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Ever since i upgraded to Windows 8.1 it seems slower than Windows 7 did and it seems to hang allot. Right now I'm cleaning the temporary Windows update files and its only about 1GB but it's taking forever and it's on my SSD. Also sometimes in the processes tab in task manager it shows my CPU usage at 100% but when i go to the graph view it isn't, I don't know why it's like that or if thats normal on Windows 8.1.

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Ever since i upgraded to Windows 8.1 it seems slower than Windows 7 did and it seems to hang allot. Right now I'm cleaning the temporary Windows update files and its only about 1GB but it's taking forever and it's on my SSD. Also sometimes in the processes tab in task manager it shows my CPU usage at 100% but when i go to the graph view it isn't, I don't know why it's like that or if thats normal on Windows 8.1.

Em, no... Try completely wipe ur ssd and do 'clean install'. Should be fine.

Or maybe it's just a virus.

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Em, no... Try completely wipe ur ssd and do 'clean install'. Should be fine.

Or maybe it's just a virus.

I don't have any viruses and i just installed Windows 8.1 not even a week ago.

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8.1 is a mess and has a learning curve .

I don't know what's causing your problem .

I'll give you a couple bits of advice though .

1- Go into settings and set up system restore . It's not enabled to start .

2- System Refresh will remove all second party software that is not installed through the stupid app store .

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I don't have any viruses and i just installed Windows 8.1 not even a week ago.

And u shouldn't, because win8 has a good built-in antivirus.

Anyways, try clean install, there may not be something else (hardware problems, I mean).

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8.1 is a mess and has a learning curve .

I don't know what's causing your problem .

I'll give you a couple bits of advice though .

1- Go into settings and set up system restore . It's not enabled to start .

2- System Refresh will remove all second party software that is not installed through the stupid app store .

I'll look into that. i'm very familiar with Windows 7 but theres allot of changes in Windows 8.1 that I haven't quite figured out yet.

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First: *** kind of SSD you have?

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