I’m looking at some new laptops, and I’m seeing the AMD Neo CPUs at 1.5GHz, and some of the new Intels at 1.3-1.8GHz. The laptops they are on come well supplied in terms of RAM (up to 8GB) and Video Cards (ATI’s with 2GB shared memory). My question is, how do these laptops perform running…

I’ve had a few computers of my own break after a few years of use, and I’ve seen computers owned by friends and family do the same thing.  They either slow down (even running the original software they shipped with) or crash more often (kernel panic/BSOD, freezing, etc).  All computers eventually fail, and not always…

Why, for example, would a 2.66 GHz dual-core Core i5 be faster than a 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo, which is also dual-core? Is this because of newer instructions that can process information in fewer clock cycles? What other architectural changes are involved?   This question comes up often and the answers are usually the…

From what I understand, USB flash drives and solid-state drives (SSDs) are based on similar technologies, NAND flash memory. But, USB flash drives are usually quite slow, with a read and write speed of 10-25 MB per second, while SSDs are usually very fast, about 200-600 MB per second. Why are SSDs so much faster…

I have a relatively new (under 2 yrs old) Windows 7 machine. It has 9GB of RAM, and an i7 core CPU (930 @ 2.8GHz w/ 8 CPUs). After about 8 months since a clean install, I noticed my computer was running slowly. I figure it was fragmentation etc, and I did a complete wipe…

There may not be a solution for this, but at the very least I’d like a bit more understanding of what’s going on. When my work (work, XP) laptop comes out of hibernation, it takes an excruciatingly long time to recover. The hard drive light is solidly on, so I’m sure it’s just restoring the…

I have windows 10 enterprizes. i know that there is no way to stop windows 10 update. but we can only stop it from downloading updates by using registry and group policy. but it still takes too much of internet to check for updateson my computer i don`t want to update it because i use…

On my second hard drive there’s this folder: D:73dca78350f1e7f756d03ee8 It contains two sub folders – “amd64” and “i386”. After re-installing Windows XP I can no longer access these folders. I just get “Access denied”. These are the only two folders on the disk that I can’t access. How can I regain control of these two…

I recently upgraded my workstation from XP SP3 to Vista Business, and during the upgrade Windows moved my old C:Windows directory to C:Windows.old.  I got all of the stuff I needed out of that folder, but there are six “undeletable” files there so I cannot remove it.  They are: Windows.oldProgram1AdobeReader 9.0ResourceCMapIdentity-HWindows.oldProgram1AdobeReader 9.0ResourceCMapIdentity-VWindows.oldProgram1Common FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelper.dllWindows.oldProgram1Common FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroIEHelperShim.dllWindows.oldProgram1Common FilesAdobeAcrobatActiveXAcroPDF.dllWindows.oldProgram1Common…

I have an external hard drive that was used as a Windows partition before, but now I want to use it for storage instead. I have added it to my Windows 7 machine, but I am not allowed to write or delete serveral of the files and folders on the disk. I get the error…