Old trouble adhere yet

[hz363]

Dear Sir/Madam:

My w10 often very slow. Each slow-speed-time, I need to do:

“Disk-Cleanup” and “Defragment-and-Optimize-Drivers” both procedures. After doing the both procedures, the w10 recover to normal speed.   The normal speed maintains 3-days, I need to do  the both procedures again!!

The 2nd procedure “Optimize Driver” has desigened to:

             Scheduled optimization ON  Drivers

            are being optimized  automatically. 

            Frequency: Daily.

But I never feel that the “optimize” is working!

My feeling is that the  both-procedure is out of order. Could you tell me the exact reason??           ---  Zhao

[WAWood]

@hz363 

Windows 10 is going to be painfully slow every few days.  Why? Because it automatically searches for, downloads, and installs Windows Updates every week.  When that happens, the PC grinds to a halt until that is finished.  There is nothing you can do about this other than wait it out.

[hz363]

   Hello  WAWood: 

   Thanks for your reply. You paid me an unusual explanation. 

    If my trouble is due to the cause as what you told me, why 

there is no other w10 suffering from the same trouble. 

                                                  -- Zhao

[hz363]

   Hello WAWood:

This morning my pc slow-trouble burst again.

In past one week, no any trouble.

This morning, I boosted the pc as usual. BUT after boosted, it doesn’t

responses to any “click”, Even click the “start”, no response. 

Later, it said:

                No response. If you wait again, it may response.

                            Do you wait or end.

I end it and restart the pc again and do both “clean up” and “Optimize”

both procedures. After doing the both, it recovered to normal as usual.

Could you tell me the possible possibilities of this trouble!

                                         ---  Zhao

[WAWood]

@hz363 

There is no simple way to pinpoint the cause of this slowdown.

Windows Updates do come out every week, and depending when you connect a PC to the Internet and start the process, that is when it will slow down for a while.  But after it is done, it should not then be slowing down until around the same time the next week.

Unless a disk is nearly completely full, lack of disk space is not going to cause a PC to slow down.  Windows needs space for working files and buffers, but it does not need a lot of space.  So, if the drive is only 80% full or less, this should not be an issue.

Disk optimization is simply defragging, and while that was a necessity with the really small and slow drive of years ago, Windows 10 does background defragging on its own, so there should be no need to do it on your own.

And finally, if the drive was failing, that would slow it down but that would make the boot time very long and it would present serious lag when launching apps -- neither of which you have mentioned.

So no, I don't have any immediate solution.

[hz363]

Hello WAWood:

Could there be one reason for my pc slow down now and then: malignant 

virus attack.?             -- Zhao

[hz363]

     I am sorry and happy to hear that there is no pinpoint way for this trouble.

Up to today no one tell me the way or reason!       -- Zhao

[WAWood]

@hz363 

Claiming it is a virus attack, while possible, is extremely unlikely -- as virus writers normally want to take over a PC to ransom it -- to demand payment to free up the PC's files.  Merely slowing a PC down gets them nothing in return.