Whole system performance seems sluggish

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Dylzan

Dylzan

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Specs: i5 3470 3.2 GHz
Kingston HyperX Genesis 1600MHz
Nvidia Geforce GTX 660
500GB Seagate Barracuda HDD 7200rpm
Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.

I've noticed that the performance of my system seems to be not up to the standard it should really be for the specs. Eg 3 minute boot times, followed by 5 minute waiting times to open up programs like Steam or Google Chrome. So, I'm wondering what I can do to speed up its performance. Thanks.
 
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After your slow bootup for few minutes your applications are slow, but its okay after that? There could be much things booting up so disable a things or few in Msconfig, and as i and SayKen said, CHECK FOR VIRUSES, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK. It may slip trough security and set itself to boot at startup, you can just go to windows updates and disable them, just search on it, i have windows 8.1 and on its installation i disabled it right away, huge performance boost :D Use defragmenter and registry cleaner from IoBit or already Windows built-in tools, since everything after your extremely slow boot is okay, than you might not have viruses, but you could have faulty or something faulty on hard drive. Hope this helps :D
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MarthiniL

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WowowowowowowowowowWOW! 5 minute waiting times to open up programs? You must have a virus in your computer, since hard drive isn't slow, how much ram do you have? That is really weird, try scanning for viruses and doing complete reinstall of windows, SOMETHING REALLY ISN'T RIGHT.
 
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latest drivers installed?
did the stress test to check for faulty pieces?
any software in-correction, bios wrong setting or windows entry data modification?
sometimes the problem lies with windows updates or hdd being faulty (believe me they add so many crappy weak and non sense updates for windows 7 for a while that you wish to avoid them)
check for any bots too or browser add ons that make use of your pc performance for some losers to mine bitcoins..
has the pc been faulty since beginning or just happened in a flash?
 
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a virus will eat a programs running performance so I don't think it is the case.
if it only takes long to load bots or windows crap may be the issue.
but if not only does it take long to open a program but it offers weak performance in running it or barely managing to play a game then the virus or idiotic add on may be the huge problem.
 
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then windows is the problem here. check for corrupted files and errors messing up with your system.
windows 7 update made my laptop start with a black screen for 5 minutes after log in.
 
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MarthiniL

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After your slow bootup for few minutes your applications are slow, but its okay after that? There could be much things booting up so disable a things or few in Msconfig, and as i and SayKen said, CHECK FOR VIRUSES, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK. It may slip trough security and set itself to boot at startup, you can just go to windows updates and disable them, just search on it, i have windows 8.1 and on its installation i disabled it right away, huge performance boost :D Use defragmenter and registry cleaner from IoBit or already Windows built-in tools, since everything after your extremely slow boot is okay, than you might not have viruses, but you could have faulty or something faulty on hard drive. Hope this helps :D
 
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Glad I and SayKen solved your problems :D
 
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