Recent content by sasha007

Hi, I cannot find these keys in Regedit under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop .. Any idea why? Also , any app that would log the shutdown and restart activities to know what Windows is actually doing while it is taking so much time?

Hi , I've just installed a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 and it takes a lot of time to restart/shutdown (about 5-6 min ). Even boot times are not as fast as they should be on a new install .. (boot takes about a minute ) Can anyone help me to find out what is it that is causing the slow...

Yes my system has an i7 3630 processor with HD 4000 graphics ... and yes the 8.1 drivers on Dell are listed but they list the Intel graphics driver of Date 2013 ... And yes , that latest build from Intel is what i downloaded and installed which gave that error ..

But Dell has the drivers which are dated 18th Oct 2013 for my Intel HD 4000 . So i thought i'd update to the latest version .. Should i re install those 1 year old drivers ? :O

I am using the latest version of Windows 8.1 on my desktop computer. This morning I suddenly got this popup when i turned off my lcd: "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered" error: I've installed driver 10.18.10.4061 for my intel HD 4000 , a while ago from Intel website ...

Hi, I'm facing a weird problem wherein if i delete some files , the recycle bin icon does not refresh on it's on , it still shows the empty icon until I press F5 to refresh the desktop , when the icon refreshes to show full recycle bin icon . What to do? :huh: PS:- I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro...

Yea .. I followed the exact same instructions .. Still it doesn't come :(

Hi , I'm using Win 8.1 pro x64 .. I tried many tools and manual method to add OEM information which would show up in the system properties ... I add the following values : Still there is no information in the system properties .. Can someone please help ? :(

Hi, I had one laptop connected to my outlook account. Now I bought another laptop and connected it to the same outlook account .. While the Windows 8 setup , I selected to set it up as a new PC and to sync just the Star menu layout from the old Laptop . Now I accidentally changed the old...

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Hi usasma , Just again ran the Dell Pre diagnostic before boot , and this time it threw an error :- So apparently the problem is with the HDD . What do you say ?

I'm under warranty so Dell would replace it with 1TB 5400RPM drive only i guess !

I'm contacting Dell now . BTW they told me to download and run an application called PC doctor and it reported that the hard disk is bad and needs to be replaced . Is that in line with our findings ?

I hear you ! Disabled Fast boot but still the issue :(

I've disabled caching with SSD for now . Will monitor . BTW System shipped with SSD and it ran fine until now .