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I have a computer that I’m working on… It has been painfully slow with just about everything that I do. The Resource Monitor shows that it’s at 100% most of the time. I did some diagnostic tests in the bios on the Hard Drive and it passed all the tests. It takes 5 minutes too boot up and I had it completely lock up on me while I was trying to download a small file. I was thinking it was the hard drive but the diagnostic test says otherwise. Any ideas on what might be causing this or what I can do to resolve it?

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check startup programs and Services also Virtual Memory settings

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He meant to check RAM usage as well. If the system only has 2-3GB, with Win x64, the hard drive will be doing a LOT of work. I’ve also noticed with Windows 10 that usage will jump to 90+% for absolutely no reason at all. It’s doing something in the background… but it doesn’t want to tell you what it is. It can sometimes take 10-15 minutes or more for things to ‘settle down’ and you can start operations without it taking forever to perform a task.

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I checked the startup programs and services also. It is also good on RAM.

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try http://www.tweaking.com/

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Use Process Monitor and Process Explorer to figure out what’s causing the disk utilization. They’re available for free from the SysInternals suite.

Here’s a good guide:

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Hello @RGee, thank you for your post and for the very helpful you have received from the other IT Pros. Do you mind providing the exact model of the computer and OS? Thank you.

@ryangee

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