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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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