Windows 10: Slowdown of System, High CPU, Cannot Find Source of Problems

Yes I have:

Also yes, I have run Malwarebytes; several times.

Evidence seems to be suggesting it is an errant driver, tho; however when I did a driver maintenance scan it came up with nothing. And trying to find the awry driver manually is a daunting task to say the least!

 

do you have a restore point a few days back where everything was working fine?

 

Forgot to mention, I tried that too this morning! I had a restore point from yesterday before the windows update after which things stopped working--though there is also one from the 27th I could try, too. I am just worried about losing some of the work I have done recently so I should probably just back up some of those files first as I was planning to do anyway. I will try that and update you in this thread on what happened.

 

Ok, flutters let us know

MS probably downloaded drivers with the update

 

You can go into system>advanced system settings >hardware> device instillation settings and say no

This will prevent windows from installing drivers

 

Thanks for the tip, I'll make sure to do that too! *Smile

 

Okay, so... the system restore failed, said there was a file it could not access, but didn't say what file or why exactly... So that option is out! I really wish I could figure out exactly what's going on *cry

 

So, what I ended up doing was doing a factory reset (after I backed up my important files, of course), and after that, viola, the computer is running better than it ever has before, all sorts of small issues I have been having for ages (some all the way back from when I got the computer), are simply gone. And all this is after it was taken to a computer repair place and was told the viruses were too deep to get rid of, and also that he suspected the hard drive was having problems, and that I should send it to the manufacturer and get a new hard drive, but before I did that I decided I should do a factory reset and see if that fixed it (which would mean it was just viruses causing the problems), and it did fix it, so it seems the hard drive is fine and it was the fault of the viruses. And not only that, but it really feels like I should have reset the computer months ago, haha! Yay happy endings! *Biggrin

 

Hey Flutters, that's fantastic !! Enjoy your new system.