Booting and Program Crashing.

[Stav Kats]

So I was on holidays for 1 month but my PC was used daily by my sister and my father. Now, that I am back, I have noticed some things that upset me.

• First of all, my boot times are very slow, the screen stops where it says Starting Windows for 15-20 secs. I used to have 15 secs boot times, from hitting my power switch to loading chrome. I am running my OS from a SSD, the Corsair Force 3 120GB. Also my "shutting down times "have been even more slowed down. It used to shut down immediatelly, but now it takes forever.
• The second problem is that many programs have started to crash for no reason. Programs like Steam, Word, foobar2000 and some games.

I have defragged my HDD(not my SSD), I have checked for recent downloads, I scanned my system with Microsoft Security Essential and what opens in startup and it is all like they used to.

I didn't have any of these problems before my absence. Do you think it is temporary and it will be fixed by itself, or not?

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[Samdb]

Try using CCleaner to clean things up a little.

[Stav Kats]

Try using CCleaner to clean things up a little.

Still slow. Also when I open big files(for example my music folder) it takes huge amount of time to load. I mean I can see what is in the folder but I cannot access it. The Windows bar on top of the folder's window loads very slowly(I have windows 7).

[Samdb]

Still slow. Also when I open big files(for example my music folder) it takes huge amount of time to load. I mean I can see what is in the folder but I cannot access it. The Windows bar on top of the folder's window loads very slowly(I have windows 7).

Try scanning using MalwareBytes.

[Ssoele]

Try scanning using MalwareBytes.

 

Thanks for stealing my reply...

[Samdb]

Thanks for stealing my reply...

You told me to post it...

[Stav Kats]

Try scanning using MalwareBytes.

One program that it says it may be malicious is windows7.codec.pack.v4.0.0setup.

If I delete this will it cause any damage to my OS or not at all?

[Samdb]

Delete it if it says it's malicious then.

 

@Stav Kats

[YoYo155]

It's either memory being aggressively used by a software or the Disk is having trouble.

 

 

Testing the HDD - Hard Drive Diagnostic Procedure

[sof006]

I have a feeling they might of ended up downloading a virus. Scan and find the virus or reinstall windows. I don't let anyone touch my PC.

[Stav Kats]

I have a feeling they might of ended up downloading a virus. Scan and find the virus or reinstall windows. I don't let anyone touch my PC.

I also try not to let anybody else touch my baby but my PC is the only that works adequently. The other 3 PCs in my house use 1GB DDR2 and a Dual Core with an old old IDE HDD. Pretty crappy stuff. They boot in like 1-2mins and then they are all jerky and slow.

Thanks for the suggestion!

[Stav Kats]

Try scanning using MalwareBytes.

I have a feeling they might of ended up downloading a virus. Scan and find the virus or reinstall windows. I don't let anyone touch my PC.

It's either memory being aggressively used by a software or the Disk is having trouble.

 

 

Testing the HDD - Hard Drive Diagnostic Procedure

Thanks for stealing my reply...

So you all know, the problem is that my HDD is dying. I diagnosed it by testing its speed(5MB/s read and 50MB/s write) and when I disconnected it from the Mobo all the crashing and slow booting were fixed.

Thanks everyone for their time and help.

[YoYo155]

So you all know, the problem is that my HDD is dying. I diagnosed it by testing its speed(5MB/s read and 50MB/s write) and when I disconnected it from the Mobo all the crashing and slow booting were fixed.

Thanks everyone for their time and help.

Told ya! :P, please mark it as solved for future reference.

You're welcome .