slow performance

Hello. My dad gave me his laptop just to check an issue. His Laptop when first given to me check was constantly running high CPU when checking task manager with it running 100% and I couldn't identify what was making it do this. So a quick restart (off and back on) the laptop was doing the same...

Hello all, Since a week ago my File Share server has been slow to open the "root" folder. Opening a folder via the path in the explorer is immediate. Anyone with this problem? This only happens with Windows 10, when I try to access File Share through a Windows Server, it's immediate/normal...

I created a Windows 10 recovery drive on USB a while ago and I reckon I could create an updated version from ;media creation tool'. Can anyone tell me if I can then use this to install Windows 10 on a new PC when I stop using this 8 year old slow model? I have a product code for the original...

Help I'm encountering 100 percent disk problem as you can see in this picture I have tried everything to fix it like disabling sys main windows search and background and start-up apps I also did an antivirus scan but there were no threats detected then I try to run a dism command then I checked...

Hi, Sorry I cant seem to find a thread regarding malware.Just needed to get the prob solved as i have work files and software on my laptop,so am posting here intead.thank you Windows defender picked up the trojan named w32/Tiggre!plock,after i scanned the laptop as it was running extremely...

So, my Win10 Installation is pretty broken, but somehow still working... (I already used SFC /Scannow, it didn't do shit) (I want to know ways, without reinstalling Windows 10) Question: I have several problems with Windows 10, and I would like to know if there are any ways to scan and repair...

At times my computer runs slow. I even get message that memory is insufficient. When I copy a file from another computer on the n/w the copying becomes very slow. If I run anti-virus scan it displays no virus found. If I close a Word file and try to delete it I get a message File is open, but I...

When I Copy a file from another computer on the n/w the copying becomes slow. I can see the progress bar almost stopped for sometime. What can be the reason for this?

ASUS zn241IC Al in One PC runnign windows 10: a Friend texted me this a.m this picture it their BIOS screen on their ASUS all in one. They said the machine was acting really slow, she had clicked an icon to do something and "The little blue circle was spinning really really slow and it wasnt...

An elderly neighboor has a HP laptop that was managed mostly by her deceased husband. It has one Local account on it and she /we have the password full access to all their documents etc. She says the unit has become very slow, not sure why an i am starting to help her clean it up, backup all...

Can anyone help me with the installation of the Chrome browser on a Windows 7 SP1 with Internet Explorer desktop computer? I would like to try it but a year or so ago I installed Chrome and I had an awful time with my computer. It really slowed down and had mouse lag. I could not figure out what...

firefox-61.0 update … i had experienced browser slowing down to a crawl … ended up being adblock-plus addon … apparently, i had disabled one of the three filter-lists. as always, first thing one should try is disabling all addons. thought i'd end up having...

I am facing issues with windows firewall, I'm unable to connect to the wifi and it won't even show the available networks. When it connects to my router, it is very slow, it works fine when firewall is disabled. So when every I need to connect to the internet I need to disable firewall every...

Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD it insists its a SSD. My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order. Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not...

While I await a power supply for my Dell desktop, I have resurrected my HP laptop. There are a few items which I think I can delete but thought I'd check first, Cisco EAP-Fast module, Cisco LEAP module, Cisco PEAP module, Microsoft Visual C++ from 2005, (two of these), MSXML 4.0 SP2 (2 of...

so I fired up an old laptop with windows 8.1, because my other laptop has windows 10 and takes a day to bootup. OMG what happened to Windows 8? It has been about 6 hors and it still says completeing windows update. Up till 10 I was a loyal MS user, right back from the old MS DOS days on my XT...

A neighbough of mine has brought me a stricken laptop. She explained it had been running slow and after restarting the recovery screen appeared. At this stage a simple key press should initiate the process however the keyboard is unresponsive. Does anybody have any ideas how I could recover...

Especially when I right click a file. I get the rotating circle and sometimes timeout before the context menu opens. Sometimes I think there is something going on in background, but task manager doesn't show anything. Is there a utility that can showerverything running? I've been toold tm...

I have a relatively new asus-computer (i7-6700 HQ-CPU, 2,6 Ghz, 8 GB RAM, 64 Bit) + W 10 Home. Suddenly it works really slow, searching files, f.e on both of my external harddrives (each 1,8 TB / each 1,4 TB free). It finds results but sometimes it searches "forever"...?!? Wyh is that so and...

Hey everyone, I just switched over to windows the other day. My Macbook Air took a dump and i was not willing to spend $1000 on a new computer!! I went ahead and picked up a Lenovo 310-15ABR at Best Buy for $450. Its has all the specs i need. I'm only using it for school and the internet. I've...