Random Windows 7 Problems!

[1800Warioman]

Hi, I am so fed up with my computer I am about to just give up on it. So about a month ago I tried an upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit and guess what it failed! So I tried about 5 more times and same thing happened every time it gets stuck at 24%. And after it finished reverting back to 7 my computer became all sluggish and slow it booted up slow my icons and my gadgets and my whole computer froze up for about 10 seconds before everything would finally kick in. So I gave up on trying to upgrade from my current version of Windows. So I made an image of my current SSD onto another Hard drive in case I need files off of it or anything else. So the best conclusion to me was do a nice fresh install... Everything seemed great.... at least while installing. Once I got to the desktop and got (almost) all the drivers installed I put all my gadgets back and I only have about 8 icons on my desktop I get some of my basic my programs back, Spotify, Firefox and Steam and to my surprise I restart my computer only to find out my boot times are still not near as fast as they were my icons (yes only 8!) I thought were better at first they were already loaded in then after about 15 seconds they flash, go away they slowly start loading back. As for my gadgets the weather one appears and my CPU usage ones take about 25 seconds to appear and I am all comparing this to my old install of Windows where everything was instant to appear but then was made the same way my new installs are going all because of a failed Windows 10 upgrade. Okay so you may think "ohh icons and gadgets are not a big deal" well My CPU is constantly spiking around but usually hover around 27% and my RAM sits at about 6 GB constant! Also to make everything worse Windows Update decides that it just doesn't feel like working! I have no clue if this is a program installed that makes this happen but it will be a wish come true if I can get my computer back to how it was! Thank You

Here is my computer report tell me if you need more info:


Computer Type ACPI x64-based PC
Operating System Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
OS Service Pack
Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.17843 (IE 11.0.20)
DirectX DirectX 11.1
Computer Name BETSYVTHEBEAST
User Name Wario
Logon Domain
Date / Time 2016-10-09 / 11:33

Motherboard:
CPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i7-4770K, 3700 MHz (37 x 100)
Motherboard Name ASRock Z87 Extreme4 (2 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Lynx Point Z87, Intel Haswell
System Memory [ TRIAL VERSION ]
DIMM1: A-Data HY64C1C1624ZY 4 GB DDR3-1600 DDR3 SDRAM (11-11-11-28 @ 800 MHz) (10-10-10-27 @ 761 MHz) (9-9-9-24 @ 685 MHz) (8-8-8-22 @ 609 MHz) (7-7-7-19 @ 533 MHz) (6-6-6-16 @ 457 MHz) (5-5-5-14 @ 380 MHz)
DIMM2: A-Data HY64C1C1624ZY
DIMM3: GeIL CL11-11-11 D3-1600
DIMM4: Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00.
BIOS Type AMI (04/12/2016)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)

Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (2 GB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (2 GB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (2 GB)
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 (2 GB)
3D Accelerator nVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
Monitor Dell ST2420L (HDMI) [24" LCD] (4X6C019C1C2U)

Multimedia:
Audio Adapter nVIDIA HDMI/DP @ nVIDIA GK104 - High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Adapter nVIDIA HDMI/DP @ nVIDIA GK104 - High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Adapter Realtek ALC1150 @ Intel Lynx Point PCH - High Definition Audio Controller [C-2]

Storage:
IDE Controller Asmedia 106x SATA Controller
IDE Controller Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller
Disk Drive Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB ATA Device (250 GB, SATA-III)
Disk Drive TOSHIBA DT01ACA200 ATA Device (2 TB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH16NS40 ATA Device (16x/2x/12x BD-RE)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK

Partitions:
C: (NTFS)
D: (NTFS) 1863.0 GB (1320.7 GB free)
Total Size
Input:
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Keyboard HID Keyboard Device
Mouse HID-compliant mouse

Network:
Primary IP Address
Primary MAC Address D0-50-99-01-B4-25
Network Adapter Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I217-V (192. [ TRIAL VERSION ])

Peripherals:
Printer Fax
Printer Microsoft XPS Document Writer
USB2 Controller Intel Lynx Point PCH - USB 2.0 EHCI Host Controller 1 [C-2]
USB2 Controller Intel Lynx Point PCH - USB 2.0 EHCI Host Controller 2 [C-2]
USB3 Controller Intel Lynx Point PCH - USB 3.0 xHCI Host Controller [C-2]
USB Device Generic USB Hub
USB Device Generic USB Hub
USB Device USB 2.0 MTT Hub
USB Device USB 3.0 Hub
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Input Device
USB Device USB Input Device
USB Device USB Input Device
USB Device USB Input Device
USB Device USB Input Device

DMI:
DMI BIOS Vendor American Megatrends Inc.
DMI BIOS Version P3.40
DMI System Manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
DMI System Product To Be Filled By O.E.M.
DMI System Version To Be Filled By O.E.M.
DMI System Serial Number
DMI System UUID
DMI Motherboard Manufacturer ASRock
DMI Motherboard Product Z87 Extreme4
DMI Motherboard Version
DMI Motherboard Serial Number [ TRIAL VERSION ]
DMI Chassis Manufacturer To Be Filled By O.E.M.
DMI Chassis Version To Be Filled By O.E.M.
DMI Chassis Serial Number
DMI Chassis Asset Tag
DMI Chassis Type Desktop Case

 

[Hlsgsz]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Use task manager or Procexp to see which process is exactly using your CPU at 27%+ and which one (most likely the same one) using so much of your RAM.

 

[1800Warioman]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

 

[1800Warioman]

Use task manager or Procexp to see which process is exactly using your CPU at 27%+ and which one (most likely the same one) using so much of your RAM.

