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Tweaking.com Support & Help / SOLVED Re: Windows 10 1803 Pro is Very Slow after using Windows Repair 4.30

« on: November 11, 2018, 10:36:50 pm »

Bloody nice call jpm... you've got a good nose.

This is a gaming rig with multiples of HDDs, GPUs, PSUs (to run GPUs). All HDDs are connected to 2nd PSU except M.2 boot drive so I simply turned off the 2nd PSU, powered system back back on, & I'm OK. Unfortunately the 2TB dead/dying drive is where Win10 points to for all of My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, & My Videos. I'm back up with all but G: drive which has lots of data with no backup. Games have not suffered at all.

I guess it was merely a coincidence that drive died on reboot by Windows Repair to safe mode. (I tend not to believe in coincidences).

Thanks again jpm for your insight (or should I say insmell).
 

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 10 1803 Pro is Very Slow after using Windows Repair 4.30

« on: October 29, 2018, 06:04:01 am »

The restore point called "T" ran for ages... I had to go to bed. Next morning the system was sitting at the login screen... Yay! I thought. When I logged, it notified me it had been unsuccessful... no error codes or anything to go by.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 10 1803 Pro is Very Slow after using Windows Repair 4.30

« on: October 28, 2018, 07:05:14 pm »

I use a Task Manager replacement called "Process Explorer" by Sysinternals... have a look here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/sysinternals/

Then using their PSKill command in a batch file I can kill any unwanted processes and strip junk away to a system that performs better.

BTW Restore is still running. This is a good sign since the first attempt using restore point called "T" failed... I woke to a new login & failed attempt.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Windows 10 1803 Pro is Very Slow after using Windows Repair 4.30

« on: October 28, 2018, 10:13:33 am »

Hi Boggin, Thanks for reply and alerting Shane to my problem.

G: drive is one of several that are installed... I have C: to J: drives active (C: is an NVMe M.2 SSD & J: is a USB3 drive... the remainder are conventional). I've pointed Windows 10 there for My Documents, My Music, My Pictures, & My Videos. I've mentioned the scanning of it at startup only because that is something that has happened during the "boot to safe mode" & it's unusual & is now persistent. I use SysInternals' Process Explorer to have a look at what is running... particularly anything that is CPU hungry and there is nothing out of the ordinary. Is there a reg address that stores those commands that run before Windows starts?... or is it in a file?

The restore is still running! so I will wait until it completes. There are some intermittent HDD activity flashes so it's just doing it at snail's pace.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Windows 10 1803 Pro is Very Slow after using Windows Repair 4.30

« on: October 28, 2018, 05:17:22 am »

Here's some history:

I used the free version recently & liked what it did & how it did it. Then saw discount via MajorGeeks.com & purchased the Pro version... entered the code & all good.

Started the program & was doing all the "pre" tests. I then noticed the "do this in Safe Mode" banner, allowed sfc.exe /SCANNOW to finish, activated the "boot into safe mode" from within the application, and rebooted into Safe Mode. While going into safe mode I noticed the "scanning and repairing drive G:" message which is unusual... none of the other HDDs (C:, D:, E:, F:, H:, & J: (USB)) had this message.

When I arrived in Safe Mode, everything was very slow. I know "slow" is one of the most difficult issues to diagnose & correct... but there is no other way to describe it. Programs that took less than a second to start now take more than a minute. But they do start.

I ran Windows Repair which finally loaded & seemed to get going ok. It stopped on about repair number 4 (I think) after several retries of that repair & gave up. There are logs available I'm sure.
So I've booted back to normal Windows, still get scanning drive G: message, still painfully slow.

I thought that since I did all the pre-work before the fix-work, then restore to previous restore point should do the trick. My first attempt failed using the most recent point with the name "T"... it runs for hours & when I woke this morning the system had rebooted but nothing had changed. I now have the opportunity to reverse that failed attempt. I have picked the next most recent... it's still running... has been running for hours and I'm about to go to bed again & leave it on it's own. This message is on the screen:

Please wait while your Windows files and settings are
being restored
System Restore is restoring the registry...

Is there something else I should attempt rather than restore from a previous point? I hope to hear from someone soon...