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[SwankyDanky]

Ive tried literally every fix under the earth and nothing will fix my problems. I have programs that takes ages to open now nvidia contnrol panel crashes on open my disk runs at 100% pls help should i factory reset?

 

[Colif]

if you tried everything, you wouldn't need us

have you checked you have latest sata drivers for motherboard?

what are specs of PC? Is it a brand name or custom? if brand name, what is make/model? If custom, what motherboard do you have?

have you run free version of hdtune on drive to check its health?

 

[SwankyDanky]

Custom 8gb ram 2tb hdd gtx 1070 i5 6600 @3.3ghz

 

[Colif]

Intel really need new CPU names as I had a E6600 in 2006 and now you have a 6600 and I pretty sure yours isn't same model as mine was. But then GPU companies are the same... i know, this doesn't answer questions but you didn't tell me what motherboard you had

 

[LucoTF]

100% disk usage common fixes:

- Disable windows search & superfetch
- Set a smallish manual pagefile size & restart
- SSD ONLY - disable MSI on the AHCI controller
- Turn off windows defender and/or antivirus
- WIN10 - Disable all windows notifications
- Disable chrome exentions
- Uninstall firefox

 

[SwankyDanky]

Done the first one,
but idk how to do the second,
third dont have a ssd,
4th windows defender iss my only thing protecting my pc ,
5th dont know how,
6th dont use chrome,
7th dont think i have firefox downloaded or anythingn

 

[Rocky Bennett]

Does your PC have a motherboard?

 

[SwankyDanky]

Yea i mean thats totatly not the main part of a pc ^

 

[Colif]

main reason we both keep asking is you haven't mentioned what it is yet. It might help us help you.

 

[SwankyDanky]

main reason we both keep asking is you haven't mentioned what it is yet. It might help us help you.

H110m-s2pv

 

[Colif]

Gigabyte link

was this a fresh install of windows or an upgrade from another? if you have never fresh installed, it can fix 100% usage as it might just be an old driver causing the problem. Motherboard doesn't have killer internet so its not that.

You might want to fresh install win 10 as that will fix up/remove any old drivers that might be to blame. If hdd checked out fine, it has to be software.

 

[SwankyDanky]

Gigabyte link

was this a fresh install of windows or an upgrade from another? if you have never fresh installed, it can fix 100% usage as it might just be an old driver causing the problem. Motherboard doesn't have killer internet so its not that.

You might want to fresh install win 10 as that will fix up/remove any old drivers that might be to blame. If hdd checked out fine, it has to be software.

I cloned my stuff over from my old hard drive and how do I reinstall windows and can I keep all my files/programs

 

[Colif]

files - if you mean documents, windows, music, videos, you will need to copy them onto a USB or other hdd in PC
Programs - you will need to reinstall them all on a clean install
Games - if you have steam/origin libraries, you can copy them to another hdd and copy them back on again on new install
wow - can copy folder and reuse it later
everything on C drive - depending on age of PC, win 10 may decide it wants the hdd C is on to be formatted as GPT. What that means is you have to delete all the partitions on C and let windows 10 recreate them. So remove anything you want to keep off the hdd C is on before you do this.

download the Windows 10 media creation tool and use it to make a win 10 installer on USB
change boot order in BIOS so USB is first, hdd second
boot from installer
follow this guide: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

when you reach the screen asking for licence, click "I don't have a key" and win 10 will continue to install and reactivate once finished

On the screen where you choose where to install win 10, if it gives you an error about GPT drives, delete all the partitions on the hdd and press next. If it still gives error, cancel out of the installer and restart PC and start installer again, it will accept next on that screen this time (some PC just need a restart here)