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Post by ???Daniel on Jun 21, 2018 19:31:52 GMT
Hi. I use a HP laptop which is about 2 years old. Here's its info page:  It's running quite slowly with 100% disk used up most of the time. Here's a few screenshots. Could I please have some advice on how to fix this issue? If you'd like some more info I can give it. |
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jun 21, 2018 20:59:25 GMT
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Post by Super on Jun 21, 2018 23:02:53 GMT
Try going into the services manager and disabling superfetch. This solved the problem on my old laptop.
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Post by blackedout on Jun 21, 2018 23:13:14 GMT
Maybe you have too any programs on startup or programs running in the background that you don't know about.
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Post by _Windows on Jun 21, 2018 23:57:04 GMT
Your RAM usage is very high. It is possible that your PC is thrashing your HDD due to low RAM. |
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Post by kunochan on Jun 22, 2018 0:26:55 GMT
Try resetting it, either back up your data, wipe the hard drive and reinstalling windows, or reset without losing data.
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Post by ???Daniel on Jun 23, 2018 18:25:40 GMT
Hi everyone, thanks for the suggestions. I have disabled superfetch and then restarted but it seemed to make no difference. On task manager, I do have a load of processes running, and stopped some of the most resource-heavy ones. The disk remained at 100%. I don't really want to refresh windows, as I'm not sure this would actually solve the problem. _Windows my computer has 8GB ram, and it is rarely at maximum capacity. It's normally just at 60% or so. Is this still overloaded? Half way through writing this I noticed my disk had dropped to only 20% or so. I'll update this if it goes wrong again. Edit: I get small spikes of 100% or so, caused by "system" process. Is this normal? |
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jun 23, 2018 23:58:17 GMT
_Windows my computer has 8GB ram, and it is rarely at maximum capacity. It's normally just at 60% or so. Is this still overloaded? The RAM doesn't seem overloaded in your task manager screenshots either, but all applications visible there are still using an insane amount of disk, so there is a good chance the computer still deciding to thrash for some reason. For comparison, I opened my own task manager and looked at it for 60 seconds, and a single application exceeded 0.1MB/s exactly once. |
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Post by _Windows on Jun 24, 2018 0:26:18 GMT
_Windows my computer has 8GB ram, and it is rarely at maximum capacity. It's normally just at 60% or so. Is this still overloaded? The RAM doesn't seem overloaded in your task manager screenshots either, but all applications visible there are still using an insane amount of disk, so there is a good chance the computer still deciding to thrash for some reason. For comparison, I opened my own task manager and looked at it for 60 seconds, and a single application exceeded 0.1MB/s exactly once. Windows is known to act strangely when RAM is low even if it isn't out (one of many reasons why using Windows OS for a server is generally a bad idea). One of the screenshots shows 81% usage, which for Windows is high. I do know that a system that is thrashing can be sped up using ReadyBoost. You need a decent flash drive to do it with though. |
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Post by liam on Jun 24, 2018 0:29:00 GMT
Have you tried turning it off and back on again
Yeah but in all seriousness this happened to me a while ago, tbh I just got a new laptop but I did have quite a lot of random programs so might be that
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Post by ???Daniel on Jun 24, 2018 5:23:25 GMT
The RAM doesn't seem overloaded in your task manager screenshots either, but all applications visible there are still using an insane amount of disk, so there is a good chance the computer still deciding to thrash for some reason. For comparison, I opened my own task manager and looked at it for 60 seconds, and a single application exceeded 0.1MB/s exactly once. Windows is known to act strangely when RAM is low even if it isn't out (one of many reasons why using Windows OS for a server is generally a bad idea). One of the screenshots shows 81% usage, which for Windows is high. I do know that a system that is thrashing can be sped up using ReadyBoost. You need a decent flash drive to do it with though. By flash drive do you mean a USB memory stick? I've got an almost empty 8gb usb 2.0 one, would that do? |
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Post by _Windows on Jun 24, 2018 11:43:27 GMT
Windows is known to act strangely when RAM is low even if it isn't out (one of many reasons why using Windows OS for a server is generally a bad idea). One of the screenshots shows 81% usage, which for Windows is high. I do know that a system that is thrashing can be sped up using ReadyBoost. You need a decent flash drive to do it with though. By flash drive do you mean a USB memory stick? I've got an almost empty 8gb usb 2.0 one, would that do? Yes it would. You might have to reformat it with a different allocation unit size or fiulesystem to get Windows to see it as acceptable performance for ReadyBoost though. |
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Post by StevenNL2000 on Jun 24, 2018 11:47:41 GMT
Windows is known to act strangely when RAM is low even if it isn't out (one of many reasons why using Windows OS for a server is generally a bad idea). One of the screenshots shows 81% usage, which for Windows is high. I do know that a system that is thrashing can be sped up using ReadyBoost. You need a decent flash drive to do it with though. By flash drive do you mean a USB memory stick? I've got an almost empty 8gb usb 2.0 one, would that do? You can't actually use ReadyBoost because you disabled SuperFetch. A USB stick is fine as long as it is reasonably fast, but keep in mind that you will have to keep it plugged in constantly to benefit from it, which may not be ideal for a laptop. |
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Post by _Windows on Jun 24, 2018 12:11:26 GMT
By flash drive do you mean a USB memory stick? I've got an almost empty 8gb usb 2.0 one, would that do? You can't actually use ReadyBoost because you disabled SuperFetch. A USB stick is fine as long as it is reasonably fast, but keep in mind that you will have to keep it plugged in constantly to benefit from it, which may not be ideal for a laptop. Disabling SuperFetch is a bad idea unless you have a specific reason to do so. ???Daniel if it didn't solve your issue you should re-enable it. Also, you can try doing a refresh on your Windows install that will reinstall Windows without removing your files. You will need to reinstall stuff though. |
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