Recent content by Backdoorman53200

I use Open VPN

For now, the symptom has stopped... but I am as clueless as to WHY the symptom started - let alone why it stopped... So, I have no clue if the symptom will return or not. In the interim - I greatly reduced the number of files in that folder; and Ive applied a few of the recent windows updates...

I set windows update to notify me of an update - but to let me decide when & if I want to install it - becuse some earlier windows updates were crappy and caused more problems than they solved - so, I wait for at least a month after a new update posts to see if there are any complaints about the...

Hellfire13 - I just finished running HDD Regenerator -it repoerted that there were no bed sectors reported on my C drive then I ran cmd.exe as an administrator and entered "chkdsk /r/f" and then rebooted the PC to let chechdisk run during the boot-up Then a ran defraggler - it only reported...

Im running HDD Regenerator at the moment - then I will run chkdsk after that I hope its not the HDD (sigh) I have Comodo Internet Security suite as my antivirus & Firewall; and the antispyware software that I use is Malwarebytes, Spyware Blaster, and Spybot S&D - I update them at least every 2...

The thing I find odd is that Im not having the same problem when accessing files that arent media files...

HellFire The RAM usage is less than 30% & the CPU usage is less than 40% and my browser WaterFox (the 64 bit version of FireFox) usually is the program or service that is using most of both. How would I know if something is leaking resource ?

In reply to Junkey Monkey 1) the corrupted AMD file might have happened the last time I tried to update the video drivers & AMD Catalyst software - there was a power interruption before the update completed, and the PC wasnt powered down - So, after the power came back on a few hours later, I...

My tech skills are those of a non-college educated, self-taught, user, who isnt too proud to admit that I have learned many things from my son who went to college - who describes me as a mid-level user. I'm running the 64bit version of Windows 8 - which was upgraded to v8.1 about 6 months...