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Performance Issues With HDD C Drive

I have been experiencing performance drains problems with my HDD that is running windows. When my disk usage is high for that particular drive, most apps stop responding and my cursor will freeze. ...
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4 votes
0 answers
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Extremely high modified memory usage and pages won't flush

My Lenovo Y50-70 machine suffers of extremely poor performance lately. I'm disturbed by some memory-related issues. The machine has 8gb RAM and the pagefile size is currently 24gb ("Autmomatically ...
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1 vote
0 answers
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Deleting files is very slow in one particular folder

My laptop has two SSD drives: C: - m.2 0.5TB D: - 2.5" 1TB Generally they work fine, at blinding speeds compared to a spinning platter disk. However, there is one folder, C:\temp, which is super ...
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Asus windows 10 performance very slowly laptop and browsing very slowly

I'm using windows10 asus laptop i fed of this if i opened any software... it takes time to opened 2 min i'm getting angry with this.. i cleared browsing history caches and all but it will happen ...
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0 votes
2 answers
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Laptop is running very slow. Morbidly slow

I bought my laptop 3 years ago and never had an issue with it. It’s a 2014 ASUS X550LD with Windows 10 Professional powered by a 'staggering' 2 Cores-4 Threads Intel Core i7-4510U 2.00GHz (up to 3....
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284 views

Whole PC suddenly running slowly

I recently played a game requiring a ton of VRAM, which sometimes causes crashes. Which until now has been fine, the most recent crash caused my PC to run insanely slow, opening any applications, ...
Fractus's user avatar
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0 answers
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Even a Vanilla barely used Windows 10 has very high Disk usage upon startup/return from standby [duplicate]

Got a new Asus laptop with Windows 10 is always getting pounded by Disk usage = 100% when starting, booting, and then at various points of the day. I reformatted my windows 10 machine to try to fix ...
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-3 votes
1 answer
47 views

My Desktop Performance issue [closed]

My desktop computer specification is Processor: AMD FX 8320 Motherboard: Asus M5A97 RAM: Kingston HyperX 16 GB (8*2) HD: 1TB WD Black Graphics Card: 2GB Saphire 5450 SMPS: Cooler Master 650W OS: ...
InTech's user avatar
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1 vote
4 answers
9k views

Windows 10 - Task Manager Says Disk Is At 100% Usage

OS: Windows 10 (Pre-Installed) RAM: 8GB Storage: 500GB free Processor: i5 Disk Type: Hard Drive I have had Windows 10 for over a year now and it has been fine (a part from corruption about 6 ...
Woafer's user avatar
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10 votes
7 answers
176k views

Hard disk suddenly is extremely slow

Edit: New discovery! It seems there is something about idling that's getting to it. If I load a program immediately as after the OS is finished loading the speed is perfect and phenomenal, but if I ...
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0 votes
1 answer
267 views

Raid 0 Performance Decreased

I was trying to understand the performance benefits of RAID. I created 4 virtual disks in Windows 10 (10 GB each). I then set up 2 of them as Stripped volumes and the other 2 as spanned volumes. Now I ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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How do I make sure Windows 10 is using SSHD?

I have an SSHD with 14GB SSD in it. How do I benefit from this? Should I use the SSD for caching? Below are screenshots of disk management & BIOS.
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1 vote
4 answers
9k views

New hybrid drive (Seagate Desktop SHDD) suddenly is slowing down.

I have a two months old 2TB Seagate Desktop SSHD. I’m running this SSHD as a secondary drive (have an SSD running as boot), being a "backup" drive. I've created two partitions with it: one with 1....
user1231561's user avatar
26 votes
5 answers
115k views

my windows 10 pc got really slow although CPU and memory usage is fine. what else can I do?

since two weeks my windows 10 pc got really slow, and I have no idea why. I can still do everything, but everything takes much longer to a degree that I'm struggling to get my school work done. ...
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0 votes
0 answers
1k views

Windows 10 100% Disk usage with less that 15 MB/s

I have the Lenovo Y70-70. 4th gen i7, nvida gtx 960, 16 GB RAM, and a 1tb hybrid drive, so I know it can be faster. The problem is that the Disk usage regularly maxes out, and makes the computer lag. ...
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