[SOLVED] Windows Lags/Stutters After Day of Use, Speeds Up After Restarting Explorer.exe in Task Manager

[jddg5wa]

So basically my PC runs like butter on startup. After using my pc for a while(about a day or so) it will lag/stutter but if I restart Explorer.exe in Task Manger it goes back to running like butter. I'm not sure what is causing this issue. I reinstalled Windows and it happened on a fresh install even. I don't have any viruses or such and all my hardware test fine.

Any idea what else might be causing this?

My computer is about 4 or 5 years old so could that contribute? Although like I said all my parts test fine and run at the speeds I would expect them too.

Specs
• MOBO: Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
• CPU: i7-4790K
• GPU: GTX980 ti
• RAM: 16gb
• MAIN Drive: SSD 860 Evo

 

[atomicWAR]

Memory leak maybe? But no telling...reinstall of windows may help...

 

[MCMunroe]

Why don't you just restart your computer every day? No need to leave it on forever.

That should be a nice system. Odd that a reinstall didn't sort it out.

 

[jddg5wa]

Memory leak maybe? But no telling...reinstall of windows may help...

I tried a reinstall already and it did seem to help, it isn't as bad as it used to be, but the same things happen. It's very weird. I think I checked for a memory leak before but not sure. I'll check again. Thanks for the suggestion.

Why don't you just restart your computer every day? No need to leave it on forever.

That should be a nice system. Odd that a reinstall didn't sort it out.

I usually do now but it slows down as the day goes on and often if I put a heavy load on the computer sometimes it won't speed up once things are closed. I'm wondering if it's a memory leak like mentioned, thought I had checked that but I'm gonna try again.

 

[MCMunroe]

I would suggest not running your backgound apps one by one to try and track down the culprit. Has to be a program with a memory leak or IO waits or something. Try killing windows indexer or something.

 

[jddg5wa]

I would suggest not running your backgound apps one by one to try and track down the culprit. Has to be a program with a memory leak or IO waits or something. Try killing windows indexer or something.

Oh! I forgot about windows indexer. I remember trying it in the past, cause I have terrabytes of data over like 6 hard drives so did think that could be slowing it down, but I don't think I entirely turned it off.

Anyways thanks for the suggestion. I have it entirely off now, disabled the service. I'll give that a test before checking the background apps manually.