do you recall when this started occuring? Was it just after you updated a driver or program? If so uninstall said driver/program and reinstall an older version.

Also you may want to run a...

I would still recommend going to sysinfo.org and making sure a startup program is not necessary. Some startup items may be necessary for certain programs to function properly (antivirus, firewall,...

have you defragmented your drive recently? Defragmenting can help. Also there is a program called BootVis which can optimize the placement of your boot files on the disk to improve boot speed. ...

for a .daa file you will need the program PowerISO (http://www.poweriso.com/) to extract/burn it. WinRAR, Nero, etc don't recognize the .daa format

Are you sure that the service packs will allow the windows installer to see larger partitions if you're BIOS doesn't recognize them? My understanding was that first your BIOS has to recognize...

I just happened to stumble onto this site, but after browsing around it seemed to be a great computer tech community. As a computer science student I'm pretty excited to get active here, as DaniWeb...