Computer is slow and Laggy after Windows 10 update

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Rabia Baloch

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I have an old model of a Dell PC but my computer was fine before the Windows 10 update. My games started lagging. My Youtube videos lag and start to pixelate into tiny squares sometimes (the video). I have had many problems since the Windows 10 update I am not considering going back to windows 7 I just need a quick fix. I have deleted a lot GB's in my files to clear up space but that didn't help that much. I know there's a way to clean up junk files that cause lag but I don't know how to do that.
 
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I have not heard of any issues related to this before, but what i can tell you is that Windows 10 is extremely unstable and unreliable for some people. Windows 10 is a love/hate situation. I've used windows 10 before, i like the interface, but it has too many problems to count & the updates are only making it worse. If I were you i would just re-vert back to windows 7 (or even 8.1), Microsoft has stated that windows 7 will be supported till 2020. Other than that, I can't tell you why this is happening, other than just a horrible unstable update, or your computers specs. (cpu, gpu, etc.)
 
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Windows 10 seems to prefer generic Windows 10 drivers over hardware-specific Windows 7/8 drivers. Roughly half the support calls I've gotten for "stuff stopped working" issues have been due to a Windows 10 update replacing a Windows 7/8 driver which was working fine. On top of this, even when hardware-specific Windows 10 drivers are available, Update often installs the generic driver and declares everything is working fine (removes the missing device driver warning from Device Manager) when the generic driver clearly does not work.

Go to the Dell support page for your computer and see if they have Windows 10 drivers. Download and install all of them.

If Windows 10 drivers are not available, you can try installing a Windows 7 or 8 driver. Based on your symptoms, I'd try the video and motherboard drivers. Unfortunately, Windows 10 will try to replace these drivers the next time it updates. There used to be a setting where you could tell it "don't try to update this driver". But Microsoft moved or removed it in the big October update and I haven't been able to find it again (haven't really been looking though).
 
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Ill try some of these out what's funny is I already used Malwarebytes not too long ago to delete a virus on my computer xD

 
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I think your problem would be more targeted on your video driver cause after the last update same thing happened to me and i notice that windows forced in their own default driver instead of my standard Nvidia driver. I dont know what chipset your using but i suggest you reinstall your display driver and let it do a "clean install"., which is an option on for Nvidia. I'm not sure about AMD since i have been on the green team for the past 15 years. Last time i used AMD was when AGP slot where still in used :)
 
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I agree with you. Windows 10 is a love/hate situation. It works like a charm on some devices and it has so annoying bugs(even with clean installation) on some devices.
 
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After a Windows 10 update my computer was running very slow. The solution that worked for me was to hit "Alt, Control, Delete" to open the task manager go to the "Service Tab" than down to "Windows Module Installer" (I believe this the Window update program so you may not get automatic Window 10 updates after stopping this program) than right click and select "Stop". After doing this my computer starting running at a good speed. It also fixed my issue of getting hung up on restart with the circular dot rotating round and round on my screen but never getting to the log in page. Hope this helps.

J.P.
 
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What I can tell you is stay as far away from CCleaner as you can! I don't know who this is telling you to use that, but I can assure you, you will regret it if you do.
 
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Windows 10 is, simply, not a very good system, and using it comes with headaches galore. This was the biggest bust since Vista<98. If you are going to use it, just understand, it's bad. They are even scrapping support for this dog, early next year, if you installed as an update. They may have a for profit version that they are gonna roll out because this Windows 10 dog has fleas!
 
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Actually, I use CCleaner (the free version) all the time on quite a few computers and have never had an issue with it. It is much more effective than disc cleanup, in my experience. I use the registry cleaner included in it too with good results.
 
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Facing the same issue with drivers planning to switch back to windows 7, has any of the solution provided by others in forum worked
 
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It started with the Win 10 patches for MELTDOWN & SPECTRE. The hit on fixing the Intel CPU core is a much bigger hit than announced.
 
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