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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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, ...
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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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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: ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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....
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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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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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How do I Uninstall/Disable unnecessary Microsoft applications of Windows 10?
My university prohibits me using Windows Cloud storage and several its functions in Windows 10 Enterprise because it stores passwords in the cloud, prohibiting EU security legislation. I cannot ...
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Win 10 - HDD is unbearably slow
Since the upgrade from Win8.1 to Win10, the HDD of my laptop became unbearably slow. Please look at these transfer speeds:
0.3MB/sec????? Floppy drives had such a transfer rate. :)
The laptop is ...
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Load Dialog disk access slowdown on Windows 10
TL;DR my hard drive combination is causing load dialogs to take ~6 seconds to load, which is also confirmed via code, and I can't find any relief.
I had Windows 7 for a long time, ignoring 8 entirely....
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If I get a second SSD will there be a performance change by moving the operating system?
I have my OS on an SSD with a HDD storage drive as a secondary.
I've had the SSD for about half a year now, and it is starting to get full.
If I get a second SSD will there be a performance boost ...
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