My PC which runs Windows 8.1 hangs a lot. Everything takes a lot of time. When I press the 'Start' button, the window will open after a lot of time. If I open 'Windows Explorer', 'My Computer' would open after a very long time. Even when switching it on, either it would take 20 minutes, or it won't switch on at all.
I used to have the same problem with Windows 7 too, so I got my PC formatted and installed Windows 7 Ultimate. The problem sprang up again. So I went out and bought a new hard drive and installed win8.1 on it (the problem was gone till recently) . But the problem has now sprung up in 8.1 also. I cleaned my PC with CCLEANER and ran a full scan with AVAST! but I came up empty. I don't have any idea what causes it. My PC starts hanging all of a sudden, and then after some time, ranging from a day to 20 minutes, it would start working normally again. Please help. 🙁
Edit: I also ran the SSID utility in windows 8.1 and even it shows no errors.
Rarely I get an error during boot saying: Media test failure.
And then nothing happens. But that too gets fixed by itself after some time.
I used to have the same problem with Windows 7 too, so I got my PC formatted and installed Windows 7 Ultimate. The problem sprang up again. So I went out and bought a new hard drive and installed win8.1 on it (the problem was gone till recently) . But the problem has now sprung up in 8.1 also. I cleaned my PC with CCLEANER and ran a full scan with AVAST! but I came up empty. I don't have any idea what causes it. My PC starts hanging all of a sudden, and then after some time, ranging from a day to 20 minutes, it would start working normally again. Please help. 🙁
Edit: I also ran the SSID utility in windows 8.1 and even it shows no errors.
Rarely I get an error during boot saying: Media test failure.
And then nothing happens. But that too gets fixed by itself after some time.