Windows 10: PC suddenly became dangerously slow!

Discus and support PC suddenly became dangerously slow! in Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance to solve the problem; One question: Did you setup your paging file location on the HDD ? Discussion in 'Windows 10 Performance & Maintenance' started by gilescore, Mar 12, 2018.

  1. zinou Win User

    PC suddenly became dangerously slow!


    One question: Did you setup your paging file location on the HDD ?
     
    zinou, Mar 12, 2018
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  2. gilescore Win User

    I don’t think so
     
    gilescore, Mar 12, 2018
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  3. zinou Win User
    Can you do a screenshot of the virtual memory configuration tab ?
    in the start menu type "SystemPropertiesAdvanced"


    PC suddenly became dangerously slow! [​IMG]



    PC suddenly became dangerously slow! [​IMG]
     
    zinou, Mar 12, 2018
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  4. BRKKAB Win User

    PC suddenly became dangerously slow!

    Are your personal files on the h.d.d. or s.s.d./
    I have the following setup on my pc:
    M2 ssd = Windows/Programs/Newer Games/Page File
    ssd 2+Bulk of Games
    H.D.D.= My User Account Contacts, Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Links, Music, Pictures, Saved Games, Searches, Pictures and Videos
    A: If that's kind of the same case as you, the h.d.d. failing will slow Windows down, as it may not be seeing and looking for your personal files on the h.d.d.
    If that is the case and you have them backed up to a external h.d.d., I'd go and try to repoint Windows to that location for them, until you replace the internal h.d.d.
    If you don't have them backed up to a external h.d.d, but you have one, you can do what I did when my Barracuda failed on this one.
    Be forewarned though, it's a agonizingly long tedious task due to the bad h.d.d. frequently disappearing.
    Go into Safe Mode and make atleast the following ffolders on it Documents, Downloads, Favorites, Music, Saved Games (if a gamer and some older games) and videos.
    If you have subfolder for any of those on the bad h.d.d., cut & paste them into the folders you made on the external h.d.d.
    The tedioud part is this will take forever, as more than likely the bad h.d.d. will keep disappearing and require frequent restarts into Safe Mode to accomplish it.
    It took me like 8 or 9 hours to do it on my pc.
     
    BRKKAB, Mar 13, 2018
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  5. zinou Win User
    @gilescore
    I think that your problem is related to your HDD health state and your paging file configuration.

    Your page file is probably split over your two Disks (SSD & HDD); In the Disk usage graph I see access to 2 page files, one on the SDD and the second one on the HDD. and these access fits under the time range when the delay is noticed in the Session Init phase.


    PC suddenly became dangerously slow! [​IMG]


    PC suddenly became dangerously slow! [​IMG]


    What to do ?

    Open the registry editor (Regedit)
    Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management" check the value of this key "PagingFiles"
    If you find two values, that confirm my assuption. you have to put this value instead "?:\pagefile.sys"
    You can also check and change this value from the virtual memory properties Windows as I mentioned in my previous post, by checking .


    PC suddenly became dangerously slow! [​IMG]


    Keep us informed...
     
    zinou, Mar 13, 2018
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  6. zinou Win User
    @gilescore Can you give us a feedback please ?!
     
    zinou, Mar 16, 2018
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  7. gilescore Win User
    I’m sorry guys I was out of town for a few days I’m back now I’ve found the issue it seems to be that my HDD has just flat out died a guy previously and my mate also said Seagates aren’t built to last, as soon as I removed it the problem is gone I’ve got a spare HDD in an old PC an o’l reliable WD hasn’t failed me in 6 years I’ll invest in a good HDD soon enough thank you guys so much I dunno where I would have been without ya!
     
    gilescore, Mar 16, 2018
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  8. zinou Win User

    PC suddenly became dangerously slow!

    I would suggest that you review your paging file config. Splitting it between the SSD and the HDD will lower down the performance.
     
    zinou, Apr 4, 2018
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