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[Joan Archer]

Welcome to all our new members, enjoy your time with us.

 

[indianacarnie]

Welcome to all our newest members! You came to the right place

 

[Darkroadrage]

Hey Guys,

The names Jordan

I've just joined this forum. I was curious because I have been looking for solutions for programs which I have finally found and most were off this forum so I thought I would join and chat to everyone and say thanks for the advice that you guys have given me throughout the time that the website has been up Thanks Guys much appreciated!

 

[indianacarnie]

Welcome to the forums! Always good to see new "faces"

Check out our tutorials here, they were written by some very knowledgeable people and contain a wealth of information.

 

[Britton30]

Welcome aboard Jordan.

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums Jordan.

A Guy

 

[Darkroadrage]

Thanks Guys. I will have a look throughout the forum for the solutions for my problems. I have been searching the last few days but it seems that I havent found any solutions up to now for the problems but I will keep searching and hopefully someone will have put a solution up on the forum. If not then I will make a thread about it and see what replies I get off the members

Peace Out.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Welcome to the forums

 

[Darkroadrage]

Thanks Robot

 

[nommy the first]

Hello y'all!

The name's Stefan, I'm from Holland and I'm currently studying property- and contract law.
I have a lot of free time, and a dash of Windows knowledge, and plan to combine those two here

Nice to meet all of you!
Nommy

 

[x BlueRobot]

Welcome to the forums Stefan

 

[nommy the first]

Thanks BlueRobot!

 

[maxie]

Welcome to the Forum Stefan

 

[nommy the first]

Thanks Maxie!

 

[A Guy]

Welcome again to Seven Forums Stefan

A Guy

 

[nommy the first]

Thanks again A Guy!

 

[Staritza]

Hi. Registered with Win7 Forums last October but have only been here a few times; recently got a new PC (previous PC's were ancient relics with XP3 Home on them!!!) and also a Win7 installation disk on big special (the Tech outfit selling them obviously knew about Microsofts security update plans for Win7!!!); unfortunately the new PC is an ASRock (MotherBoard) of the lowest-end variety (it has a slower Athlon Processor in it than my eight-year old ASUS PC!!!) and am having a lot of trouble with the underpowered 3.2GHz Processor (system monitoring programs show that the Processor is the problem) with lots of "freezeups" that often take several minutes to "unlock", and sometimes it will not "unlock" at all and can only be free'd up again by forced-shutdown and then rebooting.

Am not a Geek, unfortunately, but do know that forced-shutdowns (hitting the "kill" button) are not good for computers, but do not know of any other way to deal with the problem (computer gear in my country, even second-hand stuff, is eye-wateringly expensive, and a better Processor is way out of my financial reach; would never go second-hand either as the local auction website is crawling with ripoffs).

Have got very little "imported" stuff on the Deck also, no big programs like graphics stuff, Word, etc, only some essential security things and a few utilities, but even so the Processor is struggling to handle these "extra's".

Every day i run "Privazer" at least once (the whole hog, including free-space); "WindowWasher"; "CC Cleaner"; and "Bleachbit" to get rid of junk accumulations and then run "ausdiskdefragportable", all of this to try and make it easier for the feeble Processor (this "housekeeping" makes a big difference, but freeze-ups still keep happening if there is a browser and a couple of other programs open as well).

Before going, should warn anyone looking for a new computer and who might be attracted by the (comparatively) lower prices of the ASRock Motherboard machines, that the cheapest ones can only take a maximum of 8GB of RAM and have only got TWO PCI slots (1 x PCI 1, and 1 x PCIE 1). The "documentation" that is supplied with ASRock computers is virtually non-existent (the "Manual" is more like a pamphlet) and the Motherboard CD can be bad news (i only use it to get the Sound Driver after a reinstallation of Win7 OS).

Would have any day preferred an ASUS, but could not afford one.

 

[x BlueRobot]

Welcome to the forums Staritza

 

[A Guy]

Welcome to Seven Forums Staritza. A Guy

 

[Staritza]

Thank you x Blue Robot and A Guy, it is very kind of you. You guys are Techs and undoubtedly talk to a lot of non-Geek newbies who are desperately floundering around in the Awesome Ocean Of Computerdom!!!

So want to say that if ever you encounter newbies who are "Economically Challenged" and needing advice on what kind of computer to buy, please warn them not to jump at a cheapest one like i did (ASRock N68-VS3 FX Motherboard) as am not happy at all with the one i have got, and wish that i had been able to afford an ASUS (if the opportunity ever arises am going to get a new ASUS).

ASRock seem to be the cheapest around, and Geeks on the Web say that qualitywise ASRock is actually good; however the Geeks also say (as i had to learn the hard way) that you do not get much "Bang For Buck" beyond basic quality of componentry and they all tell newbies to go ASUS instead.

Wholeheartedly agree. Hey newbies, do not be tempted by a computer because it at the time is the only one affordable, because otherwise you could be like me - endlessly kicking yourself!!!