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Every time I appear to have a huge memory leak / svchost shows to be using between 600MB and 1.5 gb of RAM in taskmanager. In the meanwhile, having found the culprit service (Windows Update) if I disable the Windows update service, the svchost.exe memory drops to like 80mb and the system speeds...

The components give no obvious clue on what could be the problem as they all seem to fit in an system that would never normally get such performance issues and after all the stuttering to 10 FPS, so I think it's worth it finding out what, or which component causes this because it's the most...

I'm about to install the Windows 10 preview, i know there can be many obstacles (it's a beta after all) but who can say how good the driver support is? I mean are there huge differences, can Windows 8/generic drivers be used just fine on 10, without too many instabilities? Is there a great...

Ok, so windows firewall can be easily ''disabled'' from the control panel and such, but it keeps re-enabling it, there are some turnsides most likely because Microsoft wants you to use Windows firewall; - It randomly re-enables itself - It randomly enables firewall on domains (public, network...

You can easily disable and turn on services with services.msc, but is there also an way to completely delete services? I know all services are bound to their executables/files but I want to easily remove the service themselves, i know that before i used some kind of command line with Windows 8...

Indeed, as Adroid said it's commonly... for a few PSU's from a certain batch. You can say 2 out of 10 PSU's have it or will get it from the day of purchase or later. Most people however, think it's damaged parts/damaging stuff, but it isn't. The PSU will have the same lifespan as an other not...

Thanks for the explanations, I had no trouble with finding a timespace and it wasn't just about 1 PC, but I just wanted to know the technical mechanism causing the difference. Hawkeye you explained it very well, but.. Is it then only moved by low-level disk index? Because the actual file...

As this is on Windows 8.1 it's likely to be an UEFI issue. 8.1 selects uefi boot or not, and might cause this. Deselect uefi to (sata, or similar/classic options working with w7/before) and try again. If its already deselected (unlikely with W8.1) just select it otherwise, just switch it and...

Its not needed to make double topics. You can combine in http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2101481/mechanical-keyboard.html if the switch would be a separate item or something.

As shadyhamster said, it's probably coil whine. Myself also had whine sometimes and it seemed to be an eletrical circuit in the PSU that was under high loads, making a different while all day (20 seconds, 5 seconds break/higher/lower) When checking it up, it had to do with electric frequences...

If you already made the choice for this keyboard, the rest is a matter of taste for the color. Asking me personally, I would say I'd choose brown. I wouldn't care about colors itself but about eye comfort in long gaming sessions (and additionally, color distraction) so I would choose a neutral...

That's right, if the PC would ever go to someone else (even after her, if you trust the new owner) , it's alot easier to 'recover' files with utilities that may be private or sensitive and this risk will be reduced by re-installing your OS while formatting it Transfer the files with the ways...

Your system drive can contain several files that have read/write protection (system files) as example if you install software it can place its files (even in documents) and give file properties with it in security access lists. They can block you from copying a whole folder/drive by selecting...

SATA III is more like a standard, generally older SATA's are off the market so it's obvious you got it shipped with SATAIII. However some shops still show difference with III's listing (-6-GBPS!) but not to be found otherwise... To get to your problem, if it says it's available for speed, then...