Greetings, I bought a new hard disk(Toshiba 1tb) to replace my 11 year old WD 160gb that finally started to show its age. Windows startup is decent, but everything I do on PC responds slowly most of the time and I see HD light constantly flickering/on. Lets say I try to use start button on Win 10,it will take almost 10 seconds to show it sometimes and it will sometimes even say that it is not responding,same with browsing the net,opening files and so on. I checked task manager and it shows hard disk is 100% most of the time but there is no "junk" tasks that are hogging the hard disk. The processes that are using hard disk are some ordinary like chrome,which in the time of writing is using 0.1 mb/s of disk speed but it is show that it is using 85% of the disk.If I close chrome,then "System" will also use 0.1 mb/s of speed but then that will use 100% of disk.I also tried to use Resource monitor and it is showing that there is a lot of processes in the queue,and most of them are "svchost.exe".I tried to benchmark the hard disk and it has a read of 180mb/s.I tried to turn off all those services that have been mentioned on the forum like Superfetch but there is no difference.
New hard disk constantly loading and pc very slow
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Neur0nauT
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Could be a large update running in the background. If you find the svchost, then right-click on it and select Goto Service(s)
Look down this list and you will see several services that have been highlighted. Check to see if the service: WUAUSERV is highlighted....if so, then Windows Update is running in the background, and you probably need to let it finish, or reboot.
It might be best for you to invest in a small 160GB SSD drive to which you can install your OS onto and use this as the primary boot drive, then utilise your 1TB drive as a secondary for other storage and program installs. Things should speed up greatly then.
Look down this list and you will see several services that have been highlighted. Check to see if the service: WUAUSERV is highlighted....if so, then Windows Update is running in the background, and you probably need to let it finish, or reboot.
It might be best for you to invest in a small 160GB SSD drive to which you can install your OS onto and use this as the primary boot drive, then utilise your 1TB drive as a secondary for other storage and program installs. Things should speed up greatly then.
You are right, when I click on "Service Host:Local System" it will show that Windows update is running.In resource monitor,after I expanded it from Windowed to "full screen" now it show detailed info about those 50-60 svchost.exe processes,and they are using the files in "Software distribution" folder in Windows directory.
I can't remember if there is a 3rd-party utility geek way to convert W10's automatic update into a W10 notify-when-updates-available / I-decide-what-to-download & install. I have used that notify/I decide method From Windows 95 - Windows 7.
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