classic33
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Running XP, and it's making no attempt to update to windows 10.
windows 10 stopped working with printer?
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User6179
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My computer tries to boot from dvd and network first since W10 was installed because it takes ages to detect the disk drive , strange thing is the reset has fixed one problem I didnt notice before , the dvd drive had disappeared from "my computer " page , it has reappeared today.
Should boot straight from disk first I think if a disk is inserted , think that is the default setting.
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User6179
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XP was best OS !
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User6179
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It might actually be XP , the computer packed in and I bought a new one then I got it fixed to have a spare , It was just a worn out hard drive , think the guy might of put XP on it at the time .
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cyberknight
As long as I breathe, I attack.
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Done some digging and found an article about uninstalling usb 3 root hub .
keithmac
Guru
XP with Chrome browser is perfectly usable.
Windows 7 is bearable but 8 onwards are just a train wreck..
I spent a few hours working out why 2 Win7 machines were running slow and using 100% cpu, turns out a part of Windows Update was broken and you have to fix it by hand; the update broke the updater..
Windows 7 is bearable but 8 onwards are just a train wreck..
I spent a few hours working out why 2 Win7 machines were running slow and using 100% cpu, turns out a part of Windows Update was broken and you have to fix it by hand; the update broke the updater..
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Any details on that? My Win 7 laptop seems to be using a lot more CPU than it should do. Not 100%, but enough that it runs warm even when it shouldn't be doing much. The battery died suddenly and almost completely fairly soon after installing WIn 7, which I have read is a common problem. People have replaced their batteries and then the new ones die a month or two later! (I just use the laptop on mains power now.)
Shut Up Legs
Down Under Member
Until the next reminder (or unsolicited download). Those "never remind me again" dialog boxes are telling you great big lies.
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User6179
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I downloaded Chrome the other day and it came with a browser hijack so deleted it .
keithmac
Guru
How computer savvy are you?.
Look in task manager when you have high cpu load and it will be linked to an svhost if it's the same problem, you can click on that and see what services are running.
One of them will be part of windows update.
You then have to shut windows update down and manually install 2 updates from Microsoft.
I'll try and dig the links out.
My laptop at home and work at idle were using 50% + cpu and this fixed both of them!.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Reasonably ...
I have noticed svchost processes taking quite a lot of cpu time in the past. They seem ok at the moment but my browser is taking 35%! I will shut it down and restart it ...
PS The browser restart didn't help but I had 3 other tabs open which have been open in the background for several days. I closed them and browser CPU load is now a more reasonable 4-11%.
Interrupts seem to be busy .. 1-5%. They used to sit well below 1% most of the time when I had Win XP on this laptop. (I had a HDD for Win XP but have replaced that with an SSD for Win 7 so I am not comparing exactly the same hardware.)
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