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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. ...
