Windows 10 sluggish

[nicoX]

Was on Windows 7, upgraded to 10. I had no issues at all with Windows 7, it ran very smooth. Now I experience small delays with Win 10, and games that ran fine with Win 7, are more or less unplayable because of huge lag.

Don't know what is wrong and if Win 10 is the issue here.

I have 16GB of RAM, my SSD is SATA II 3GB, I have a 6GB as well but couldn't assume that the 3GB which is running Windows is a bottleneck. But the board only supports 3GB.

Motherboard is quite old a MSI 790fx gd70, but it's good board and my CPU is AMD II Phenom x4 965 Black Edition, which is good as well.

My page file is on the 6GB disk, don't know if that is an issue with Win 10.

[MaSSive]

Check CPU/Disk usage in idle state. I had same problem with windows update using 50% of my cores at all times, making games also sluggish, so I was reading about the problem. If you find that CPU usage in idle state is anything more than ~10-15% open resource monitor and see which process uses cpu a lot. If its svchost.exe click on it once and see which service is hogging it below in table. Solution on the link below #4, but I did not delete those folders. Just try to stop the service ( dont try to run it! ) and reboot, and then open Updates and disable updates for all MS product then run the update check manually. If there is some update let it install and reboot when its finished. Check your CPU usage again, and if fine renable updates for all MS products if needed and check for updates again. All should be fine now.

http://www.wintips.org/how-to-fix-svcho ... solution-4

If it fails at any step, then try to delete folders as mentioned on the link. Note that this is only valid if your CPU and Disk usage is high at idle state. But Im guessing this might be issue cause theres a lot of reports about it recently. Forever beta...

I would also go to Settings > Privacy > Backgound Apps and disable anything I dont need ( which I did actually ).

Also a faulty driver might cause this issue or viruses and other malware, incompable software..etc


Edit: SATAIII ports ( 6GB advertised ) are backwards compatible with SATAII ( 3GB ) and SATA ( 1.5GB ), and so if you have SATAIII ports you can safely use SATAII drive on it. It wil run in its native speed ( 3GB if SATA II drive ), and will not cause any issues. Older SATA drives may require jumper caps in some case, but let that not bother you.

Obviously it will not work in reverse order, so SATAIII drive on SATAII port will not run inits native ( 6GB ) speed, but will fall back to SATAII. It wont cause performance issues, but SATAIII drive will not run at its full speed. Youcan measure that with free app such as Diskmark.

[nicoX]

I set the page file to a custom number 3000 MB.

I don't know why Windows managed the page file and allocated all my disk space to it, which was running out.

This fixed it!