Hi all,
My laptop has been progressively getting worse with its responsiveness after startup. Icons take ages to load on the desktop, programs launched are lagged or sometimes fail to respond. The culprit is 100% disk usage that lasts for almost 5 minutes after a boot. Unfortunately, this disk access seems to be spread randomly among multiple programs and services, meaning I can't isolate what specifically is causing these massive spikes that are crippling my computer after startup.
Things I've tried:
All the latest Windows updates as of December 10th.
Full scan with Malware-Bytes detects no viruses.
Ran CCleaner on the registry and cleaned up unnecessary files.
Disabled Superfetch as a test, saw no improvement.
Checked the SMART readings on the drive, everything showing as "Good."
The lack of responsiveness reminds me of an old Windows 95 install chugging along after a few years. It's really quite bad and I can't isolate it at all since it's spread among a ton of services.
I don't have many extraneous programs installed, nor any real-time anti-viruses besides Windows Defender. Has anyone else experienced this problem lately with Windows 8.1? Eventually the disk access settles down but I feel like load times are still poor... even browsing folders after the disk access goes down, icons don't load instantly, but I see them load over time. Just a sense that everything is not running up to speed. :/
Thanks for any help or suggestions people may have.
My laptop has been progressively getting worse with its responsiveness after startup. Icons take ages to load on the desktop, programs launched are lagged or sometimes fail to respond. The culprit is 100% disk usage that lasts for almost 5 minutes after a boot. Unfortunately, this disk access seems to be spread randomly among multiple programs and services, meaning I can't isolate what specifically is causing these massive spikes that are crippling my computer after startup.
Things I've tried:
All the latest Windows updates as of December 10th.
Full scan with Malware-Bytes detects no viruses.
Ran CCleaner on the registry and cleaned up unnecessary files.
Disabled Superfetch as a test, saw no improvement.
Checked the SMART readings on the drive, everything showing as "Good."
The lack of responsiveness reminds me of an old Windows 95 install chugging along after a few years. It's really quite bad and I can't isolate it at all since it's spread among a ton of services.
I don't have many extraneous programs installed, nor any real-time anti-viruses besides Windows Defender. Has anyone else experienced this problem lately with Windows 8.1? Eventually the disk access settles down but I feel like load times are still poor... even browsing folders after the disk access goes down, icons don't load instantly, but I see them load over time. Just a sense that everything is not running up to speed. :/
Thanks for any help or suggestions people may have.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64 bit
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo