Specs:
HD 7970
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM
16GB DDR3 RAM
FX-6350
Gigabyte 970a-ds3p
Windows 10 64-bit
A friend of mine dropped off his pc and claimed it took forever to boot. I took a look at it and noticed that the boot time was quite long (~7 minutes) and applications were taking equally long to open (~3 minutes before being able to use any app). Using the search bar on the windows taskbar has also become damn near impossible due to the ridiculous time it takes to input any characters.
Here's what I've attempted:
- Ran Zemana and Malwarebytes, no anomalies were found.
- Went in cmd and ran the ol' net.exe stop "Windows search", net.exe stop superfetch, chkdsk.exe /f /r combo
So far I've been able to reduce his boot time to 40-50 seconds, but opening and running applications is still a 3-5 minute affair. The search bar is still unusable due to the massive delay between entering a character and having it register. Anyone have any ideas?