Windows 10: Small lag on Windows 10 while opening simple tasks

Good evening,
I have recently bought a new laptop (aero 15 specs: 16gb ram, i7-7700hq, nvidia 1060 and 500gb SSD) and it is great in every aspects except one: windows 10 lags (for like less than 0,5s ) whenever i open some simple task like control panel, display settings or nvidia geforce experience, not all of them but some.
The lag consist in the mouse being blocked and the windows (like control panel) first being semi-clear and then after like 0,25s becoming normal and operative. Since i think it's a software problem and not an hardware problem (all the benchmark are on point) I think i am going to do another clean installation (i did the first one right after the pc was delivered because of the bloatware).
Do you think it's the right thing to do or am i throwing away my time? I mean is not anything important because the laptop runs smootly in every other istance. Is it going to solve my little problem or is it better to stick on the current situation?
Thank you in advance

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Windows performance is extremely slow, disk usage shoots to 100% most of the time

HI Team,

I purchased a new laptop only to be disappointed by seeing windows 10 performance. I got my hardware verified and there are no hardware issues.

In Task Manager I could see disk usage shooting to 100% most of the time which causes degraded performance. Simple operations like opening a browser, opening word, excel and scrolling the web page takes a lot of time even, the system lags a lot.

Is there any patch or fix available ??

Thanks,

Janmajay Adhikari

 

Windows 10 Lagging when searching webs, multitask and such.

Hello there, I have an Asus rog G501jw that I bought from ebay new. When I first got it, it was running windows 8.1 so I installed windows 10 home right away. The specs it has is Intel I7-4720hq, 16gb rams, 512ssd, and Nvidia 960m. The problem I'm having
with this laptop is windows 10 seems very lagging when I doing task such as web browsing(especially Facebook) it is quite lagging and not responsive like some other lower end laptop that my friend has. also when I'm opening an app, it would not open smoothly
and there will be stuttering trying to open and program. Also, when switch between apps like web browsing to Word, the transition seems very lagging and not responsive compare to my friend laptop which has the lower specs but have windows 10 preinstalled.

These problems only occur when my laptop is not plugged in. Everything seems normal when it is charging and run smoothly without the problem.

My question here is why is there such a big gap different in performance when my laptop not plugged in? should the performance will still be the same without plugged in? and I'm only doing simple task like web browsing and typing documents.

Thank you

 

Hi, I can only guess. Did you notice this problem before you clean installed Win 10?

When you clean install you will get whatever drivers MS deems good for you. It is possible that some difference in the drivers- e.g. the graphics driver- between what is delivered as part of the clean install and that supplied with your PC is causing the problem.

If you retained the manufacturer's recovery partition- assuming there was one- you could try using that again for comparison.

Another question relates to the Windows build. When you bought your PC, which Win 10 build was installed? 1607? 1703? 1709? (Anniversary, CU, Fall CU?).

If you bought it with 1703 installed, it is quite possible certain drivers were a different version. Installing 1709 with different drivers could lead to the problem you are seeing.

Another clean installation is unlikely to help.

Some people have found with (e.g.) graphics drivers (and I can't say that's where your problem lies) they need to use an OLDER version, then protect that from being replaced.

 

Hello,
I don't remember which build it came surely an older one, but now i think it's the 1709 because in the system information tool it says build 16299. So what you are saying is that maybe i upgraded the OS version and now there is a conflict between windows 10 and the driver, right? What could i do, should i try to use the recovery partition and get back the laptop to the factory settings or do I have to upgrade all the drivers? Should i wait until the driver solve this problem?

 

If you still have the recovery partition, then you have the option to demonstrate to your own satisfaction (or not!!) that the problem doesn't exist by restoring that and seeing what happens.

If all is fine then, you can- as I recall someone else did- save a copy of (assumption!) the graphics driver then in use, which you can install later should you so wish.

I suggest you note the version of the graphics driver (assumption!) in use currently for reference.

At this point we have no certain way of knowing what the underlying cause is, of course. Just that the graphics driver is a likely candidate.

You can then clean install again, then try using the older version of the graphics driver.

Note- a much neater and faster way to do this would be to use disk imaging (which we constantly recommend people use routinely). E.g. Macrium Reflect (free) + large external storage for image sets.

E.g. Image what you have now, use your recovery partition, image your Windows then (should you want to go back to it), then restore your image of your current system.

(Restoring an image is faster than a clean install and the subsequent large update etc).

We have no way of knowing if a driver upgrade will solve this at some time in the future- or indeed certainty at this point as to the cause.

 

Hello,
sorry for the delay. Unfortunately i don't have the manufacturer partition in order to get back to the factory state of this laptop. I tried to get back to the first point avaible and the problem still persists. What are my option now?
Could i just unistall the current GPU driver and install the one that the manufacturer suggest in their site? Would this process accomplish anything?
Thank you in advance

 

Hi, I may have missed it, but I don't think you've ever confirmed you've not had the problem, which I did ask about.

We also don't know what build your laptop came with.

As there are too many unknowns, I suggest you refer back to your manufacturer, and use the warranty.
You could ask your supplier for recovery media if you think the problem did not exist when you bought it.

Other than that you are of course free to try a older driver if you can find one, that being the potential difficulty.

You can also look on the manufacturer's forum for similar reports related to your model.

 

Unfortunately i don't remember if the problem was there even in factory settings because i did a clean reistall of windows the same day i got the laptop. I found in the pc box the manufacterer CD that contains the recovery files, but this laptop do not have the cd reader, how can i do it? Can i plug an external reader and boot the pc from there?
Also, is this the right thing to do, or it it better to stick with this little "problem" and go on?
Thank you in advance.

 

Hi, it's really up to you how much time you spend on it or decide to live with it.

Have a careful look at your CD. If it's only a CD, it will probably only be drivers and utilities. If so, it may contain an older graphics driver, which is what you need as a test. However, there's no certainty it's that.

If you can get the recovery info - e.g. download from the manufacturer, and if you have a spare disk, you could put that in your laptop, and then use the download to reinstall your original build. Thus you can compare and extract a driver as necessary.