Laptop Moving So Slow It Makes a Glacier Appear Fast

Hi, in what ways is it particularly slow?
How long does it take to boot to the lock screen?

Please post a screenshot of the task manager when it is 'slow', organising columns of interest high to low by clicking on the appropriate column header.
To post a screenshot please use the Insert Image icon above your post.

Please try a clean boot and compare speed.
Again post a screenshot as above.

Please check your disk using e.g. Crystal Diskinfo and post screenshots of the outcome.

How much free space is there on C: ?

Are the page file settings set to default? Post a screenshot.

Please try copying a large file back to the same disk and observe the transfer rate using task manager, Performance, Disk tab.

Boot to Safe Mode- do you see the same slow performance?

Note: glaciers are speeding up..

Download HD Tune, not Pro. Go to the Error Scan tab, run a full Error Scan, not a Quick Scan. This will take a long time. If all the blocks are Green, then the HDD is in good Health. If any of the blocks are RED then this drive is beginning to fail and it needs to be replaced.

dalchina said:

Hi, in what ways is it particularly slow?

These timings are for Safe Mode with Networking
Press power button - W10 logo displays for 3.5 minutes with the revolving circle of dots
Logo disappears and screen is totally black for 30 seconds
The black screen redisplays the circle of dots for 3 minutes
The dots disappear and just a black screen - 2 minutes
Finally 9 minutes after the power button is pressed we get the Enter Password screen. After entering his password we get the Welcome screen which displays for 1 minute, followed by 1 minute of black screen, then 3 minutes to populate the desktop and taskbar. Even when it finally seems to be finished, we have to wireless connection. I have to manually bring up the networks, click on mine and enter the password. Every time..

dalchina said:

Please post a screenshot of the task manager when it is 'slow', organising columns of interest high to low by clicking on the appropriate column header.

As I've indicated, the Toshiba is so slow I cannot reply to this forum using it. All I can do is try to give you information and reply using my own PC. It took me 45 minutes to get a screenshot of taskmgr which I copied to a USB stick, Since then I have managed to initiate Malwarebytes free version. Of course, just when I have a particularly effed up PC is when they decided to unveil a new version of MB (where's the scan for rootkits, Heuristic items?)

Unfortunately I am not able to safely eject my USB drive and cannot shut down the Toshiba since it's actually made it to the last stage (there's apparently only 6 stages now) of the scan. It has detected 123 items but this new, sucky version doesn't let me see what it's found thus far. I'll post a new task manager screenshot when this completes (where's the green progress bar showing how far along it is in a stage?)

dalchina said:

To post a screenshot please use the Insert Image icon above your post.

Please try a clean boot and compare speed.
Again post a screenshot as above.

Please check your disk using e.g. Crystal Diskinfo and post screenshots of the outcome.

How much free space is there on C: ?

Are the page file settings set to default? Post a screenshot.

Please try copying a large file back to the same disk and observe the transfer rate using task manager, Performance, Disk tab.

Boot to Safe Mode- do you see the same slow performance?

Note: glaciers are speeding up..

Ok, try one simple thing please- try booting to Safe Mode and report performance.
E.g. at the login screen, shift+ left click Restart

If you can get any useful response then, further tests can be performed.

Otherwise I suggest you prepare a live boot disk to boot the PC from, and if that runs reasonably well, you can run tests on the disk.
E.g. iso from here:
Toolkit Item: Kyhi’s Rescue Disk – Win10.Guru
and then create a bootable disk using appropriate commands or a utiltity such as Rufus (typical instructions in tutorial 'Clean Install Windows 10' - but using Kyhi's iso file).


Or, you could take the disk out and test it when connected to another PC.

At this point we don't know if there's a disk problem (hardware), some other hardware problem, or a configuration/Windows issue - or something else.

Your best bet on testing that disk is likely to be, as I suggested, to connect it as a USB disk to a different PC, or to try using a live boot disk (which doesn't require your disk to boot your PC).

If it then proves impossible to complete a test, replace the disk.

I hope you have a full backup- tenforums tirelessly recommends the routine use of disk imaging e.g. Macrium Reflect (free/paid).