Windows 10 exceptionally slow


  1. bgraae
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    Windows 10 exceptionally slow


    I'm having a problem with windows functioning properly. It's extremely slow, takes a long time to load a program, sometimes so long I give up. Some programs I can't open at times. Is Windows experiencing a problem with functionality in this regard? With programs not opening, opening very slow? Yesterday, Sunday, I gave up trying to open two programs. I get this error on shutting down. Please explain it to me. It stated, " task host windows stopping background tasks"? Another message went by so fast I may have misread it, it stated, " CLM(may be incorrect) windows preventing shutdown". Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
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  3. Leechap
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    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
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    bgraae said:
    I'm having a problem with windows functioning properly. It's extremely slow, takes a long time to load a program, sometimes so long I give up. Some programs I can't open at times. Is Windows experiencing a problem with functionality in this regard? With programs not opening, opening very slow? Yesterday, Sunday, I gave up trying to open two programs. I get this error on shutting down. Please explain it to me. It stated, " task host windows stopping background tasks"? Another message went by so fast I may have misread it, it stated, " CLM(may be incorrect) windows preventing shutdown". Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
    I would recommend upgrading your computer to an SSD. I had issues with speed when I first upgraded to Win10 and it would take 2 minutes (or more) to fully boot and be ready to actually use. I cloned the old mechanical drive onto a SSD and it ran faster than the day I bought it...and this is a 6 year old laptop!

    Do it...it just works...Oh and I recommend Samsung solid state drives. They also come with fully functional cloning software that actually is FREE and actually WORKS!
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  4. Ztruker
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    How to fill out System Specs for tenforums.

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  6. eLPuSHeR
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    SSDs are pretty good performance wise but my old SATA2 mechanical drive had no trouble in booting w10 in 1 minute or so. Check that your drivers are up to date and they aren't "vanilla" versions.
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  7. bgraae
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    OK, thanks for the input. We subscribe to a service that repairs and does upkeep on computers. I had him come on board and he took about an hour and found several things that needed to be changed. Since then the problems have subsided, I can live with the speed. It's crazy how you do nothing but settings seem to change and you need help.
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