slow down

Good morning - I'm running Windows 10 on a 2-year-old PC (HP Pavilion Desktop 590-P00700, Intel Core i7-8700, 12GB RAM, DDR4-2666, PC4-21300 MB/s, 1TB Hard Drive). Last year, when backing up some data, I noticed that the PC slowed down drastically whenever I plugged in an external hard drive...

I was running my pc before on windows 10 1909 and ran perfectly fine, i then updated to 2004 and ran into a problem where programs began to slowly stop functioning and updating visually. For example, the text indicator/blinker in Discord would freeze or just not show up until I minimized and...

Hey everyone. Thanks for reading this. Recently I am having a problem: When I boot up my computer, it works well, but sometimes, and I cant really pin point when and because of what, it starts crawling and stuttering. my HDD light flashes far more frequently and everything staggers up to a...

Hi guys! I build a pc a few years ago and it's ran great! But a few months ago it has started to experience slow down. This is mostly a problem when there are multiple programs or things run - like really big pdf's, lots of tabs on chrome, etc. I'm trying to diagnose what the issue is. The...

Had to plug Ext. Drive into Chromebook to reset the chromebook (which didn't even work). Both storage devices are now showing a capacity of mere mbs. Please help. I tried the Atola (sp?) capacity repair tool and all it says is that it failed to load the driver. Please help. And why did this...

I have a i7-3610qm which is 4 cores (8 threads) and its working fine, task manager has 8 cpu graphs but cpuid hardware monitor only tells me temperature of "Core #0" and then "package" . So i downloaded cpu-z to find that it detects my cpu properly but at the bottom it sais "Cores: 1 ; Threads...

Zebronics Zeb-h61 Mobo Intel Core i3-3220(3.3Ghz)DualCore 4GB DDR3 Ram Nvidia GT610 2GB DDR3 Windows 7 Ultimate 32BIT 18.5"Monitor(1336X768) . . But Because Of Lagging In AC4,CrySis 3 Even At 800X600 At Lowest Settings I Want To Upgrade To A GDDR5 GPU Which Is Suitable For 300w PSU....And Also...

So I'm going to buy a pre-built gaming pc, and wanted to know if this one was good for the price. ( http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/Holiday-Intel-i5-Pre-Build ) Please don't tell me I should build one because I'm too lazy and don't know anything about PC's. If you think this is not a good gaming...