If I uninstall programs, would this make my computer run faster?
It wont make your computer run faster necessarily. Technically what slows down your computer is not usually what is stored on the hard drive but what programs are running in the background. Upon booting up your computer, the operating system starts running programs that are placed in the startup. Some are necessary to keep and others can be "disabled" so that the unnecessary processes don't eat your available resources (memory) and slow down the computer. To check your startup you can click Start, then in the run box type in "msconfig". Once there make your way to the startup tab at the top and take a look at what is in there. If you see things that are not necessary you may disable them and this might help with the speed. To top things off, I would also recommend that you do a disk defrag which will help as well.
How do you install a program when the computer says that it's already installed?
I'm trying to install a program called Solidworks (it's for technical designing) but every time the installation process is about to finish, I get an error which says that the program is already installed, and asks whether I want to uninstall the program. Here's what I do before I get the error: 1. Download the zip-file and unzip it. 2. Open the first file and start the installation process (which consists of four files, after the first is done it automatically goes on to the second one, and so forth). 3. My antivirus asks me if I want to allow Solidworks to make changes to my computer, and I click yes. 4. I get a pop-up box that contains the following message: "SOLIDWORKS is already installed. Do you want to uninstall SOLIDWORKS now?" 5a: I click no and the entire process stops. 5b: I click yes and I get an error that they can't find the program on my computer, thus they can't uninstall it. What I tried to fix this: 1. Remove Solidworks from my computer through Control Panel --> Add/Remove programmes. The first time I did this, I saw that for some reason, Solidworks was indeed already installed, and I removed it. - Install it again, but the same error appears. 2. Find out if there's anything of Solidworks left on the computer, through the Search-bar. The only files left are the installation files. To start over completely, I delete them from my computer (also from Recycle Bin) and download them again. - Install again, but the same error appears. 3. Download CCleaner and clean out my laptop. I also check in the control panel and the search bar for any other SW-files; the installation files are the only ones on the computer, so my computer should be clean by now. - Install again, but the same error appears. 4. Finally, run a Check Disk by shutting down my computer and starting it up again. Wait for an hour or so while the computer is on blackscreen, checking the disk. Then log on to Windows. - Install again, but the same error appears. It seems like I tried everything, but nothing seems to work!! It's really frustrating. Does anyone know what to do?
How do I uninstall a program that won't uninstall?
"This action can't be completed because it is being used..." means exactly that. It's running so it can't be deleted until it's shut down. Right click an empty area near the clock and select Task Manager. At the top of Task Manager one of the tabs will be Processes. Find the program that's using it (the original program you installed which installed this thing as an extra - it will be obviously named), click to highlight it, and click the End Process button at the bottom of the Task Manager window. A prompt will show up, read it if you want, but click Yes. Make sure that process doesn't automatically re-appear. If it does re-appear that means it started running again. You'll also have to do this for the Search Protect program if you see it in the task manager and keep doing it if they re-appear until they stop. Once you get them to stop running you can go to control panel > add remove programs and uninstall. There are several ways to stop a program from running. This is the first trial step. If you can't get it to stop running go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management and in there you will find the same sort of list you see in Task manager with options to start and stop it (by right clicking on the process). That is supposedly the more advanced way of doing it. Another way is going to Start > Run and type regedit A program will open. In the Edit menu at the top of that program's window you'll see a Find feature. Type in the name of the program or process name in task manager and delete every instance of it you can find. Then you can uninstall it. Keep hitting F3 to "find next" until it stops at something and press the delete key on your keyboard to delete it. The above is the Registry Editor. If you accidentally delete something the computer needs to run in RegEdit it will reinstall it self to the registry so it can run the next time you restart the computer. You can not cause irreversible damage by deleting that stuff (they're called keys) from the registry. I've dumped entire registry's and they came back after a restart but I would not suggest doing that. I did it on a fresh install of XP, there may be things you have installed that dumping the entire registry might not recover from and re-install on a reboot automatically.
My laptop is taking too much time when I start and shut it down. What should I do?
Long story short, move all your personal data from drive C partition to any other partition.Reinstall windows, while installing windows make sure to format C drive. To know which partition was C partition, make sure to check how much storage C partition contains and how much is left in C partition before reinstalling windows. This will help you in choosing which partition to format. ONLY FORMAT C PARTITION ELSE YOU’LL LOSE YOUR DATA IN OTHER PARTITIONS.Reinstalling windows should 100% solve every software issue on your laptop. If the issue still persists, its a hardware issue … take it to a professional.
How do you restart a dell laptop LATITUDE D630?
Hello imso, My name is Krishna and I work for the Social Media and Community Team at Dell. To restart a computer, click the "Start" button (in Windows XP) or "Windows" button (in Windows 7) on the lower left corner of your screen. In the window that pops up, select the small arrow on the bottom right corner. Click "Restart." Your computer will immediately close all open programs, shut down and restart. If you are having difficulties shutting down applications and processes, you can force your Windows PC to restart. Go to the "Start" button and click "Run." Enter "shutdown -r -t 1 --f" and Windows will complete the shut down process and restart without waiting for programs to close. Hope this helps. Regards, Dell-Kris K Dell Social Media and Communities Edit: Hello imso, Sorry about the confusion. If your restore partition is intact, you should be able to restore your computer's software back to factory settings without using any disks. You can follow the instructions from http://support.dell.com/support/topics/g... Let me know if you need more information. Regards, Dell-Kris K Dell Social Media and Communities
My laptop isn't Shutting Down. What should I do?
This problem happened to me, and a hard reset fixed it. Simply hold down your power button until it turns off. If this doesn’t work for some reason, unplug it and take out the battery (I’m assuming your laptop has one).Hope this helps!
I can't uninstall Windows 7 Update KB2952664!?
Well Gordo, I don't profess to know more about the update process than the dipsticks at Microsoft but please remember they are the ones that gave us Windows Vista and the absolutely wonderful(crappy) Windows 8/8.1. I will say that you can try the following and see if it helps. 1)Click "Start Button" 2)Click "Control Panel" 3)Click "System and Security" 4)Under "Windows Update" select "Turn automatic updating on or off" 5)Under "Important updates" click on the drop down 6)Select "Check for updates but let me choose to download and install them" 7)Under the other four categories make sure that you check the boxes 8) At the bottom of the screen click "OK" 9)Close the "Control Panel" This should prevent the offending update, KB2952664, from reinstalling itself when you restart the computer. Like I mentioned earlier I don't know more than MS Support but then again I did NOT ask anyone to upgrade to Win 8. Also keep in mind that this will mean that you will have to manually download/install all updates, but you can click on each individual update and use the more information to see what that update is supposed to do before you install it. I certainly did not need an update about some language thing with some Lithuanian or Liberian currency thing so I did not install it. Good Luck and may the sun always shine upon your day.