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What Kind of Problem Is It?
I Can’t Shut Down My PC
Have you checked that... How
ThePC didnot hangwhenyou triedtoshut it
down
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• Ifyoucan’tshutdownandrestartthePCnormally,
press in the power button for 5 seconds. The PC
willshutdown.Notethat anyunsaveddatawillbe
lost.
My PC Has Become Slow
Have you checked that... How
You arenot running toomany applications at
thesametime
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1 Close any unused applications and check
whether the PC’s performance improves.
You have not filled your hard drive with too
much data
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1 Click on the letter corresponding to your PC’s
hard drive in W
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of the Explorer window.
2 Remove or back up any unwanted files.
3 Compress any files you do not often have to
access with a file compression utility.
You are not storing large numbers of
unnecessary temporary files on your PC
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check your system for files you can safely delete.
For more information on optimizing PC performance, refer to the PC’s online HP Brio Center
Is My Problem Hardware or Software Related?
Have you checked that... How
Your PC’s hardware is functioning normally.
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• Run HP e-DiagTools. Refer to page 42.