Windows 10: Performance spikes on Windows 10, even while idling.

Hello, I've come across your forum while searching for a solution to my performance spikes on my Windows 10 machine. I've seen a few older threads dicussing the same problem, but none of their solutions provided any improvement for me hence this thread.

This computer is currently 4,5 years in use (bought January 2014), using it to play older games and do some basic photo-editing with paint. It's been running smoothly ever since, but about a few days ago I started noticing tremendous performance spikes during regular activity (watching Youtube videos, playing Blizzard games such as Heroes of the Storm and Starcraft 2, even just when listening to music via Winamp while typing away in Word...). These lag spikes have increased in severity over time: from lasting only a few seconds to nearly 25 seconds now.

I've performed a number of actions advised on these forums: installing Malwarebytes to do a clean sweep, ran the options mentioned in this post, updating my drivers for my graphics cards via windows itself,... but none have relieved the issue.

I've assembled some information about my system as asked in other threads, links below (wasn't able to attach it here as the profile.etl already seemed to be 477MB): I ran a general profile assessment via Windows Powershell and did a DnDiag for more information on my system in particular. I've replicated the problem in the general profile by booting up Heroes of the Storm, played it for about 15 minutes and after 10 minutes the freeze occurred.

DnDiag.txt
Profile.etl

Is anyone the wiser how this problem can be solved? If you need any additional information, I'd be glad to dig it up for you. Thanks in advice for your help with this issue.

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CPU spikes and performance lag

I just did all 3 of the things you suggested and nothing has changed. Do you have any other ideas.

Edit: Apparently I didn't do all the things, you suggested me, correctly. I just did them again, like they are supposed to be done, and everything seems to be working appropriately. There are no lag spikes and I think the problem is fixed. Thank you very much for helping me.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Unlocked Realtek HD Audio Drivers Windows 7 & 8 (With Dolby Digital Live and DTS Interactive)

DTS supported natively by Windows 8/8.1 and it should work on windows 10 too just DDL require to unlock your driver .