Windows 10: GF is going to kill me - Task bar keeps loading & extremely slow performance

So yeah, my gf is going to kill me. She was experiencing some issues with her laptop being very slow, so I told her that I will fix it by formatting it, 100% guaranteed. Well I did not know that slow performance sometimes cannot be solved by a format.

I did a clean format, but not only is the laptop is still slow, but now whenever I turn it on I get one of the following cases:

1. 
   It logs in in like 2-3 minutes, with the taskbar running normally (best case, very rare).
   
   
2. 
   It remains stuck on "Windows is getting ready" screen, so I have to kill the power manually by pressing the power button.
   
   
3. 
   It logs in in like 2-3 minutes, with the taskbar being frozen and loading infinitely (and sometimes desktop icons keep loading). This is the most frequent scenario, and it is resolved only if I press Alt+F4 where the screen goes blank for a second and everything goes back to normal.
   

Whenever I check the task manager I find that the disk usage is 100%, before and even after the format in all mentioned cases above. My gf wants to take the laptop tomorrow morning (12 hours in my timezone) and she is really annoyed by the fact that I made her laptop even worse.

The laptop (Toshiba L500) is old, with Core2Duo processor, 3 GB RAM, and 240 GB HDD.

Please, this is call for help.

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Extremely Slow Performance

One of my desktop PC's recently started performing extremely slow. What information can I provide to help address this issue?

 

Slow Windows performance

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would appreciate if you could answer few questions to narrow down to the issue.

• What is the make and model of the computer?
• Did you install any third party security application?
• Did you perform any troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue?
• Did you install any third party security application?
• Did you make any changes to the settings?

I suggest you to run Maintenance task and check if it helps to resolve the system slowness.

The Run maintenance task checks issues that might slow down your computer's performance or using high memory space, such as how many users are currently logged on to the computer and whether multiple programs
are running at the same time.

Please follow the steps below:

1) Press Windows + X keys on the keyboard and select Control Panel

2) Type Troubleshooting in the search bar on the Control Panel.

3) Click on View all on the left navigation pane.

4) Click on System maintenance.

5) Click on Advanced on the System maintenance dialog box and click on Run as administrator (Enter the credentials
if required).

6) Click on Next and follow onscreen instruction complete the System maintenance troubleshooter.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Extremely Slow Performance

Hi Greg, when your PC is performing slow, please do the following:

Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys to open Task Manager

On the processes Tab:

If your Hard Drive activity High, click on the Drive column header so the arrow points down. What processes are now at the top of the list

If your processor is very active, click on the CPU column header so the arrow points down. What processes are now at the top of the list

If your Memory is very full, click on the Memory column header so the arrow points down. What processes are now at the top of the list

For each of the above if the activity is high, please report which processes are top of the list . . .