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Windows 8.1 mail- 100% CPU usage

Hello,I am testing Dell Venue 8 Pro. Overall great device and great system, however, I found very annoying bug:Windows mail app with few mail boxes (4 Outlook.com, 1 Gmail, 1 IMAP) it may take up to 20...

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Internet works half the time with Windows 8

My PC worked fine with the internet until I updated to Win 8. I can only get about half of the websites to connect now. I have 7 on a different drive, and it still works fine , so it is not a hardware...

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booting

My 64-bit pc boots, but sits at the black splash screen with blue windows 8.1 logo with no spinning dots. If I force shutdown,and restart within a minute or two the pc start without a trouble.

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screen jumps up and down

My screen in Internet Explorer periodically has the screen jump up and down rapidly. It goes so fast that you can't read it. The only way out is to use Task Manager to close it.  On the web there are...

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Dwm.exe starts consuming lots of CPU when machine is idle

Since doing a fresh install of Windows 8 Pro RTM x64 English on my Sony Vaio Z21 laptop, I've been bothered by a sudden increase in fan noise whenever I leave the machine idle for a while and the...

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Big Content Access Performance Challenge

Challenge: big data performance is zero with Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation at the momentProblem 1: big partitions (>2TB): not available!Problem 2: big files (> 2TB): no access !Problem 3: big...

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Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention

Log Name:      Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance Date:          19.1.14 15:03:40 Event ID:      501 Task Category: Desktop...

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Windows Experience Index

Windows Experience Index is Not Working

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Issue when trying to open FILE EXPLORER

So I recently received a notification to update Windows 8 to 8.1 and installation went smoothly.  It wasn't until I restarted my pc and tried opening my "FILE EXPLORER" from my start up menu.  When I...

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System (ntoskrnl.exe) high CPU usage 8.1

Lately I have noticed that the system process is always taking up 17-20% of my CPU. From the time I boot up I have about 5 minutes before system spins up and steals 1/5 of my CPU. I have an Asus g750jw...

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BAD_POOL_CALLER

Hi,When i was Connecting any external media(like:Pendrive) my system getting this error.And it will restart. Why its came like this anybody help me ?

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Need to backup all programs and files without System Image

Hi all,I recently got myself into a quandary. I installed 4 additional drives with the intent of creating a RAID volume that's supported by the BIOS. In order to do that I must change the BIOS setting...

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XPerf - The parameter is incorrect

Using Windows 8.1 with 64 bit.Running these commands as admin. What is wrong with the third command? xperf -on DiagEasy xperf -d foo.etl xperf foo.etl xperf: error: foo.etl:  The parameter is...

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how to solve Windows Media Player 12 Error C00D11B1 Problem for windows 8

how to solve Windows Media Player 12 Error C00D11B1 Problem for windows 8

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2TB USB disks don't work under Windows 8.1. Enterprise Evaluation

Hi,2TB hard disks don't get started in Windows 8.1. Enterprise Evaluation:*** Error code 43*** Unkown USB Device - Device Descriptor Request Failed*** configured but not startedHardware is OK i.e. this...

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Windows 8 start screen is minimized forever and i cant get it to go full...

When i got my new P.C the start screen was always on the full screen. But suddenly it just shows up on the bottomleft of the screen and nothing i have done so far has fixed it. im not sure if this is a...

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photo directory moved

Recently I setup an ssd as my primary drive, "os.". in doing do I move all my photos in the pictures library to an hdd, "called it e:." If I click on the library from windows explorer it opens and show...

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Memory Management, Crit Structure Corrupt, Bad Pool Caller, ntfs file system...

So after freshly installing Win 8.1 I was happy, untill I started to play some games that I previously played on Win 7, I've started to get a whole heap of errors, I did have more written down but have...

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Gmail stopped receiveing emails in Windows8 Mail

I only recently starting using Windows 8.  The "Mail" option has been working fine with receiving messages to my gmail account up until a couple of days ago when I noticed it had stopped receiving...

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Search is slow, but ONLY for settings

When I type "Device", applications with the word "Device" show up instantly (seem to show up before I finish typing).  However, Device Manager of Settings shows up about 5 seconds later.  The same for...

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