general slowdown

I don't know if you're allowed to post an issue that is solved but I spent many hours hunting this one down and Tom's Hardware always seems to come up in Google results, so this might help somebody some day. I was suffering from very pronounced audio crackling/dropouts and a general slowdown of...

So i installed a cracked game, but it kinda failed, so i decided to delete the game. There was uninstall option in the game folder but i didnt use it and instead just delete the whole game file. Now my disk is always on 100% usage and reading/writing really slowly. Its only about 300kbps read...

So my computer has been working for months now with no network issues at all. I decided to upgrade my router (its a older linksys router) to a new Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 Smart router. I plugged the new router in and did the quick setup, was able to forward a couple of ports for my games...