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CPU cycle

February 7, 2012
CPU cycle

System: Acer Aspire M1640, Intel Core Duo E4700 2.6GHz, 2 GB RAM, Windows Vista Home Premium Q: I have noticed in Windows Task Manager that the CPU seems to regularly cycle from 100% down to about 50% and I wondered whether I might need to [...]

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More speed!

February 18, 2010
More speed!

System: Intel Celeron 2.40GHz, 760MB RAM, 40GB hard drive, LG GCE-8525B CD writer, Sony DRU-V200A DVD writer, Windows XP Home SP3 Q: I purchased my computer in 2004, therefore now it is classed as being old and slow, which is very true. However, I would [...]

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Memory problem

October 19, 2009
Memory problem

System: Athlon XP 2400+, MSI MS-6390 motherboard, 2GB RAM Q: I recently upgraded my system in order to be able to switch from XP to Vista and am having a number of problems. Firstly the system only reports having 1GB of RAM even though there [...]

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Trouble running SUSE Linux

August 19, 2009
Trouble running SUSE Linux

System: Pentium III 600 CPU, 386MB RAM, Windows 98 SE Q: I am a 76-year-old pensioner, and I have a PC that’s nearly as old as me. The machine is forever crashing, and I have therefore tried to run Linux instead of Windows. I have [...]

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