Troubleshooting Windows Driver Problems

Troubleshooting Windows Driver Problems

Windows Driver Problems can be frustrating because they’re often difficult to identify. I always recommend using a product like Driver Detective to manage your Windows drivers. Driver Detective will locate, download and install drivers your system needs, update drivers that are already installed and remove drivers your system no longer needs.

Even with the expert management services of Driver Detective, you can still run into driver issues. Most users don’t understand (and don’t want to understand) exactly how their computer systems work. Driver problems can arise seemingly out of thin air, or they can arise immediately after a new piece of hardware has been installed in the computer. They can also show up after the OS or another hardware driver has been updated, installed or even removed.

One good tool for determining the overall performance of your system is called the DPC Latency Checker. This is a free utility that can provide immediate information on the performance of your computer. It can help you diagnose driver problems, though it doesn’t get specific about which driver(s) may be having difficulty. In other words, this tool will point you in the right direction when trying to troubleshoot system problems.

The DPC Latency Checker with a tutorial that will help you figure out how to use the program. DPC Latency checker is a small program, and there’s no installing to do, simply download it and run it.

DPC Latency Checker measures how quickly your system responds to your commands. As you open and close applications, DPC Latency Checker will graphically display your system’s response capabilities. Using this tool while you perform certain problematic tasks can help you determine what the system is doing. You may need to disable devices and then re-add them one at a time to determine which devices may be causing difficulty.

Once you’ve located the problem, you can disable the misbehaving device as a temporary measure. If you don’t have Driver Detective loaded, you might try locating the following to resolve the issue:

Apply all OS updates and security patches.
Uninstall the driver for the misbehaving device.
Apply all driver updates and patches for the misbehaving device. Check with the device manufacturer for the most up-to-date driver, and be sure to pay attention to the specific OS requirements of each driver. If the most current driver won’t work with your OS, locate the last good driver for your version of the OS and install that one.

Try the suspect device once a fresh copy of the driver is installed to see if your problem has been resolved.

Speed up Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

1. Click on Start, enter “regedit” into the search field.

2. Goto: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Mouse

Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

3. Double-click on “MouseHoverTime” and change the value to 100 or lower:

Change the mouse hover time to 100 or lower

4. Voilà, your thumbnail previews should appear a lot faster now.

Disable Search indexing for better performance in Windows 7

If you know where your files are stored and never really use the search function, stop this service and you will gain a significant performance boost in Windows 7.

• Click on the Start button and type in “services.msc”
• Find and right click the “Windows Search” and click properties
• In the startup type field choose “Disabled”
• Reboot your computer and you are done.

Black screen after Windows 7 Install

Some users especially Asus have had troubles installing Windows 7,as there seems to be a bug when using 2 monitors.So if you experience this unplug one of them,and then install Windows 7 again..

If you already have the bug try pushing Ctrl+Alt+Delete and see if it removes the black screen.If not you can try starting in safe mode by hitting F8 just before Windows 7 loads..

Once you get to the desktop open notepad and copy the following in.

displayswitch /extend
displayswitch /internal

Now save the file as a .bat file..You could call is display.bat

Put the file in the windows startup folder..
C:/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup, where C is the letter of the drive Windows 7 is installed on..

Reboot and Windows 7 should load correctly now

Another tip is to remove all USB units except Mouse/keyboard and reboot.

common Laptop problems

Laptop computer problems can cause by internal disorders of the physical connectors. The common victims are network or modem ports, which may be detached within the case or the breaking of the power connector solder joint of the board. Such problems are very dangerous because here you need to open up the body of the notebook for soldering. Be careful to use a decent solder sucker for quick clean up.

Laptop problems are often caused by virus attacks. In this case they behave very strangely. One common symptom is the screen display goes off though the laptop is running. This can be due to graphic display driver files affected by virus or sometimes deleted by anti virus considering it to be a strange file. Re-starting the laptop in Safe Mode and re-installing the display drivers will repair this problem.

If you are not tech savvy, my personal advice is to hire a professional technician for Laptop computer repair unless it is software related problem. It is always better if you can contact s Laptop Repair Company authorized by the Laptop manufacturer.