Af... 19 Jan 2010 10:10

Strange Defrag Reports
I assume that if I could identify a hopelessly fragmented file, I could just delete it, but none are identified. Can anyone advise me as to why this is happening and what I can do to fix it? Here is the report: Defragmentation is complete for: (C:) Some files on this volume could not be defragmented. Please ch... 19 Jan 2010 01:26

Is it safe to delete the SID with .bak in the Profilelist?
Due to an incompleted system restore, the account I log in does not open the right account. I fixed it by changing the username path in ProfileImagePath value in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows NT \CurrentVersion \ ProfileList. The correct account is restored. I have renamed the username.ba... 18 Jan 2010 15:26