PC slow after update

[Rick101]

Wondering if anyone can give me any guidance.

PC very slow after windows update. Particularly on startup.

Running task manager I can see under Performance that Disk 0 (c is at either 99 or 100%
Guessing thats a problem.

C: properties shows 385GB used of 465Gb capacity.

Hoping to replace PC in next 3 to 4 months anyway but much I can do in the meantime?


Thanks

[Rick101]

Hi,

Woke computer from 'sleep' this morning and disk use is right down again, mostly under 10%.

Will do a restart and see how the performance is.

Thanks

[Rick101]

okay. After restart. Still somewhat slow.

1st thing i opened was Task manager and just got a blank box with not responding for a few moments.
Just after it loading





Then i opened Chrome, again a white screen for a few moments




Dropbox seems to be taking a bit up. Now a few min after starting disk is back to 6-10%
Antimalware and the Superfetch thing seem to be taking a bit too.
Only other thing I noticed odd was that a few say 32bit when I'm running 64 bit. Not sure if that makes a difference.

Only extra change I made last night was going into the MSConfig and changing start processors from 1 to 4. Not sure if that was a good idea but thought I'd give it a try.

Edited by Rick101 on Friday 28th April 07:34

[Rick101]

I'm thinking there might be a RAM issue.

It shows as 8GB as in the above photos but constantly getting memory low issues and unable to run more than 3 tabs in chrome. the task manager shows 2.5-3GB being used so should be plenty spare.

Edit - Have run the Windows memory Diagnostic and it come back clear, no issues.

'The Windows Memory Diagnostic tested the computer's memory and detected no errors'

Edited by Rick101 on Wednesday 3rd May 14:58

[Rick101]

Done a search but can't quite work out how to check handles from the Task Manager.
Can you advise? I'm on Windows 10.

Currently with this page and Task manager running
CPU 11%
memory 37%

[Rick101]

Handles

System 2812
Dropbox 2256
Chrome 1656
explorer 1562
lsass 1193
svchost 1053

The rest under 1000

[Rick101]

Thanks

Paged Pool 447MB
non paged 133MB

Update speed I have options of Pause/Low/Med/High - I've changed to High

Not sure how to add counters to performance page??

[Rick101]

Thanks will give it a try. Have paused then excited using the little up arrow apps box on the RH side of the taskbar.
Have also gone to Task Manager / Startup and changed status to Disabled for Dropbox and Dropbox update.

[Rick101]

Killing Dropbox seems to have made a big improvement. I can certainly live with it live this for a few more months. Hopefully I won't have any more problems.

Thanks

[Rick101]

GRR,

Similar problems again!


Last couple eo times I've woken the PC up from sleep I've instantly had a 'Your computer is low on memory' message. My background has reverted to black and I struggle to use Chrome with regular shutdowns.

There was a massive Disk load initially at 100%, System using the most. Memory shows as 25%

I have no idea what can be doing this. All the stuff in the processes/handles area seems to be required stuff, nothing I wouldn't shutdown without advice.

[Rick101]

Will check if it happens again.

Have disabled a couple more things from the startup section of task manager.

Have followed advice on here and done #1 and #2 - http://www.deskdecode.com/antimalware-service-exec...
and changed some of the Windows Defender settings.



Been looking at PC's at CCL. Hopefully I will be a lot closer to buying by next month.
Thinking something like this.
https://www.cclonline.com/pc/gaming-pcs/horizon/cc...

[Rick101]

Usually sleep, shut down prob once a week.