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I have a laptop with an Intel i5-6200U CPU, 8 gigs of RAM and a WD HDD. While I realise that it is a low power laptop processor, I feel that the windows admin tools, and task manager take absolutely an eternity to open up - the task manager routinely takes 15 seconds to load up, if not more. On several of my friends' laptops with comparable processors - including laptops running on the i5-5200U. Even the User Account Control is pretty slow to open up.
A particularly queer aspect of my laptop is that all the above actually are faster with MATLAB running in the backround - the task manager opens instantaneously, for example.
Any help would be appreciated.
Anirudh Dwarakanath
Posted 2017-08-25T12:09:32.387
Reputation: 1
Typically when I encountered this problem it was caused by I/O errors due to a failing HDD – Ramhound – 2017-08-25T12:13:13.637
I have a new HDD, I replaced it when the previous one failed, in April this year. I've had the problem since then. – Anirudh Dwarakanath – 2017-08-26T02:05:44.323
So what is the S.M.A.R.T status indicate? – Ramhound – 2017-08-26T02:10:01.713
Smartmontools claims that my disk passed the health parameters. However, Spin-up time and seek error rate threw up speed flags due to high values. I must add, I forgot, that the HDD I added is non-OEM. – Anirudh Dwarakanath – 2017-08-26T20:38:42.183
Just wanted to add - I had a rainmeter that includes stuff about the stirage usage, and a mini task manager. Disabling it appreciably improved my the above mentioned tools - the task manager, for example opened in 2.8 - 4 seconds, which I guess is the best I can get. But why? I even tried with firefox and spotify running in the background. – Anirudh Dwarakanath – 2017-08-27T02:33:13.687
And, I forgot to add, with MATLAB (resource hog) in the background, the task manager loaded consistently in under a second, disk manager and device manager in a second and a half, give or take, and UAC instantaneous – Anirudh Dwarakanath – 2017-08-27T02:42:28.853