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I have 16GB of system RAM. On startup with no applications open except the task-manager Windows is using about 3gb of RAM. I looked in the processes tab, but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. How can I find out why my Windows is using so much RAM. all processes from all users…
Occasionally, I get part of an application lingering behind on my desktop: This is part of a context menu for an application. It is always top-most, meaning that it is always on the screen, and I cannot click on it (it just clicks through it). It has happened before, sometimes with whole windows. It remains…
I used to have an icon on the Windows Vista taskbar showing the battery amount remaining (laptop). It has mysteriously vanished. How can I get it back? I followed the Windows FAQ (see How can I hide the battery icon in the notification area? – hoping to reverse the instructions) but the Power checkbox on…
This is the Windows Vista problem, seen, I think, mostly on dual processor laptops, where % CPU suddenly shoots to about 45% and stays there. Once this has happened, % CPU will never return to normal on its own, though, curiously, "sleeping" the box for a few seconds will reset the condition. I’ve seen this…
Here is what happened… I dragged my Recycle bin from my desktop to my quick launch toolbar. I then deleted it from the quick launch toolbar. Next time I emptied my recycle bin, Poof… the recycle bin on my desktop disappeared. I thought deleting something may bring it back. No. I thought a restart…
What is the difference between Sleep and Hibernate in Windows Vista? Solution: Sleep is commonly known as Standby in Windows systems or S3 in ACPI. In Sleep mode, the power supply to non-essential and non-critical components is withheld, and most system operations are shutdown and stopped. All data in physical memory (RAM) is still kept…
My Vista 64 installation has drive C, a 150 GB hard drive. I also has a 1.5 TB drive D. My C drive has 12.3 GB free. I don’t know what’s using up all the space. There’s almost 83 GB unaccounted for!!! As per this question and this question, I downloaded WinDirStat and SpaceMonger. WinDirStat,…
My girlfriend bought a laptop last week. It’s a core 2 duo with 4 GB We installed vista 64bit, and one of the first things we did was right click on “My computer” to see gthe properties. Immediately we noticed something strange about her RAM, the line said:Installed memory (RAM): 4,00 GB (3,68 GB usable)…
I have a Sandisk Cruzer 16GB USB flash drive, but it started to show up as 16MB. And I can’t use it, it tells me that I need to format the drive or Please insert a disk into drive X. What software do I need to check the flash drive? I can’t format it since…
Can we edit bios properties from desktop? without going to bios like to set first boot device etc. Solution: Windows (your operating system) and your motherboard are entirely different things. The BIOS is integrated directly into the motherboard to act like a springboard (throwing master CPU control to the OS once it’s prepared the system)…
