pc issues PC playing up

[JeKnYan]

Hello

 

My PC was fine this morning, now I came back home to find my PC slow. I shut down my PC before I left, ETS runs at half fps (30), there's a delay between clicking on an icon and it opening. My PC occasionally freezes, Steam kills itself randomly, Windows Explorer freezes.

 

I'm using Windows 10, never had this issue before. I have an SSD (OS is on it) and an older HDD, i7-6700, GTX960 and 16GB of RAM (My PC is 1-2 years old)

 

What I've done so far:

-Restarted several times

-Ran an AV scan (found nothing)

-Cleaned up my drives and defragged them

 

What I've found is that after restarting my PC feels fast like normal, but then slows down. Can anyone help?

 

And don't say it's a virus, I'm already annoyed with dad repeatedly telling me it's a virus when I have a problem with my PC when I found out it's actually not.

 

 

Edited December 12, 2016 by JeKnYan

[PΓΣDΔTΘΓ]

Hey @JeKnYan,

 

do you checked your task manager? 100% CPU or 100% disk usage?

Your CPU cooler is cleaned from dust? Otherwhise it will overheat and reduce the power of the CPU.

 

I got yesterday a problem with my disk which was running @100%. May you got the same. In the ressource manager you can check what programs are reading/writing on the disk. If theres a program called WPR open cmd as admin and type WPR -cancel. It will stop it and your pc is running again.

 

Regards,

Predator

[JeKnYan]

I've fixed it! It was a Visual C++ Redistributable, uninstalled it and restarted, it's fixed now

[JeKnYan]

It might be registry errors, but I don't know how to fix  that

[mattfleaydaly]

What i'd suggest is that you create a new windows user account, and see if it still has the issues on that account.

If it does you might be looking more at the option of reinstalling windows if it is registry related.

By creating a new user account you are creating a new registry for that account.

Also try running your games as an administrator (right click, run as administrator) and see if that helps.

Please let me know if this works or not @JeKnYan

[JeKnYan]

http://www.howtogeek.com/222532/how-to-repair-corrupted-windows-system-files-with-the-sfc-and-dism-commands/

 

Scanning my registry now

[JeKnYan]

@[LKW Tr.] Predator [LET] My PC parts are clear from dust.

 

And the freezing has stopped

[PΓΣDΔTΘΓ]

@JeKnYan CPU and disk usage?

 

[JeKnYan]

Althought it's still slow

[PΓΣDΔTΘΓ]

Great to hear. May your av made a check or sth like that.

[JeKnYan]

I'm running another AV scan right now, the H drive is my external drive, my Av is scanning it

 

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[mattfleaydaly]

1 minute ago, JeKnYan said:

http://prntscr.com/die30p

Glad to see the issue is fixed!
Happy Trucking!

[JeKnYan]

I'll unplug my external drive once it's done I'll try CCleaner later

[PΓΣDΔTΘΓ]

You can also try to defrag your disks. A good program which i also use is Auslogics DiskDefrag

[Forraz]

Moved to Help

[mattfleaydaly]

4 minutes ago, [LKW Tr.] Predator [LET] said:

You can also try to defrag your disks. A good program which i also use is Auslogics DiskDefrag

Just remember though, DO NOT DEFRAG IF IT IS AN SSD. Apologies for the caps but this is very important.

[PΓΣDΔTΘΓ]

Oh yes thanks for mentioning it. Forgot to written it down

6 minutes ago, mattfleaydaly said:

Just remember though, DO NOT DEFRAG IF IT IS AN SSD. Apologies for the caps but this is very important.

 

[Sunort]

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