The system only has 4GB RAM, not ideal, but enough. It's certainly not the culprit.

I shouldn't need to "boost" the performance of Windows... It should, and used to, perform just fine... At this...

I'm not at the system right now, but I already disabled the telemetry too by disabling the scheduled task that runs it and rebooting. It too made no difference...

Keep in mind that whatever the...

Already tried that, the issue persisted. Even tried a diagnostic startup, same thing.

It seems slightly faster in Safe Mode, but it's still extremely slow...

@FreeBooter: The system is set to defrag weekly, was last done on the 5th.

@zinou: Dropbox - 10-07-2017.11-35-24.etl

@axe0: It's an Inspiron 3521, so probably about 5 years old if I had to...

Anytime I launch a program or try to do anything, my laptop's disk usage jumps to 100% and everything goes super slow (including the boot process)...

I've done a lot of troubleshooting including:...

Indeed, it did, but I didn't give it time to build the crash dumps because it took like 5 minutes (literally) of staring at a black screen and I was in the middle of troubleshooting. Those attached...

They're already attached to the first post...

BSODs & Monitor Signal Loss, GRAPHICS_DRIVER_TDR_FAULT

Very well, your wish is my command. :) Ran them with the driver uninstalled. The dumps aren't included because I had moved them to my desktop when I created the first post.

It's a fresh install using the Win 10 media creation tool image. I tried to run that program the other day but it keeps crashing at random points before it finishes. If I uninstall the graphics...

(I also posted this on EightForums before realizing I wasn't on TenForums.)

System Information

Make: Dell
Model: XPS 630i (~9 years old)
Original OS: Windows Vista SP1
Original GPU: GTX 280...

Absolutely beautiful. You are a wonderful person, topgundcp! :P

Thanks

Interesting, but I don't have another AV I wish to install - I'd just like to disable it.

Unfortunately, I've already tried that and it doesn't allow me to stop or disable the service.

I get an, "Operation Could Not Be Completed, Access is denied." error.

I'm on build 10074 of Windows 10 and cannot find a way to permanently disable Windows Defender. When I go to Control Panel > Windows Defender > Settings, it brings up the new Windows 10 System...