Posts by George Wood69

Andrew Peterson2 said:Honestly, you should just go through with a hard reset or hit the recovery option. The whole thing is pretty much automated, and you can usually tell it not to wipe your old files—but for heaven's sake, make a backup first... just to be safe. It’ll save you a massive headache and hopefully finally kill off that bug once and for all.

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I hear you, though. I've tried everything under the sun and nothing worked. Eventually, I realized the OS has to be set to English for it to actually function properly. If you try running it in American English settings when the system expects something else, that's exactly when this mess happens.

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I tried booting into Safe Mode—works perfectly there—but as soon as I switch back to normal mode, the issue pops right back up.

Cleared out everything from BagMRU, though there wasn't anything in Bags to begin with.
Sadly, no luck here—zero points. It's still doing the exact same thing. It pops up for a second or two and then just vanishes.
Did you actually get it to work on your end?

Hey there!
Whenever I try to open the Control Panel on Windows 10, it pops up for a split second and then just vanishes—poof.
Has anyone else run into this glitch, and does anyone know a quick fix?

Thanks for all the advice. If my daughter starts getting serious about using Adobe Photoshop and stuff like that, I’ve still got time to upgrade—and hopefully, her games will run just fine even on lower settings 👍

Megan Ruiz13 said:Here’s my experience. I added another 8 gigs of DDR3 x4gb last week, so I’m sitting at 4x4 now, but honestly? No real difference. Except when I play Call of Duty: Black Ops 3—that game eats about 11 gigs of RAM and devours all my VRAM at 1080p.

Now I can actually crank everything up to max settings 😁

Bottom line: there's no performance boost, which makes sense if you actually understand how RAM works.

The headache only starts if you're running memory-heavy apps without enough capacity. Everything starts stuttering, the whole system drags, and it begins using the hard drive as virtual memory instead of actual RAM. That’s when things get ugly.

You can throw more RAM at a machine and nothing will change performance-wise. For example, any game that ran fine on 8 gigs is still going to run just fine with 16.

Generally, you only upgrade past 8 gigs if you're doing video editing or other heavy lifting. Apps that need a lot of "room" to breathe.

For now, 8 gigs is plenty for gaming. You might run into an occasional title that hogs more, but it's rare and usually depends on your settings. Like that COD Black Ops 3. It ran totally fine on 8 gigs if I kept textures on High instead of Ultra; I think total usage was around 7.5 gigs between the game and the OS. On Ultra, though, it jumps over 11 gigs and wipes out your VRAM.

But like I said, that's the exception, not the rule.

Got it. Thanks for breaking it down. Basically, don't waste money on extra RAM unless you really need it.

Larry Ortiz5 said:So, what kind of graphics card are you running these days?

I've got an NVIDIA GeForce GTX equivalent. It's nothing special—was actually pretty decent about four years ago.

It’s not really a huge deal—I just have a chance to snag an identical DDR3 x4gb kit for a steal, so I was wondering if it would actually make a difference. As far as gaming goes, I know I'd probably need to pick up a beefier GPU if I wanted to run those newer titles on high or ultra settings anyway.

If there’s a 120GB SSD for the OS and a 1TB HDD for storage

This is a four-year-old gaming PC. Aside from gaming, she uses it for pretty much everything—surfing the web, streaming movies and shows, and even some light schoolwork for her web design classes where she runs a few specific apps.

Would I see any actual benefit if I upgraded the RAM on my PC? I'm sitting at 8GB right now on Windows 10.