Welcome to the Performance and Maintenance Forum.
In this forum the Microsoft Answers Community will assist you with questions regarding Optimizing the performance of your PC, creating backups, hard disk management, setting and configuring your power settings, and many other subjects.
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The biggest question you will be asked is, do you have the latest drivers for your hardware? If you are having driver issues here are some steps you can take to update a driver for hardware that isn’t working properly.
Performance
Optimize Windows Vista for better performance
Optimize Windows 7 for better performance
Maintenance
Using Troubleshooters to fix common problems
System Maintenance Troubleshooter
A couple of simple troubleshooting steps you can start with are doing a System File Checker followed by a Clean Boot. If you suspect hardware being the cause of your performance issues, you can try to do a Disk Error Check followed by a Memory Diagnostic.
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Edgar
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