Windows 10: Laptop works insanely slow, attempting any repairs is a living hell and the cause of it the...

I’ve been trying a lot of stuff that’s supposedly meant to solve the issue troubleshooter, command prompt, powershell, but things are rather getting even worse. Anything I do makes the laptop freeze for a very long time, it takes an insane amount of time to start it, everything is just painful. I assume the 2023-11 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 is the cause for all of this, since it just won’t ever get done, however long I wait. I’ve tried letting my laptop do it over night, only to wake up to not even an error code or something, the update is just not done, keeps “downloading” and “insta

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Programs not working

In post 26 there were steps listed to fix the operating system corruption.
Are you able to follow them?
In post 29 was the suggested dism repair command.

 

Windows Live Mail Stopped Working

Hi Alan,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Provide more information to help you better:

1. What is the exact error message that you received?

2. Which version of Windows Live Essentials are you using on the computer?

This issue might have happened due to some components of your Windows Live Mail become corrupted. I suggest you follow these steps to repair it.

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    Press Windows key + X to access Control Panel.
    
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    Click Control Panel.
    
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    Click Programs.
    
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    Click Programs and Features.
    
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    Search for Windows Live Essentials then double click it.
    
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    Click Repair all Windows Live programs.
    

Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with updated status of the issue so that we can assist you further.

 

Insanely slow HDD random read/write

I'm playing tech support for a relative, and her (ASUS K53E) laptop SATA HDD has insanely slow random read/write. Sequential r/w is around 74 MB/s, which seems fine, but random is around 1 MB/s. Hard disk health is fine according to S.M.A.R.T. Win10 1709 Pro x64. Pentium B960; HM65 Express chipset using the Microsoft Standard SATA AHCI Controller driver. Windows update doesn't have any driver updates; Intel driver tool returns nothing; Asus website has no Windows 10 drivers. I'm at a loss, any suggestions?