Windows 10 1809 lagging

[pmudzengi]

Hey guys. I have an HP ProDesk 600 G1 sff running Windows 10 1809 on 8GB of ram, 500 GB Western Digital @ 7200 hdd, i5-4570 CPU. However Windows runs slower than ever. I later realized that the disk is always operating at 100%. I'm trying to disable some services but it's not working and it's pain staking to navigate around windows as it is extremely slow. How can I reduce the disk usage and get my pc running smoothly?

[Toyota AE86]

Have you chacked if the disk is not damaged?

 

[pmudzengi]

How can I do that?

[Turtle Rig]

4 minutes ago, Amforev said:

Have you chacked if the disk is not damaged?

 

To counter act that point, You really do need a SSD as it is night and day difference  Also in power options select performance mode. for both graphics card and for winblows.

[Toyota AE86]

For example by using Cristal Disk info.

https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/70295/CrystalDiskInfo8_0_0.exe/

[pmudzengi]

10 minutes ago, Amforev said:

For example by using Cristal Disk info.

https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/70295/CrystalDiskInfo8_0_0.exe/

This machine is slow, doing this will take some time, if it will be able to launch the app.

[Toyota AE86]

1 minute ago, pmudzengi said:

This machine is slow, doing this will take some time, if it will be able to launch the app.

You probably think that this file is computer virus are not you?

 

[Constantin]

21 minutes ago, Turtle Rig said:

To counter act that point, You really do need a SSD as it is night and day difference  Also in power options select performance mode. for both graphics card and for winblows.

This is irrelevant and not helping OP's problem!

[Constantin]

How much empty space does the disk have?

Right click on the disk and clean it. Remove also old windows upgrade log files

 

[Turtle Rig]

2 minutes ago, Constantin said:

This is irrelevant and not helping OP's problem!

True, just trying to gain him some speed.  And SSD is the way to go for a nice boost.  The only thing that will save a Core 2 CPU is SSD. Other then that its a POS garbage.

[pmudzengi]

22 minutes ago, Amforev said:

You probably think that this file is computer virus are not you?

 

Not at all, the computer is virtually unusable. It take about a minute to open file explorer and even longer to run other programs.

 

[pmudzengi]

14 minutes ago, Constantin said:

How much empty space does the disk have?

Right click on the disk and clean it. Remove also old windows upgrade log files

 

It's quite empty right now

[CustomEnchants]

Concider getting a cheap ssd and reinstalling Windows on it.

Windows on hdds even new can have rather slow performance.

[pmudzengi]

5 minutes ago, CustomEnchants said:

Concider getting a cheap ssd and reinstalling Windows on it.

Windows on hdds even new can have rather slow performance.

You are right, because I can't stand this

[Mister Woof]

is windows defender maybe doing a scan?

 

try this

 

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/100-disk-usage-windows-10-fixed/

[pmudzengi]

22 minutes ago, Plutosaurus said:

is windows defender maybe doing a scan?

 

try this

 

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/100-disk-usage-windows-10-fixed/

Not at all

[fargonaz]

It's updating... maybe

[pmudzengi]

Hey guys. I ended up just resetting the computer. It works great now. Thanks for your support.