Computer advice please?

[ajlelectronics]

Aging i3 laptop takes forever to start and forever to do anything. I can't see anything in Task manager of relevance except 100% disc activity. It has a decent SSD installed.

How can 100kb be 100% ? It is now 200kb at 8%.

 

[MetalMonkey]

What applications are maxing the disk?
Do you have any antivirus scanning?
It could also be a symptom of a failing drive.

There might also be a bug with firmware and the Message Signaled Interrupt
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...100-disk/c2ca1d67-00c6-4bb3-9f86-78932051421e

 

[500e]

Lost the will to live reading it, is there an App

 

[gaz1]

Aging i3 laptop takes forever to start and forever to do anything. I can't see anything in Task manager of relevance except 100% disc activity. It has a decent SSD installed.

How can 100kb be 100% ? It is now 200kb at 8%.

need more info

what operating system are you using
how much memory
what cpu is it

you can find that info out in bios

but not operating system as that needs to be booted up

its also looking like the operating system is eating up all of the memory to run it and that means closing loads of at boot up to gain some sort of power back

 

[Dragnet]

Check your startup programme settings. This is now available in the Task Manager under 'Startup Apps', so you can see what's automatically starting when the computer boots. Often there's a lot of bloatware in there that can be joyfully disabled meaning less to run and fewer overheads

I use the free Speccy to remind myself what my computer has inside.

Sort processes in Task Manager by disk usage to see the offender(s)

Your comment about kb is unclear.

 

[MoreWellie]

Whatever make the ssd drive is, see if the manufacturer has any diagnostic software as that will tell you how the drive is doing

 

[voipio]

Open up a command line, using the Windows key + R

Type in: eventvwr.msc

That should bring up the Windows Event Viewer. Give it a few seconds to populate, then look at Application and System events. The odd error here and thee isn't usually a problem, but if there is a huge cascade of recent errors, that might provide some insight into what's going on.

Someone mentioned Speccy. Speccy should give some idea of system health; things like system temperatures, hard drive status, and suchlike. Also, try running Process Explorer, from www.sysinternals.com, to see if there are any systematic CPU hogs.

 

[AVI_8]

Aging i3 laptop takes forever to start and forever to do anything. I can't see anything in Task manager of relevance except 100% disc activity. It has a decent SSD installed.

How can 100kb be 100% ? It is now 200kb at 8%.

AJ I upgraded my I5 laptop a few years ago due to the issues you’re experiencing, got a solid state drive to upgrade the spinny wheel one and some upgraded memory, wasn’t too expensive, it was like buying a new laptop, starts and is useable now in about 15 seconds, wasn’t too expensive either, they also sent the cable so I could clone the old drive to the new one.
Got it from here

https://www.mrmemory.co.uk/

Just noticed yours is already SSD

 

[Talk]

Aging i3 laptop takes forever to start and forever to do anything. I can't see anything in Task manager of relevance except 100% disc activity. It has a decent SSD installed.

How can 100kb be 100% ? It is now 200kb at 8%.

You say aging, what age is the laptop, and is the SSD the original, if so then it may be on its last legs.
How big is the SSD, how much memory is in the laptop, and what operating system do you use.

I bought an i3 based laptop as covid began, it would bearly run and the fan was going contant.
I put linux on it, it absolutely flew along and the fan rarely ever came on, it rarely never went off
when I had windows on it.

 

[tigdlo]

I have had similar symptoms, the HDD was failing, checked with CrystalDiskInfo, it also continually failed to update windows, whether that was because of the HDD failing or a coincidence I don't know, I also don't know which caused the slow down or irratic disk usage but an SSD and fresh install of Win10 sorted it out.

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

How can 100kb be 100% ? It is now 200kb at 8%.

Over the years I've worked my way through many SSD drives...they all went the same way...slowly shrinking in capacity.

They were showing the drives as full....but there was nothing on the drives. I usually just have the OS on the SSD so eventually booting became hit and miss too!

Could be a similar issue maybe?

 

[Jack_K]

Clone it to another SSD.

 

[frank horton]

u guy's speak another language......hahaha.....

 

[Onoff]

Unless you use say AutoCAD or any other Windows dependent software then put Linux on it.

You could make a USB live stick just to try it without affecting anything.

Pretty much guarantee you'll be astounded at the speed and new lease of life.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=344969

 

[Domdom]

Aging i3 laptop takes forever to start and forever to do anything. I can't see anything in Task manager of relevance except 100% disc activity. It has a decent SSD installed.

How can 100kb be 100% ? It is now 200kb at 8%.

OK, hit START, then RUN (or Win+R) Type RESMON.exe and hit Enter. Brings up resource monitor. Open up the disk section and sort it on the total bytes/sec column. Take a screenshot and post it up. Like this.