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Does anybody have any experience of actually utilizing Intel VT-d on their system? Not just that "I have a VT-d enabled CPU", but actually used for virtual machines or something, if so, which CPU do you have and which mobo? Because I'm...

As stubass mentioned, the smart data seems to be pretty healthy, however.. Quote:Originally Posted by patriotaki ... making a clicking (tik tik ) fast noise like its hitting somewhere ... .. could you describe the sound a bit more...

So at least there are no visible bad sectors, yet. Could you post a screenshot or contents of the Health tab? (and info tab if its not too much trouble)

This, the free version works fine. Here for direct download. Also make sure NOT to run as "quick scan".

CPU can be a bottleneck in download speeds. Though this to be true, it requires the connection speed to be awfully fast, and the connection to have a extremely strong encryption. As an example, I managed to hit a 70% CPU usage for one...

If you are using windows, and are not behind NAT, eg. your local ip is public, open up cmd (command prompt) and type: ipconfig /release (after this you should lose connectivity) then wait a little moment (usually ~10 seconds is enough)...

Quote:Originally Posted by ronnin426850 Applications require Administrator permissions to copy themselves to Windows system dirs. - ProgramFiles, Windows, System, etc. Look for a way to give the HDD the same identification criteria...

A normal* virus can spread only if it's being executed. Which means that if there's a virus running in your system, it has been executed (example: opened a exe containing a virus if we are on windows), and the virus usually has same...

There's a tool called GPU Shark that can show which processes are using the GPU. It is highly possible there's some app in the background doing this. I had similar problem with Windows live messenger a year ago. Random load spikes at...