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I recently switched from a AMD athlon x4 860k to a Intel Core I5-4460 and first couple of days everything was fine but now after a week my computer has slowed down. EX.)  when i try to launch steam it takes way longer then usual, trying to launch league, file explorer ect. Any advice will be greatly appreciated! 

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Are you using an HDD, cause that sounds like a hard drive problem.

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if your using a hard drive like DocSwag mentioned you should defragment it, and see if that changes anything. Windows has a built in tool to do this (dont do it on an SSD).

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9 minutes ago, lordhappyface said:

heres the catch, i have a total of 4 drives and all of them exept the windows one was recently formated, would i still need to defrag all of them or just the windows one?

 

just the windows one first .Also run hard disk sentinel or hdd health to check for bad sectors and stuff

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17 hours ago, lordhappyface said:

heres the catch, i have a total of 4 drives and all of them exept the windows one was recently formated, would i still need to defrag all of them or just the windows one?

 

As others have said, it's probably your hard drive. Check to see if it's fragmented at all. If it is, it could be that. However, I've looked at plenty of slow computers in my day, and I can't think of a single case in which it was *actually* fragmented at all.

 

I'd check your I/O speeds. If you're on Win8 or higher, Task Manager will report disk usage. If there are a lot of programs accessing the disk, that might be why. Look through what programs are using the disk and see if there are any that you can live without, either by uninstalling or just disallowing them to run in the background.

 

If that doesn't improve things, maybe it's time to look at putting an SSD in your rig.

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