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poor performance win10 and howto improve it
I have an HP laptop 4GB with intel core M5Y10c 0.80GHz 1.00GHz and windows 10 x64
The performance is really poor and also the UI is slow and unreliable.
I've tried to disable useless characteristics ...
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How to log all file access in Windows before login?
I am trying to troubleshoot/fix a 30 minute boot time (i.e., the time between power being applied
and the login screen appearing). All diagnostics (CPU, HDD, RAM) seem fine, so I simply suspect
a bug ...
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What is the UNCServer process running on my WIndows 10 Laptop?
I have a Lenovo i5 Laptop. There is always a UNCServer process running. Is there some way to identify what that process is doing? Some details of my laptop (from System info):
Windows 10 Home Build ...
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Test whether sluggish Win 10 laptop is due to SSD speed reduction due to getting full
I have a Dell Win 10 Laptop with an SSD and I have noticed its responsiveness has slowed down over the past few months. Things like opening files, saving files etc. are slower than they used to be on ...
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Extremely slow HDD speeds (< 1 Mib/s)
Update: I mistakenly thought it was my SSD that was acting up, but it's actually my HDD. I have corrected everything below.
Update: This HDD is 18 years old. I guess it's a bit dumb of me to even ...
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I got another unknown hard drive called \\? \ Volume {1c8475c2-0000-0000-0000-100000000000} \. How do you know if it's a virus?
these are system properties there is no hard disk
and this is disk optimization and here it is displayed
screenshot of Disk Management
I searched the Internet for what this disk might be, but did not ...
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Windows 10 updates render laptop unresponsive and HDD 100% with average response time 1s+
Lenovo laptop with Intel i7 7700HQ, 24 GB RAM, 2TB 5400 HDD(OS hard and Data, 400 GB used only), 1 TB 970 EVO NVMe SSD(for work, 500 GB used), 1060 6GB MaxQ, Windows 10 Pro licensed, bought in 2018.
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Windows 10 massive performance drop after copying files- why?
In preparation for getting a new PC, I copied all my important files from my current PC's hard drive to a USB-connected hard drive. I let this process run overnight, and about an hour after it ...
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1 month old hdd acting weirdly, random 100% disk usage
I have a brand new 4TB Seagate Barracuda HDD that I bought barely 4 weeks ago that seems to act weirdly since a few days.
I noticed that whenever theres any kind of activity(writing/reading)on the HDD,...
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Windows 10 fresh install is extremely slow
I was trying to upgrade an HP 15-F009WM notebook that was running slowly, and now it became twice slowly.
It had a WD 320GB SATA HDD and 4GB RAM. After replacing the HDD with a Kingston 120GB SSD and ...
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Why am I getting 100% disk usage on Windows 10, I've tried other solutions
How do I stop my disk usage being at 100% on Windows 10? Below is what I've tried
Changing Link Storage Technology in Intel Rapid Storage to be off
Restarting or Disabling Windows Search service
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Other drive loads after minutes
After my Windows 10 starts up, my non-system HDD (WDC WD5000AZRX-00L4HB0) takes a few minutes to load. Until that, my shortcuts there are white, and if I try to open the drive in win explorer, it ...
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Windows 10 slow disc access (resolved)
I'm a Win 7 user, so Win 10 is all new to me. I've been upgrading a laptop for a friend and they use Windows 10. What I noticed is the HDD access is really slow.
Here are some info:
It is a HP Envy 15 ...
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Slow disk/folder access from Explorer in Win 10 ver 2004 (but not in 1903); any known workarounds?
Explorer entering a USB HDD folder with (approx.) 15,000 items takes 3-4 seconds with Win 10 ver 1903. The same folder takes literally 5 minutes with Win 10 ver 2004. (I have parallel Windows ...
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Disk Optimization not available in Disk Defrag of Windows 10
I have 2 SSDs that have the Disk Optimization not available error.
Tried everything with defrag commands and SATA/motherboard drivers. Nothing worked.
I wanted to share how I fixed this.
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Do apps installed on HDD run slower than if installed on SSD?
I have an Acer Aspire V Nitro Black Edition Laptop. It has a 256Gb SSD unit, where Windows 10 is installed, and a 1Tb HDD for data storage. After installing some software into the default Program Data ...
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SSD NVMe drop in write speed
I bought a Corsair Force MP510 NVMe SSD 480 Go 4 months ago, it was such a breeze with significant high read/write speed and the benchmark was as announced in CrystalDiskMark7 (I had 3,3GB/s (3.5 in ...
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Hard drive usage/latency skyrocketing for no apparent reason?
I am running Windows 10 Home Edition on a Gigabyte Aorus motherboard. I have a Western Digital Blue 4TB spinning hard drive (connected with SATA) which seems to be functioning incorrectly.
In my ...
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How do I measure the time taken for Samsung's Intelligent TurboWrite buffer to be empty again?
I have a 1 TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD which is Samsung's QLC NAND SSD offering.
It has an SLC cache used as a buffer during writes and I observed speeds of upto 520 MB/s for up to 10 gigabytes of ...
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Slow Hard Disk Response Time
I have a laptop computer running Windows 10. The performance has become unbearable.
Looking at Task Manager, I can see that the Average Response Time sometimes gets over 450 ms, and the Active Time ...
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Windows 10 - Slow shutdown and restart / how to read Windows Performance Analyzer results
In trying to revive an old laptop (Asus N56VZ) so my brother can use it for school, I installed an SSD where the HDD used to be, to speed it up. True enough, the general speed of the laptop increased ...
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Is there a way to improve chkdsk performance in HDD?
I have a system which has 8 GB of RAM. While running chkdsk it takes quite a bit of time to complete. This is for external HDD. I know there are two options -
Have an SSD, that should improve ...
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Just added second NVMe SSD - primary drive is still HDD - Optimizing Windows 10
I just purchased a new Lenovo E485 laptop that came with a primary 500 GB 7200 RPM HDD with Windows installed. I bought a NVMe SSD and installed it and everything works fine. Strangely, a SSD was not ...
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Windows 10 CMD responds extremely slow
My command line is so slow. I mean even ruby -v takes 10-13 seconds to return version and more complex commands like running rails s is a pain.
I tried chkdsk and no problem found.
Tried to have ...
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HDD 100% disk usage on idle but 0% usage on SMART scan
Recently I got a new internal HDD ( replaced old one which had bad sectors ) for my HP Pavilion au003tx laptop and it has been giving me micro-stutters and random freezes.
Even playing a 720p video ...
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Slow IO Operations but Benchmark Says SSD Fast
I have a laptop (HP ENVY x360) that is only a year old. It has 16GB of RAM, an Intel-i7 7500u 7th Gen, and a Samsung PCI Express 512GB SSD. When I read/write to the drive, it hangs for a second or two ...
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Testing Hard Drive Performance [closed]
I am trying to compare performance of several hard drives in my current system, and downloaded performance test 9.0 to try to run some comparisons. Things were going well until I ran the test on a ...
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Hard drive speed is slow only when booting from it
Since I felt that my Windows 10 system wasn’t performing at its max, I decided to check the speed of the 3 drives in my machine with HD Tune. What I found out was that the system drive’s speed is ...
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Sporadic extremly slow read speed on hard disk
For some time I have a sporadic issue with my hard disk, showing up in the form of extremely slow access time (~200 ms according to Windows) and read speed (~ 1 MB/sec). This holds even for sequential ...
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Periodical performance drops and high HDD usage Windows10
Usually my system performs fine. However, periodically, there are temporary performance drops. Basically the Task Manager shows 100% HDD usage and the culprits invariably turn out to be system related ...