Windows 10 delay and lag on brand new computer

[DejanMars]

I recently built computer with SSD. I installed Windows 10 Pro (clean install) and a few programs.



If I open right-click menu/ click on start menu, type on some form, move window... windows freezes for 2 - 10 seconds. Sometimes I can move mouse and see animations, but buttons don't respond.



That wired behaviour doesn't appear every time.



What I tried:

• 
  - Restart computer
  - Assign more memory to windows
  - Delete some Microsoft bloatware (like Xbox, MSN news, ...)

Computer specifications:

• 
  - CPU: Ryzen 5 1600X
  - GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB WINDFORCE OC
  - RAM: 8GB 2666 MHz
  - SanDisk SSD plus 240 GB
  - MOBO: MSI B350 PC MATE
  - OS: Windows 10 Pro (Slovenian) clean install

Some programs that I installed:

• 
  - MS office
  - Arduino
  - Netbeans
  - Android Studio
  - Firefox
  - WinRar
  - Java
  - Git
  - Photoshop (trial)
  - Drivers

Thanks in advance,
Dejan

 

[wpgwpg]

Start Task Manager and look at network activity. With new PCs Windows has to do a good bit of updates to get current. One other thing to look at is C: drive busy percentage. Sometimes your antivirus program can do a lot of I/O to the C: drive and cause these delays.

 

[DejanMars]

Start Task Manager and look at network activity. With new PCs Windows has to do a good bit of updates to get current. One other thing to look at is C: drive busy percentage. Sometimes your antivirus program can do a lot of I/O to the C: drive and cause these delays.

I already updated Windows.

My antivirus (Panda Dome) uses disk at 0.1 MBps.
System32/ntoskml.exe (System) sometimes uses up to 6Mbps.

Overall, disk usage jumps between 0% and 1%.

Network activity is all time on 0%.

 

[wpgwpg]

Check Device Manager for entries flagged with ! or ? to the left, indicating the need for the correct driver. You could also check the cryptic system event log for entries flagged ERROR. It's a lot like looking for a needle in a haystack, but that's the nature of the beast.

 

[DejanMars]

I checked Device Manager and all drivers are OK.
Sadly, I can't find cryptic event log. Is that in Event Viewer?

 

[wpgwpg]

Event viewer is in Control Panel -> Administrative tools.

 

[DejanMars]

Here is whole gallery of errors: https://imgur.com/a/ycg8yLG

 

[ElectrO_90]

If you boot it up into Windows Safe Mode, do you still have problems of it running slow and strange?
This is to see if even just windows on its own has a problem or is it something you installed after

 

[wpgwpg]

I don't see anything marked ERROR with a red circle and ! inside in the link you posted. What you're looking for is entries like the one in this link: https://imgur.com/a/EWOjVUH

 

[DejanMars]

@wpgwpg here is first image: https://i.imgur.com/CoLv6H9.png (i forget to post it).. and more errors here: ttps://i.imgur.com/wCQzMTe.png ...

Now the better news: I have no idea what I did, but after several (a lot of) restarts problem dissapeared (at least for now). I'll report here, if problem comes back.

Thanks a lot for your help,
Dejan

 

[wpgwpg]

I'm glad you got rid of the problem. The last link you posted showed a whole lot of critical errors in the data for the Get Started app. There was a comment at the bottom that it was attempting to correct corrupted data. I guess it finally succeeded in correcting the problem.