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KennyGsmooth16

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Hey everyone, I'm a well rounded tech geek, but I'm having the hardest time figuring out what my laptop is doing. I'm currently a student(computer science student),and I NEED my laptop to be working better than it is. I'm using a Lenovo Y40 with a dual core i7 along with 8GB of RAM. Should be a fairly fast machine, right? Well, it use to be. After recent Windows updates, I've noticed it being the most sluggish thing ever. Small things, like searching for a program in the start menu takes decades. I've included screen shots of my resource usage and the problem is definitely the disk usage, as you can see in the pictures. However, I don't understand why these processes are causing the desk usage to hit 100% almost all the time. Has anyone else had this problem, or have an idea of what I can to solve them? I'd appreciate it, thanks!! Click on the link to access the screenshots, it should be available for viewing by anyone.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B6u0W6Up3jfrUEFNVk5vSFpsX2c?usp=sharing
 
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bloodroses
I have an i5 laptop with 8gig of RAM with Windows 10 preinstalled and my hard drive does exactly the same thing. It is due to it only being a platter based 5400rpm drive. I plan on replacing the drive with a SSD this holiday season just like Kd0g76 did.
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Windows 10 seems to do this on systems that upgraded from 8.1 to 10. A simple fresh install has solved this issue for me in the past.

I also suggest getting an SSD, that way even the pathetic programming that Windows 10 has wont slow you down nearly as much.
 
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I am guessing you don't have a SSD. It doesn't matter how good of a cpu you have if you have a slow hard drive windows will be slow. I have windows 7 installed on a hard drive and its noticeably slower than windows 10 installed on my SSD.(for my desktop pc) My laptop had the same issue until I replaced the hard drive with a SSD.
 
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I have an i5 laptop with 8gig of RAM with Windows 10 preinstalled and my hard drive does exactly the same thing. It is due to it only being a platter based 5400rpm drive. I plan on replacing the drive with a SSD this holiday season just like Kd0g76 did.
 
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As said before, I'm a computer science major, and I realize how slow hard drives are compared to SSD's (I have an SSD on my desktop), but I know that the hard drive shouldn't be performing this slow. I know it's a crappy 5400rpm drive, but it shouldn't take 5 seconds for the start menu to come up after clicking on it. I have considered upgrading to an SSD, and I very well might. How would you suggest migrating my data over? Like, Window and everything. And can you even put an SSD in the Y40?
 
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With the migrating, I plan on using the software included with the Samsung SSD drives since I will be buying an EVO. My cube mate at work did the same thing a few months earlier and it went smooth for him.

But yeah, with the 5 second start menu on the platter drive, that sounds about right on my laptop as well. The worst thing is the nearly 20 minutes of time from a cold boot until the hard drive isn't sitting at 90% or more usage.
 
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Can you post screenshots from Resource Monitor - disk tab (order by total desc)
and HDtune health section?

High disk usage can be caused by various windows services: defragmenter, search indexer, windows updates, windows defender.
Also if disk is damaged, it might cause extremely slow operation.
 
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There is a link in my post that should take you to pictures that I've got in my Google Drive (should be open to public viewing). Thanks for the advice though guys, I'm going to try some of the stuff bloodroses mentioned.
 
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