On 12/5/2017 at 1:44 AM, FableFox said:
So what gives? What is the issue?
That's not very much information to work with. You need to diagnose the issue.
Run 'Resource Monitor' and watch what is using CPU, disk, network. See if there's anything obviously hogging resources. Perhaps you are running out of physical RAM? Performance usually drops off a cliff if that happens.
Run 'View reliability history' and see how many errors/warnings/installations have happened recently.
On the 5th, I got some Windows Updates, so your computer might be dealing with those.
You might have missing drivers. Find and install them. Main things to check for severe performance issues are motherboard chipset drivers and GPU drivers.
You might have a hardware problem (the hard drive is most likely for your symptoms if no software ends up being responsible). Search the internet to see if you can find tools for testing your hardware. There are usually tools that can test each dedicated piece of hardware for their performance. Try those.
Your BIOS might need to be updated, but it's unlikely if this is a new computer.
If you have an SSD, check what kind it is and look for reports about performance or stability problems.
Check to see if your virus scanner is doing a full disk scan. If you're using Kaspersky, get rid of that shit immediately as it will bring your computer to its knees when it's doing a full scan.
42 minutes ago, Bregma said:
Give up. Install Linux. Never look back.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.