Slow laptop?

[HavocXphere]

My laptop has been a slow lately & I'm not quite sure why.

Specifically things like the seek bar on VLC is slow. i.e. change the spot in the movie/audio track & it takes a good 2-3 seconds to get going again.

Its a HDD....haven't gotten round to SSDing it yet.

Started when C drive was 100% full...but hasn't gone away after I fixed that. (currently physical drive is 50% full, C 75%)

Defrag says its not fragmented.

90% sure its not a spyware etc issue.

Any ideas on whats causing it?

 

[faniebraai]

format... install linux

 

[faniebraai]

Running Windows 7?

How long ago have you re-installed it?

paste a screenshot in here of the list of installed programs

 

[HavocXphere]

8.1

Been about 3 months since I got it.

>paste a screenshot in here of the list of installed programs

Nothing new near the time of the slow down except Deluge & thats not running in the backgrounds afaik.

I just don't get why cleaning the drive & making sure its defragged didn't result in a recovery from full drive slowness...

 

[faniebraai]

8.1

Been about 3 months since I got it.

>paste a screenshot in here of the list of installed programs

Nothing new near the time of the slow down except Deluge & thats not running in the backgrounds afaik.

I just don't get why cleaning the drive & making sure its defragged didn't result in a recovery from full drive slowness...

how's disk usage, memory and cpu in task manager's performance tab?

 

[HavocXphere]

how's disk usage, memory and cpu in task manager's performance tab?

Task manager just took literally 5 seconds to load...but once it did...

disk 0% cpu 0% memory 4/8

Definitely feels like a disk issue though...

 

[semaphore]

Task manager just took literally 5 seconds to load...but once it did...

disk 0% cpu 0% memory 4/8

Definitely feels like a disk issue though...

A while back i had a similar slow down. I had a code repo that was constantly being scanned on changes, this repo had over half a million files in it. It turned out AVG was having a midlife crisis. When i excluded that folder i noticed a big difference. That was my case anyways.

 

[Rickster]

Hows the SMART status?

Recently done a full system AV scan?

CCcleaner?

 

[dabbler]

I have exactly the same problem with my laptop. I have masses of ram and harddisk space but everything I do has a 2 or 3 second delay. The other day I rebooted the thing and ended up with no bootable drive error. I shut the thing down completely and then it started normally. Time to do backups methinks.

 

[sajunky]

Boot from removable mediaa and run scan for delays on this drive. It will help to establish it is hardware or software issue.

 

[Wasabee!]

Get a SSD! They are cheap. Samsung or Crucial I would say.