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Start with CCleaner[^] it was free and seems to do okay.
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Easy enough to install and use. It'll take a me a couple days with some of our normal processes to test, but stuff seems to be a bit snappier already.
I was surprised at how many issues I had in my registry. I know nothing of ms registry 
If it moves, compile it
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Well, it seemed to work for some things. Including boot/startup time, browser speed, and programs opening.
However, that was not my problem
It's whenever I do things like spreadsheet processing, vb6 modules, etc. These exact programs work with the same data and all situations , faster on the other computers with smaller specs. This one is just slow for some reason, and I can't figure out why.
If it moves, compile it
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Thus the "Start with". 
I am not an expert, but thought the tip might help.
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Right. The registry cleaner seemed to do exactly what it was supposed to. I liked the disk cleanup options as well. it did make an improvement on my computer. I just don't think it was the root problem.
You're solution did directly address the issue I was asking about. I just asked the wrong question it seems.
If it moves, compile it
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You should check Task Manager and see how many services are running in the background. CRTL+ALT+DEL or right-click the taskbar on the bottom of your screen.
If Office is bogging down try running a repair on it through thr tools option in either Word or Excel.
Defrag your drive lately? I usually run it two-three times in a row once a month, or setup a schedule. People tend to forget that drive speed/age can have a nasty effect of a PC as well.
**Note: Before doing any manual registy cleaning > Right-click on MyComputer in Regedit and export the entire registry tot he C:\drive in a folder like "C:\REGBACKUP\, so if you have to do a commandline fix it'll be there.
Check in Regedit under HKEY Local Machine\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run and see how many "things" are trying to run on startup. I get rid of all of the Adobe, Java, iTunes, HP, or any other Updater that's in there.
You can also post what your's shows for us to look at as well.
Something worth reading, albeit it's invincible!
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Windows XP had a "Run As..." command that allowed you to choose the user you want to run a program as.
In Win7, when I choose to run as Administrator, it doesn't let me choose which administrator.
Is there any way to run a program as a specific admin account in Windows 7?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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You may open the context menu with pressed shift key. Then there is another option "Run as different user" where you can enter a user name and the password.
[Update]
This is not necessary when logged in on a domain with Win 7 Pro. Then there is always an input field for a local administrator account name.
[/Update]
modified 16-Feb-12 3:24am.
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You learn something new every day. Five for the context menu with shift key.
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Thank you. A quite simple thing I still know from Windows 2000 where you always had to use it to show the 'Run as administrator' menu item.
One more note: When you are logged in on a domain with Win 7 Pro, you are always prompted for a local administrator account name.
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Excellent! Thanks so much.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: <Update>
This is not necessary when logged in on a domain with Win 7 Pro.
Then there is always an input field for a local administrator account name.
</Update>
I haven't found this to be true in the 18+ months I have been Administering Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It's just my experience here with 7 Pro. But there are some points that may be the source for this behaviour:
- Domain server is running Samba
- Actually logged in on domain with an user account (not logged in locally)
- Local profiles (no roaming)
- There is no client specific administrator account on the Samba server (only the account required to enter the domain)
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Hi,
I have always ran every computer I owned, or have Control over, in Administrator Mode.
We have a network of a (typical) three Computers. We trust eachother, and we want All of us to be able to Read, Modify, Delete and Write to All Files.
That works fine with our own Software,This has not caused even one problem, until MS Office Arrived. It stores by default, documents in unpredictable locations.
For Backup and Storage Purposes, we want the Whole Lot to be located in One Directory Location on One Computer, to which MS Office Defaults. We want to set up our Own Directory Methods, where Office is not giving easy options and second guessing the last folder. We are looking for a Solution where MS Office ALWAYS browses from the Virtual Disk Root, regardles who is signed on!
Regards,
Bram van Kampen
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You can change the default file locations in options
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On a customer site, a "normal" (i.e. non-administrative) user cannot access the sound settings (mmsys.cpl) of the computer, whereas an admin can. From the error message the user receives, my impression was that a group policy causes the problem. Do you know which group policy can do so (the customer's admins do not know that...)?
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Could try GPEDIT.MSC and check the local policies on the system. Easy way to rule out a GPO. Lots of stuff could cause a sound error, but I'd lean towards a corrupt driver. Possibly from a bad image that was used?
Question: Is the option grayed out, or does the error pop, and what error is it/
Something worth reading, albeit it's invincible!
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I'm considering installing a second NIC so that I can be connected to the web and a VPN at the same time.
If I were to open a browser, how does the system decide which network to use for the browser's communications?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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hmm.. InternetOptions?
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Change the default gateway on each card. You can give each a separate static IP address as well. Go into the IPV4 properties of each adapter to accomplish this.
In the preferences of the VPN client. You should be able to choose which one to use. Or consider using the ROUTE ADD command with the address you to VPN too.
Something worth reading, albeit it's invincible!
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My company just rolled out a beta win7x64 corporate image. I've been using it since Tuesday. I am getting errors that point me towards there being memory fragmentation at the system level.
In particular, the JVM won't run because it can't allocate object heap space and VirtualBox will fail loading a 1GB ram VM, when I have the following (rough) memory stats in resource monitor:
in use:1.9GB Modified: 100MB Standby: 3.1GB Free .9GB
The free memory creeps down until it's gone, the standby never reduces, and I get a error saying there is no memory and the VM kicks the bucket. I need help finding out what is fragging memory so I can convince my IT that it is a problem, and give them a clue where to look.
So, does anyone know any good tools for finding the cause?
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Try here[^] for the Win 7 SDK, as I think they included a memory testing utility in it.
Other option would be to try and use BootVis to see if a driver is not releasing from bootup or what not.
Try clearing the startup programs and opening Taskbar and seeing what's running for processes/services.
fyi...I've even seen svchost.exe' fill up on RAM from leftover Window's Updates.
Something worth reading, albeit it's invincible!
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Thanks, I will give it a try.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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hi,
I got a problem with browser credential forwarder. In my network I have ISA server 2004 which configure to control internet access of client machine. The rule that I configure is allow all user to access internet. the only setting that I set is allow user must be authenticate. All of my user are logon using domain credential.
The problem occur because sometime user A could access to website but sometime could not. As I check with the ISA log, I found that the browser did not forward user credential by default. that is why my firewall ISA do not allow the traffic.
so, how could i changed any setting to allow the browser always send credential forwarder to my ISA server to avoid any problem of accessing the internet?
thank,
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