I am out of ideas on how to determine the cause of my constantly glowing disk activity light and extremely sluggish computer and hope you can offer suggestions as to what to do next short of re-installing Windows.
The problem disappears when I safe boot (any/all flavors). The problem remains when I clean boot. I've even force-terminated services/processes that survive the clean boot.
I ran sfc and chkdks and neither found any errors. Resmon shows virtually no disk, cpu, and memory activity after the machine settles down from boot-up. Zero page faults. I've run various virus and malware scans in hopes of finding a self-hiding process or root kit but nothing has been detected.
Configuration: Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit on Acer 5750 with i7-2630QM and 8GB memory
Perhaps there is a crazy driver that is gets skipped or substituted when booting in safe mode? How might I determine what is different between the safe boot and clean boot environments besides the video drivers?
I'm really at my wits-end and would appreciate any ideas you might have on how to proceed. Many thanks!
The problem disappears when I safe boot (any/all flavors). The problem remains when I clean boot. I've even force-terminated services/processes that survive the clean boot.
I ran sfc and chkdks and neither found any errors. Resmon shows virtually no disk, cpu, and memory activity after the machine settles down from boot-up. Zero page faults. I've run various virus and malware scans in hopes of finding a self-hiding process or root kit but nothing has been detected.
Configuration: Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit on Acer 5750 with i7-2630QM and 8GB memory
Perhaps there is a crazy driver that is gets skipped or substituted when booting in safe mode? How might I determine what is different between the safe boot and clean boot environments besides the video drivers?
I'm really at my wits-end and would appreciate any ideas you might have on how to proceed. Many thanks!
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