Windows 8 is buggy

Suzanne M

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I recently installed Windows 8 Consumer Preview. Although the interface and everything is good, my computer is full of bugs & damn slow. Not only that when I leave it for awhile and it goes into sleep mode, I cannot go back to what I was previously doing without restarting the system. When the computer sleeps, it refuses to go back without me pressing the on/of button and restarting the system. What software can I use to kill and resolve all the bugs in my system? I think I have tried 100s of free software but nothing works completely. I am looking for good free software which will do the job. I am not interested in paying. M tired of this buggy laptop. Its been in the same state these past few months. Nothing helps.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Windows 8
If you want a bug free system then I suggest you go back to whatever version of windows you were using before, Windows 8 is beta pre-released software so of course it's going to have bugs.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    me
    CPU
    i9
Actually even when I used Windows 7 there were lots of problems. Basically my laptop is ridden with problems. Pls suggest a free software to cure everything. M fed up of trying different useless software.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Windows 8
If you reload Windows 7 and dont install lots of junk software then it will run fine unless your laptop has a hardware issue, installing pre-release beta software like Windows 8 is not going to help you at all.
 

My Computers

System One System Two

  • OS
    Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    me
    CPU
    i9
With the Sleep problem, tyry going into the Power options and selecting, under the Advanced options - USB selective suspend - Enabled.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    Other Info
    Use several different computers during a day, so specs are irrelevant.
When the computer sleeps, it refuses to go back without me pressing the on/of button and restarting the system.
Hi,

The problem is what you did or did not do, and not Windows 8 in the least. Please run the tool in the top thread of this subforum (right click, run as admin), then attach the zip it says to make here to a new post. We'll make it good.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8250 x86 + 7 SP1 x86 + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86
    CPU
    P4 3.4 GHz HT
    Motherboard
    MSI-7211
    Memory
    OCZ 2 GB DDR @ 400 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    HIS AGP HD 3850 Turbo Ice-Q
    Sound Card
    MOTU Traveler firewire interface
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer x223w
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar Black 1 TB Sata II, WD 400 GB Sata I, WD 120 GB Sata I
    PSU
    300W generic
    Case
    Cybertron
    Keyboard
    Logitech Classic Keyboard 200, Dell RT7D20
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
    Internet Speed
    2 MByte/sec Down, 250 KByte/sec Up
davehc: I changed my options, I think my laptop's sleep problem is fixed
GMan: I don't understand wat u mean, sorry
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Windows 8
There is only the msinfo32 in the zip, but from that alone, I can tell you to uninstall Advanced SystemCare. Reboot. Then type services.msc in the start menu. See if Windows Defender is set to Automatic and if not, do so. Then start it too.

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Next up, you don't have a video card driver installed.

"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series (Engineering Sample - WDDM v1.20) PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68E0&SUBSYS_104B1462&REV_00\4&8562B06&0&0008 This device cannot start."

So install the driver from here:

AMD Catalyst 12.4 WHQL 64-bit download from Guru3D.com

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Your Realtek HD Audio driver is old, so that really needs to be updated:

Name Realtek High Definition Audio
Manufacturer Realtek
Status OK
PNP Device ID HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0662&SUBSYS_14621038&REV_1001\4&11E74DE&0&0001
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\rtkvhd64.sys (6.0.1.5973, 1.93 MB (2,023,840 bytes), 30/4/2010 2:09 PM)

You can do so from the following link, on the right side that says HD Audio Codec driver:

Realtek

Be sure to follow the driver installation's simple instructions on the screen when installing.

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Now when done, the most important step yet. Download the special tool to remove AVG. Boot to safe mode and use it.

If you are completely stuck on how to do that, then just try your luck by simply uninstalling AVG, rebooting, and then check on the Windows Defender service to be set well as described above. Do the same for Windows Firewall service.

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I stopped looking at stuff here. The above changes are going to make the machine excellent and run perfectly. If not, please re-run the tool again and zip all of the files it collects.

Your machine will be perfect one way or another. :) Good luck.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8250 x86 + 7 SP1 x86 + Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86
    CPU
    P4 3.4 GHz HT
    Motherboard
    MSI-7211
    Memory
    OCZ 2 GB DDR @ 400 MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    HIS AGP HD 3850 Turbo Ice-Q
    Sound Card
    MOTU Traveler firewire interface
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer x223w
    Screen Resolution
    1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    WD Caviar Black 1 TB Sata II, WD 400 GB Sata I, WD 120 GB Sata I
    PSU
    300W generic
    Case
    Cybertron
    Keyboard
    Logitech Classic Keyboard 200, Dell RT7D20
    Mouse
    Logitech M510
    Internet Speed
    2 MByte/sec Down, 250 KByte/sec Up
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