How do i make my pc run normal/fast again

Hello.

my pc is from Aug. 12 22 and its been running fast and stable most of the time since then, but then since friday the 7th of July its been getting slower and slower and yesterday and today to the point where i sometimes cant even use Mozilla Firefox, its also very slow in Google Chrome (I get something with pages not responding), it takes forever to open up documents, my pc and to turn off the pc etc. And then now all of a sudden its fast again, its very weird and annoying. I have a backup from the 29th of June i could use, but there is some stuff that isnt backed up, so im hoping there is another solution ? Ive been running Windows Defender and its not finding any viruses.

This is my specs:

Computer typeC/Desktop

OS:Windows 10 Home Edition

CPU:Intel i7 12700F

Motherboard:ASUS B660M-K D4

Memory:16 GB DDR4

Graphics Card(s):2047MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 (MSI)

Hard Drives:2x 1863GB KINGSTON SNVS2000G (SATA-2 (SSD))

Case:NZXT H510

Cooling: Be Quiet Pure Rock 2 and then a rear and top exhaust fans

Keyboard:Logitech

Mouse:Logitech

Internet Speed:300/300 fiber

Browser:Google Chrome

Antivirus:Windows Defender

dalchina said:

Hi, basics:
Check your disks- Crystal Diskinfo.
How much free space do you have on C: ?
If both are ok, from an admin command prompt run
chkdsk X: /scan
changing X for each of your partitions/drives as appropriate.
Advise if that passes and any failures. Don't post the whole result.

Post a screenshot of your task manager taken about 3 mins after logging in. Organise columns of interest high to low by clicking on the appropriate column header.

In particular, post such a screenshot when your PC is slow.

Potentially could be a marginal PSU, I suppose.

In Crystal Diskinfo it says C is 99% good and D is 100% good ? Could it be because the C drive is at 99% and do you want me to post anything from there ?

on the C drive where Windows is i have 1.71 TB space and on my D drive where i have everything else i have 387 GB space left


or should i go to the next step ?

Samuria said:

Check taskmanger and see what's running at start

The second after restart i opened Task Manager and CPU went from 89% down to 9% in a second or something, now as im writing this its down to 4-7%, memory is at around 35-40% and disk where at around 10% but is down to 0% now with 28 windows open in Google Chrome, Spotify, VPN, ZoneAlarm and Intel Driver & Support Assistant

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Paul Black said:

Hello @BossSiggy,



To perform the above, Copy & Paste the following command into a CMD Prompt and press Enter.

Code:

PowerShell "Get-CimInstance Win32_StartupCommand | Select-Object Name, Command, User, Location | Sort-Object {$_.Name} | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize | Out-String -Width 166"

If you want a more detailed output, let me know.

I hope this helps.

this is the result of that C:\Windows\system32>PowerShell "Get-CimInstance Win32_StartupCommand | Select-Object Name, Command, User, Location | Sort-Object {$_.Name} | Format-Table -Wrap -AutoSize | Out-String -Width 166"

Name Command User
---- ------- ----
Discord "C:\Users\Nicolai\AppData\Local\Discord\Update.exe" --processStart Discord.exe --process-start-args --start-minimized SIGNELL\Nicolai
OneDrive "C:\Program Files\Microsoft OneDrive\OneDrive.exe" /background SIGNELL\Nicolai
OneDriveSetup C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /thfirstsetup NT AUTHORITY\LOKAL TJENESTE
OneDriveSetup C:\Windows\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /thfirstsetup NT
AUTHORITY\NETVÆRKSTJENESTE
PrivadoVPN C:\Program Files (x86)\PrivadoVPN\PrivadoVPN.exe /autostart /RunMinimized SIGNELL\Nicolai
Reflect UI C:\Program Files\Macrium\Common\ReflectUI.exe Public
RtkAudUService "C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\realtekservice.inf_amd64_5fb296660a9719a9\RtkAudUSer vice64.exe" -background Public
SecurityHealth %windir%\system32\SecurityHealthSystray.exe Public
Spotify C:\Users\Nicolai\AppData\Roaming\Spotify\Spotify.exe --autostart --minimized SIGNELL\Nicolai

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Megahertz said:

It can be that it is preparing an upgrade to Win 11. Many people here complain that their computer upgraded without warning.

When was the last time you run Disk cleanup (%windir%\system32\cleanmgr.exe)?

Try a Clean Boot

Often it wants to install Windows 11, when im booting up, but im always cancelling it, since i dont want Windows 11 and nothing looks different than usual so it should still be Windows 10 right ?

i never run Disk Cleanup, i guess you want me to do that ?

and a clean boot is the last thing i want to do, unless its necessary, because it would take forever setting Windows up the way i have it set up now, but i guess i could my backup from Macrium Reflect ? Im just scared that i might some virus since my pc is slow and that my external hd with the backup would get infected if i plug it into my pc ?

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dalchina said:

Ok, await the rest- also post a screenshot of Windows Update History.

Could be attempting and failing an update...