Recent content by MaxPower2003

Just taking a wild stab in the dark here as I don't use IE but have you checked your keyboard settings on the bottom of your screen (that ENG button on the lower right on the Task Bar)? Mine got mysteriously changed to French Canada the other day and I couldn't use my number row.

Interesting to note; online ads are one of the ways viruses and malware are spread. The Minecraft Wiki had this at the top of their page today: Earlier today Curse was notified by Google that there was a script known to be malicious being served though some of our sites. Upon further...

Ok, I ran "The Time" with my Task Manager open and monitored it throughout the evening. Runtime Broker steadily got larger and larger as the night went on and got to about 500MB. I uninstalled "The Time" and Broker immediately fell to 1MB. It never got above 5MB for the rest of the night...

You know what? I have The Time installed on my Metro. I'll uninstall that and see if it helps. If it doesn't, I'll run VMMap as club suggested. I'll post my results this evening. Until then, thanks for the helpful answers, folks! :)

Have you turned on Fast Start? http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/6320-fast-startup-turn-off-windows-8-a.html I noticed if your system has to Restart, it doesn't use Fast Start and will take longer than normal.

I was looking through my Task Manager last night and saw something called Runtime Broker running. According to this article: What is RuntimeBroker.exe and Why is it Running? it's only supposed to take up about 3MB of RAM. However, mine was using up 865MB of RAM and I didn't have apps running...

Not entirely true. The Microsoft Solitaire Collection app has ads. That one was written by Microsoft, no?

The free Media Center offer is here: Add features - Microsoft Windows And if you fill out this page and say you bought your PC after July 2012, you'll get Windows 8 for $14.99. They don't ask for verification (at least, they didn't when I bought it on Friday) so POW! More of a discount...

Pretty much the same here. I don't use MS for any of my daily activities (Mail, Messaging, People...BING???) so I deleted all the original bloatware and just pinned all my frequently used apps to the Metro screen.

I haven't seen an ad on the internet in almost a decade. I've been using FF with AdBlocker and NoScript for years. No banners. No ads. None of those annoying forced ads on YouTube. And my cookies get deleted everytime the browser closes. Ad companies can blow a bag of dongs for all I...