I can't understand why it's responding so slowly.Īny suggestions? Any way to speed it up, or any ideas of things to monitor to find out what's going on?ġ) Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:ģ) dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealthĤ) dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealthġ0) When these have completed > right click on the top bar or title bar of the administrative command prompt box > left click on edit then select all > right click on the top bar again > left click on edit then copy > paste into the thread I haven't noticed any signs of thrashing, and often there is 4-6GB free when this happens. It might be at 10% CPU use until I try to do something 'difficult' like launching Quicken. When it's doing this, typically nothing special is running. Sometimes it gets really bad, and I have to reboot. It just feels clunky and slow much of the time. Web pages often take 20 or more seconds to render, even though a check says I have 100Mbps with 20ms ping.

I just started Quicken and it took 20 seconds to come up. Hit the Windows key and it sometimes takes 5 seconds or more to display the popup window.

So it's a reasonably capable system - and yet it is often/usually very sluggish. It has an Intel i7-8705g 3.10GHz CPU and 16GB RAM. I have a year-old HP Spectre x360 laptop, 15-ch0xx.