RAM I still have no clue, but for processor it seems to be something called svchost.exe I can't seem to find it in task manger though.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

Yes, you do.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

hmm I had a similar problem with a friend's computer, svchost.exe would use the CPU more than it should, turned out to be the windows update services downloading win10 but due to some weird glitch it got stuck thus raising the CPU use.

Try windows + R- > type services.msc, in the new window search for windows updates and stop its service, see if that frees up your CPU.

 

[1800Warioman]

hmm I had a similar problem with a friend's computer, svchost.exe would use the CPU more than it should, turned out to be the windows update services downloading win10 but due to some weird glitch it got stuck thus raising the CPU use.

Try windows + R- > type services.msc, in the new window search for windows updates and stop its service, see if that frees up your CPU.

Okay I contacted Microsoft support and they somehow got Windows update to work which! also fixed the high CPU and RAM usage thank goodness! But the remaining problems include slow than normal boot times and icons, gadgets and all the mini icons down in the bottom right corner where action center and volume appears is also very slow when logging on which on my old install of Windows everything was already loaded in when I logged on so if its possible to fix that it would be great!

 

[1800Warioman]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

Yes, you do.

Well honestly I have already tried Windows 10 and was loving it then... Some of my Steam games wouldn't work AND it made my RAM usage very high so its not for me.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

Yes, you do.

Well honestly I have already tried Windows 10 and was loving it then... Some of my Steam games wouldn't work AND it made my RAM usage very high so its not for me.

Do yourself a favor and take some good advice when you get it. W10 is a far superior OS, faster, more stable and less resource intensive, if you do a fresh install. Do not compare a pure windows install like your 7 is to the result of upgrading from one OS to another.
And your steam games would probably work atleast.in compatibility mode. Google each of them and see.
As a sidenote, look at what is planned for the next W10 update: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-build-14942-ends-svchost-ram,32832.html
Note that that will increase ram usage slightly compared to W10, not W7.

 

[1800Warioman]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

Yes, you do.

Well honestly I have already tried Windows 10 and was loving it then... Some of my Steam games wouldn't work AND it made my RAM usage very high so its not for me.

Do yourself a favor and take some good advice when you get it. W10 is a far superior OS, faster, more stable and less resource intensive, if you do a fresh install. Do not compare a pure windows install like your 7 is to the result of upgrading from one OS to another.
And your steam games would probably work atleast.in compatibility mode. Google each of them and see.
As a sidenote, look at what is planned for the next W10 update: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-build-14942-ends-svchost-ram,32832.html
Note that that will increase ram usage slightly compared to W10, not W7.

Yes I know I have a separate install of Windows 10 on another SSD and its not an upgrade I ended up using it again and gave up on 7 the only problem is I had to move the install around by cloning drives and I think it may have slowed it down some.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

Yes, you do.

Well honestly I have already tried Windows 10 and was loving it then... Some of my Steam games wouldn't work AND it made my RAM usage very high so its not for me.

Do yourself a favor and take some good advice when you get it. W10 is a far superior OS, faster, more stable and less resource intensive, if you do a fresh install. Do not compare a pure windows install like your 7 is to the result of upgrading from one OS to another.
And your steam games would probably work atleast.in compatibility mode. Google each of them and see.
As a sidenote, look at what is planned for the next W10 update: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-build-14942-ends-svchost-ram,32832.html
Note that that will increase ram usage slightly compared to W10, not W7.

Yes I know I have a separate install of Windows 10 on another SSD and its not an upgrade I ended up using it again and gave up on 7 the only problem is I had to move the install around by cloning drives and I think it may have slowed it down some.

Proper cloning shouldn;t have slowed it. Regardless, why do you still cling to W7?

 

[1800Warioman]

Do a fresh install of W10 with your 8 key. That still works as far as i know.

Here's list of the steps to take for the best results:

Download the Media Creation Tool from here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/ and make a bootable USB wiht it.

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be the one with windows on it).

Disconnect all other drives except the one you are installing to.

Go into the BIOS and disable "CSM" and enable "Secure boot" in the Boot section.

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

**WARNING: THE FOLLOWING WILL WIPE AND ENTIRE DISK, NOT JUST A PARTITION**

Then hit SHIFT+F10 and:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(where x is the drive in case)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

Hit refresh, select the clean drive, and the "new". Windows will create several partition and auto-select the correct one to install to(you can also set the size of the partition after hitting "new", but you don't need to if you are using the whole drive).

But I don't want Windows 10.

Yes, you do.

Well honestly I have already tried Windows 10 and was loving it then... Some of my Steam games wouldn't work AND it made my RAM usage very high so its not for me.

Do yourself a favor and take some good advice when you get it. W10 is a far superior OS, faster, more stable and less resource intensive, if you do a fresh install. Do not compare a pure windows install like your 7 is to the result of upgrading from one OS to another.
And your steam games would probably work atleast.in compatibility mode. Google each of them and see.
As a sidenote, look at what is planned for the next W10 update: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-build-14942-ends-svchost-ram,32832.html
Note that that will increase ram usage slightly compared to W10, not W7.

Yes I know I have a separate install of Windows 10 on another SSD and its not an upgrade I ended up using it again and gave up on 7 the only problem is I had to move the install around by cloning drives and I think it may have slowed it down some.

Proper cloning shouldn;t have slowed it. Regardless, why do you still cling to W7?

Because I trusted 7 to not fail on me because I never EVER had any issues with it until now and how many of my friends had problems after getting 10 but its working well now just still sometimes when I boot up my mouse cursor starts lagging and some icons still have to load in I just remember right before I started having issues with 7 everything loaded in the instant I logged on. Who knows maybe my computers just dying.