Windows 10: Windows 10 sluggish response

Hi,

I have a major issue with my system running Win 10.

The system had been upgraded from Win 7 Pro to Win 10. I noticed that it seemed to be taking a long time to boot > 20 mins. I tried running Ashampoo Optimizer and Chk=eck Disk the HDD. There was a short term benefit, then the system has gradually slowed down even more. I have since upgraded Win 10 to the latest release.


My observations of the system's performance:


1 Sluggish response time. Click on an application, the HDD runs at 100%, the app will eventually run. Sometimes the mouse won't respond.


2 The task manager takes a while to launch but once running, it is quite smooth.


3 I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of disk I/o associated with wbengine. I suspended this task and the performance did improve, but still had issues when running other apps.


4I can't connect to the internet. If I click on Edge, the HDD hits 100% and the page times-out. I did succeed once!


5 I shutdown the system one evening and it was still shutting down the following morning. I only witnessed this once. I was forced to power down and restart. The system took the best part of an hour to get fully running. There was about >20-30 mins before I could log-in then a similar period whilst it continued loading, putting blank icons on the screen then filling these icons with the proper icon.


6 I can't run troubleshooter. It displays "An error occurred while troubleshooting. A problem is preventing the troubleshooter from starting"


Error details

Package Id: MaintenanceDiagnostic

Path: Unknown

Error code: 0x80070057

Source: Engine

User:<My system>

Context:Restricted


Windows Specification:

Edition : Windows 10 Home

Version 20H2

Installed : 24/12/ 20202

OS Build: 19042.685

Experience: Feat. Exp. Pack 120.2212.551.0


System Spec:

Processor : i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz 3.60GHz

Ram: 8Gb

System type; 64-bit OS, x64 based processor


I have performed virus scans. The HDD has been reported as clean with no errors.


Any assistance would be appreciated, many thanks in advance


Regards

:)

 

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