My Windows 10 is running slow. How do I fix it?
Windows 10 is one of the most optimized OSs. It is known for it’s simplicity and smoothness. The reason that you are not able to run windows 10 smoothly may be because of your hardware. Upgrading your RAM, changing your CPU or upgrading your existing HDD with a faster SSD will bring noticeable changes. If that’s something that you do not wish to do, then here are a few tweaks that you can try out to improve your PCs performance.To improve booting speeds:Open Task Manager and go to the Startup tab. Disable all the applications that you think are useless.Search and open Power Options. Click on Choose what the power buttons do on the left side of the window. Click on Change settings that are currently unavailable and tick Turn on fast startup under the Shutdown Settings menu.To improve general performance:Go to Power Options and select the High Performance power plan.Search and open System. Click on Advanced System Settings on the left side of the window. Click on Settings (under Performance). Select Adjust for best performance.Download and Run CCleaner.Search and Open Notifications and Action Settings. Disable all notifications.Open Cortana Settings and disable everything.Search for %temp% in the Start Menu. Delete all files present in the folder that pops up.Defragment your drives regularly using Disk Defragmenter.Clean your drives using Disk Cleanup.Hope this helps!
How can I merge partitions to get more space on my C drive?
You need to remove the partitions following your "C:" partition. Then you can "grow" that partition into the contiguous space at its end. So this would mean you need to temporarily copy off the data on the other partitions before you clear them. I'm not aware of any easy way to merge two NTFS partitions into one - perhaps some form of folder mounting (see point 3 below), but I don't think it would help that much.If you mean the drive itself is already used fully (i.e. no empty partition possible), then you can add another disc. Then you have some options:Move some stuff off onto the D: drive (which would be the most probable letter windows assigns to the new disc / partition), or Create a spanned disc - though this would mean you need to make an image of your C drive to copy back onto the new spanned disc (as the old disc would be cleared). I don't recommend this course as it's a form of RAID 0 by using NTFS to be a software RAID (had lots of corruptions before if anything goes wrong with any one of the discs - then you lose everything).Mount the new disc as a folder in your C drive instead of letting Windows assign it a drive letter. This is much more flexible and doesn't cause as much hassles as the spanning idea. E.g. mount the new disc to some folder under My Documents - thus anything in that folder is actually on the 2nd disc.If you cannot add a 2nd disc (e.g. no space in the laptop for a 2nd drive), then your only alternative is to replace the disc with a larger disc. You'd need to image the existing windows installation so you can copy it into the new disc. The last thing you want to do would be to install a new windows and all the programs you need as well as copy all your data over - much quicker to simply clone the entire installation.However, you may have to look at what you can remove from your existing disc instead. Perhaps you can move some stuff off onto external storage. Or even archive it onto BluRay / DVD. I tend to keep only the data I need access to "right now" on my discs - archiving and deleting about once a month all the stuff which wasn't accessed in the last 30 days. The timing you'd need to figure for yourself (both how often you do it and what the time limits need to be) as it may differ for each use case.
How do I increase drive C space in Windows 7?
Hi,there are two ways,you can try:First method:1. Right click My Computer and choose Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management.2. Select the adjacent disk of the disk you want to extend, right click and choose Shrink Volume to create some free disk space.3. Select the disk you want to extend, right click and choose Extend Volume to increase disk space.Second method:Windows built-in Disk Management utility has some limitations in increasing disk space. First, only Windows Vista, Windows 2008, Windows 7 and Windows 10 Disk Management have the ability to shrink and extend system volume. And second, there must be contiguous unallocated space behind the partition that you want to extend. Otherwise, you have to delete the partition behind it or increase disk space with third-party partition manager software.like as gparted , MiniTool partition wizard and so on.1.download software of MiniTool partition wizard and launch it.2.Select the c drive and click "Move/Resize" to enter next interface.3.Increase c drive partition by dragging the right arrow at the scrollbar to the right or directly entering accurate values in the textboxes below. After setting, please click "OK".4.Last, user could perceive corresponding changes in this interface, please click "Apply" to execute pending operations. Thus, our partition magic software would perfectly increase c drive partition without data loss.About the more guide of How to increase drive C space in windowsHope that helps
How do I clone a 64Gb SSD drive on a 128Gb SSD drive? I have to keep the 64Gb drive in the laptop while cloning, but where do I put the 128Gb drive? Do I have to buy an external case, and if so, what kind?
There are 3 ways to clone your current drive:Use the eSATA port (if your laptop has one), or a USB-->SATA adapter (like this one: http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-c...).Use a surrogate desktop computer with multiple SATA ports.Clone the disk to a file, and restore that image to your new disk.Clone utilities:Redo Backup (http://redobackup.org/)CloneZilla (http://www.clonezilla.org)Norton Ghost (http://us.norton.com/ghost/)
Idiot Windows Movie Maker is being stupid how can I bypass this?
Usually you're going to get that message for a couple of reasons. If you have any video clips in the project, one or more of them aren't compatible with Movie Maker or your computer is low on resources (RAM or, most often, HD free space). Video editors use a lot of resources. I'm down to 35 Gbs (out of 200 Gbs total) and Movie Maker, Video Studio Pro and my screen recorders are already running slowly and being butts;-) Microsoft's Photo Story 3 is an excellent slideshow program (and one of Microsoft's best kept secrets), with great pan and zoom effects that will save to image WMV format that you can then finish it up in Movie Maker or save it to your computer. To play in DVD players, convert from WMV image file type to WMV or AVI and then use Windows DVD Maker to burn it to a disk.. Photo Story was originally made for XP and will work in Vista if, after you download the msi installation file, you right click on it, scroll down to Properties, click the compatibility tab and run it in compatibility mode for XP, sp2 and then click to install it. To place its icon on your Desktop (or to pin it to the Start Menu), click on Start and, in the search box type Photo Story 3. When its name appears at the top of the Search Box, right click on it, scroll down to "Pin To Start Menu" and/or, for the Desktop icon, "Send To..." and click on "Desktop" in the list that appears. http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/hippohelp... http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/det... There were so many complaints about Photo Story's not working with Windows 7, that Microsoft tweaked it for that operating system, changed the version number to 3.1 but left the "XP" in its title. I don't know if, in Windows 7, it puts an icon on the Desktop or not ....but you can always do the Search and right click method.
Slow choppy video in a Dell Inspiron 1100?
I appreciate the fact that you brought this to my attention. Please perform my solutions and indicate whether or not did my solutions help. Hello. My name is Ms. Dell and it is my pleasure to assist you. Open IE7 ( Internet explore 7) which is your browser and click on TOOLS located to the upper right and then select INTERNET OPTIONS......... There, you will see many buttons. Click on DELETE, then you’ll be taken to where you can either DELETE FILES, DELETE HISTORY, DELETE FORMS, DELETE PASSWORDS AND DELETE ALL. I highly recommend you to delete your files, history, forms and cookies. Then close that box and then click on OK located to the bottom. Disk cleanup and Disk defragment usually help improve your computer proformance, too. Don't worry, I'll also kindly instruct you to operate this feature. Disk clean up: Click on START located to the bottom left on your computer screen and point your mouse cursor over ALL PROGRAMS. Then search for ACCESSORIES and click on SYSTEM TOOLS. Then click on Disk Clean up. After it has completed, run disk Defragment. Click on START located to the bottom left on your computer screen and point your mouse cursor over ALL PROGRAMS. Then search for ACCESSORIES and click on SYSTEM TOOLS. Then click on Disk Defragment, then click on the Analyze button and then defragment. You have a blessed day now. :)