[SOLVED] PC gets EXTREMELY slow after 20 minutes

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May 3, 2021
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My windows 7 (ultimate) pc gets slow after 20 minutes, no matter if I use it or not.
When I had windows 10, this issue didn't exist so I don't think it's a hardware issue.

Please help me solve this issue.
(I had to remove windows 10 as it lagged too much on my pc lol)

Pc specs:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6550
RAM: 6GB DDR3
HDD: 500GB SATA
GPU: integrated Q45/Q43 intel graphic
Any more info needed?
 
Solution
After slow down shut down takes about 15-20 mins,
But after slow down & benchmark of HDD,
It took about 50secs,
HOW?
The drive has some relocated sectors.
Probably during benchmark they were scanned and moved from pending to relocated status.

Anyway - that is WD Green drive. Should not be used for installing windows on it.
Getting an SSD is proper way of fixing the issue.
May 4, 2021
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You need to look in Taskmanager,..find the process thats consuming the cpu,and troubleshoot that,...maybe just kill the process or uninstall it,depending what it is,..
Once you,e identified the process you can decide what to do about it,..
 
May 3, 2021
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I noticed a very strange thing,
After slow down shut down takes about 15-20 mins,
But after slow down & benchmark of HDD,
It took about 50secs,
HOW?



(also sorry for the late replies)
 
After slow down shut down takes about 15-20 mins,
But after slow down & benchmark of HDD,
It took about 50secs,
HOW?
The drive has some relocated sectors.
Probably during benchmark they were scanned and moved from pending to relocated status.

Anyway - that is WD Green drive. Should not be used for installing windows on it.
Getting an SSD is proper way of fixing the issue.
 
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May 3, 2021
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The drive has some relocated sectors.
Probably during benchmark they were scanned and moved from pending to relocated status.

Anyway - that is WD Green drive. Should not be used for installing windows on it.
Getting an SSD is proper way of fixing the issue.
Ok, I'll get the SSD, The question is why did windows 10 run without this problem?


I'm getting MX 500 SSD 250GB,
Can I use this hdd for storage still?