Suddenly gone incredibly slow

AndreTen said:

Same behavior? This is the test if it is User dependent.

How are your Task manager readings (memory size, CPU frequency etc?) - to exclude hardware error

I've 15gb ram with plenty in hand, run hardware tests and am up in the right performance percentiles for my kit. Just wondering how the h... my backups got porked. Lost my contacts and my favourites. Particularly annoyed by failure to restore Windows.old

meditek said:

New user entered but what was the point of it?

If the new user isn't slow while the other user still is then that points to something in the old user's profile. Please be patient. This is a way to just eliminate something.

I don't recall you saying how full your drives are. Could you right-click on Start and select Disk Management and take a screen shot. Post the results here.

Here is an example. This is from my 10 year old desktop. It has a 1TB boot SATA SSD, two 1TB SATA HDDs, and a DVD burner. It also has a 5 TB external HDD for backup. It has a dual-boot with Windows 10 and Windows 7. Both work great.



BTW, I'm 70 years old and have had my own computer for over 40 years ago now. I get frustrated sometimes also. I wish I only had a few dozen programs to reinstall. Last year I had to reinstall Windows 10 on my main desktop. It took me weeks to get back to normal. I still find programs I forgot to reinstall back then.

MisterEd said:

If the new user isn't slow while the other user still is then that points to something in the old user's profile. Please be patient. This is a way to just eliminate something.

How I wish slowness was still my problem. The loss of data from the past is now for more worrying.

MisterEd said:

I don't recall you saying how full your drives are. Could you right-click on Start and select Disk Management and take a screen shot. Post the results here.

Here is an example. This is from my 10 year old desktop. It has a 1TB boot SATA SSD, two 1TB SATA HDDs, and a DVD burner. It also has a 5 TB external HDD for backup. It has a dual-boot with Windows 10 and Windows 7. Both work great.



BTW, I'm 70 years old and have had my own computer for over 40 years ago now. I get frustrated sometimes also. I wish I only had a few dozen programs to reinstall. Last year I had to reinstall Windows 10 on my main desktop. It took me weeks to get back to normal. I still find programs I forgot to reinstall back then.

None of them anywhere near capacity. I've been using and programming since the Sinclair so these are things I keep my eye on.

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AndreTen said:

If you got such miner malware, your data is safe. You have backups? You've wrote about being unable to load old backup... data is still there.

Check with malware scanners first

Have webroot installed, also run ADWcleaner, and Malwarebytes - Nothing.
Backups are porked - were around 100gb now half that and cannot load the .tibs.
A nightmare. Exhausted. Retiring to bed.

meditek said:

I've 15gb ram with plenty in hand, run hardware tests and am up in the right performance percentiles for my kit. Just wondering how the h... my backups got porked. Lost my contacts and my favourites. Particularly annoyed by failure to restore Windows.old

Before you restore anything from anywhere you need to run antivirus scans on all internal and external drives to make sure there aren't viruses there. Even if you reinstalled Windows and restore anything from the Windows.old folder you risk bringing back any viruses until you know whats there has been scanned for viruses first.

Errors on drives mean anything on them including backups could be suspect. You to scan all drives (internal and external) for errors. To test a drive:
Open a command prompt with administrative privileges and type for the C: partition:
chkdsk /f C:

You can do the same for the other drive letters.