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General Slowdown

There has been some changes since all this, generally good, except I am not using my Logitech Set Point software anymore, which of course, is inconvenient. However, after several days of starts, restarts and shutoffs, the system has apparently "tuned" itself for fast boot and shutdown...
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- Post #19
- Apr 13, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

My drive is only 1 quarter full, surprising for only 250 Gigs. I recently reinstalled the Intel Rapid Storage and my machine now seems to boot faster than it has been for a long time, but still not like it once did, also, there is still several seconds of solid hourglass next to the mouse cursor...
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- Post #18
- Mar 31, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

Some time ago, in order to access setup, I had to reset the BIOS using the convenient button on my motherboard. I had Quick Boot enabled and had to disable it in order to access setup. So the BIOS has all been reset. As for the HDD driver, it and many others were uninstalled and reinstalled with...
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- Post #16
- Mar 26, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

just over 600 something for reads, nearly 700 for writes, since the disc uses the same rapid write system formerly only on the EVO series, now all the Samsung drive have that rapid write software running with them. Writes used to be a lot less and that was way back in the beginning before the...
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- Post #13
- Mar 24, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

I'm running a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H motherboard with windows 8.1 64 bit. Since I use an SSD, defrag is out of the question but the Windows built in Trim function appears to be working just fine. As mentioned, all the drivers are up to date and from Gigabyte, except for the sound and graphics...
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- Post #10
- Mar 21, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

I have run more than one malware checker and all seems clean on the home front. In Event Viewer, there are many warnings, errors, etc. in many categories but all my research on that seems to indicate that this is common all over and that unless a message actually pops up, I should just ignore...
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- Post #6
- Mar 19, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

I have tried all you have mentioned except for the restore point since that was so long ago. All seems to be OK concerning all else, as far as I can tell. Of course, with a clean boot, it starts faster, as one would expect, but still seems less fast than before the slowdown. Don't get me wrong...
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- Post #5
- Mar 19, 2014
- Forum: Computer Building
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General Slowdown

Ever since about late October, after a reboot, I seemed to have lost the blazing boot times and shutoff times as well as general program loading times that I enjoyed immediately before that time. Before that time, it was perhaps several seconds from the time the Win 8 symbol appeared, went off...
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- Mar 18, 2014
- Replies: 18
- Forum: Computer Building

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