Run Check Disk from the Command Line to Find and Fix Errors

Open up command prompt

1. Go to windows search on the bottom left hand side type in "command prompt"
click on the icon that looks like this:

2. When comand prompt opens up type in the following: chkdsk C:  (C represents the drive letter you are looking to check disk on) and click enter this will give you the intergirty of the drive, for example in this case it's NTFS file format 

The process will look like this when it's running: 

3. To find and repair errors that are found in the E drive, use the following command: chkdsk C:  /f  Check Disk can’t repair volumes that are in use. If the volume is in use, Check Disk displays a prompt that asks if you want to schedule the volume to be checked the next time you restart the system. Click Yes to schedule this. 

My Downloads are taking forever!!! Please help

Many times users think the reason for the slowness is their computer, however were we need to look when you experience this type of issue, is normally your internet connection. They have slowness problems when streaming a video, browsing sites or uploading files.

I recommend browsing to the following website to perform a speed test: http://speedtest.net
follow the link and click the green button to perform the speed test make sure you click in the right place as they have some other tools to check your system diagnostics, keep in mind this is a web-based application so if you are prompted to download something you can go ahead and cancel that.

Speedtest.net is a great resource to check your internet connection, when you're having connectivity problems or experiencing slowness downloading, uploading or browsing the internet. Run a speed test to see what your download and upload.

ad speeds are accurate with your current internet connection it should be pretty close around 60+ or higher of what they are promising to provide. Other things like other users on the same network or background applications that are connecting to the internet and downloading or uploading data.

Some of the applications that you want to look out for are file sharing applications like:
File sharing:
DropBox.com , Box.com
Any torrent applications
for example:  Utorrent, Bittorent and others...
picture sharing applications
for example: Shutterfly, snapfish
Also any cloud backup applications can cause your internet to run extremely slow.
These applications some times run quietly in the background, shutting them off in the task manager or changing the applications settings can great improve your connectivity issues.

My computer is running slow but has a good processor and plenty of RAM

Dell vistro 64-Bit Operating System

Windows 7 

4 GB RAM i7 

2 Hardrives

Computer was running extremely slow I tried adding some extra RAM but the PC wouldn't pick it up. I checked the processes and there was no unknown applications running so here are the steps I took to resolve this issue. 

I removed the 2 extra sticks of RAM in case they were corrupt since it seems that the PC was not able to identify them. 

I did a DELL system test and it did report some errors on the secondary hard drive. I ran a check disk and all seemed to check out ok. However I still went ahead and removed the second hard drive and everything seemed to go back to normal. 

I also did a disk defrag and a disk clean up, when I did a disk clean up there was a huge amount of system memory error logs and were taking up 230GB of space on the computer I cleaned that up and the computer when completely back to normal.

How can I check if a file or a running process has a virus?

Go to https://www.virustotal.com/ ​you will be able to upload the file for scanning right on the website or you can download the application, you can also check the curent running windows processes if you download the desktop application. It's a small application however it has several great uses. 

You can go to the website here:  Virus total official website