Solved PC getting slow - does my Chkdsk scan results tell you anything?

The last several days my computer has been getting very slow and I'm trying to figure out why. Can anybody understand the results of my Chkdsk scan? Does it give any clues as to why my computer is slowing down to a crawl?



Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date: 6/17/2018 10:59:40 PM
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: David-PC
Description:


Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x18316.
481024 file records processed.

File verification completed.
2843 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

78 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
574220 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
481024 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 5042 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 5042 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 5042 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
46599 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37907560 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
481008 files processed.

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
33134428 free clusters processed.

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

312466775 KB total disk space.
179107136 KB in 367340 files.
221028 KB in 46600 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
600899 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
132537712 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
78116693 total allocation units on disk.
33134428 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 57 07 00 b3 50 06 00 e7 cf 0b 00 00 00 00 00 .W...P..........
85 0b 00 00 4e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....N...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Event Xml:
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<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2018-06-18T02:59:40.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>113665</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>David-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x18316.
481024 file records processed.

File verification completed.
2843 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

78 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
574220 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
481024 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 5042 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 5042 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 5042 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
46599 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37907560 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
481008 files processed.

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
33134428 free clusters processed.

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

312466775 KB total disk space.
179107136 KB in 367340 files.
221028 KB in 46600 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
600899 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
132537712 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
78116693 total allocation units on disk.
33134428 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 57 07 00 b3 50 06 00 e7 cf 0b 00 00 00 00 00 .W...P..........
85 0b 00 00 4e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....N...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

Hi kuurt,

It appears that you have duplicated the main body of the output as they are identical!
I have had a look through and I can't see anything that jumps out at me. Perhaps other members might see a problem.

Sorry, I know that this doesn't help much!

Hi kuurt,

kuurt said:

My computer is slowing down to a crawl?

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It is very difficult to know the reason why without more information!

Have you installed any new programs/software lately that could be having an impact?
Have you recently re-installed the OS and the Windows Updates is running?
Have you upgraded the Hardware?
Have you upgraded any Software?
Do you clean out the junk files etc on a regular basis?

There are obviously many many other things that could be causing this!

Have a look and see if there any new entries that have appeared in the Startup menu at boot:

Click Start > in the search box type msconfig > press Enter > click the Startup tab

This great tutorial by Brink might also help: How to Optimize Windows 7

I hope this helps!

David, slow PC can be due to hardware (like a bad disk) or due to software.
How is your start up (cold boot)?
Open Device manager. Is there any yellow alerts?
Open windows update and manually check for updates. Does it run forever?

Whatever it is that is causing my computer to freeze up and programs to become unresponsive, it's not doing it all the time. Just some of the time. Yesterday it didn't do it. So I thought I fixed the problem. But today it started doing it again. Whether I have several browsers open, or only one. I even tried a different browser and it still froze up. Other programs like windows media player also freezes up.

Have you installed any new programs/software lately that could be having an impact?

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I don't think so. I have updated keefox and sticky notes, but I wouldn't think these updates would do that.

Have you recently re-installed the OS and the Windows Updates is running?

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Windows updates is running and I have not recently re-installed the OS.

Have you upgraded the Hardware?

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NO

Have you upgraded any Software?

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Just updates.

Do you clean out the junk files etc on a regular basis?

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No, but yesterday I did disk cleaner and deleted temp files, but didn't help.

Have a look and see if there any new entries that have appeared in the Startup menu at boot:

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Hopefully I attached an image of my start up files correctly. There are some things on there that I don't know what they are. So I'm not sure if I can uncheck them. I usually don't have any freezing up trouble at start up. It usually starts after I've been on the computer for a while. Could it still be start up programs?

How is your start up (cold boot)?

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Good, normal.

Open Device manager. Is there any yellow alerts?

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Nope, none.

Open windows update and manually check for updates. Does it run forever?

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Nope, it didn't take but a second. I was up-to-date, except for 2 optional updates. One was Nivdia which I think is my graphics card drivers maybe. It wouldn't let me update it. It gave me an error code which means I already have that one installed or it would be a down grade. If my graphics card needs updating could that cause my computer to freeze up occasionally?

It's possible that this year's constant stream of dodgy W7 updates are responsible for the problem.

I don't know, it's really weird, some of the time my computer has no problems and other times it starts freezing up and not responding. It goes back and forth.

I've asked about WU because I had same problem. There was a problem with an update that prevented WU to work as it should. It began to search for updates forever and using all resources.
How much memory you have?

Please edit your profile with all your hardware specs.

I ran windows memory diagnostic and it said no memory errors. Does that mean that all of my 4 gigs of memory are working fine?

So it's not a virus, it's not maleware, I ran diskcleaner and deleted temp files. Memory is apparently ok.

I downloaded Speccy to check my internal temperatures. Supposedly if the temperatures are in yellow they're ok, but if they're in orange then they're getting hot. My CPU is currently in the orange at 62 degrees C. The other temps are in yellow. The temps keep going up and down, could this be causing my computer to freeze up at times while running fine at other times?

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Go to the Services tab on your System Configuration window. Check the box which says "Hide all Microsoft Services". Now select all and disable. Click Apply and then reboot the computer. See if the problem is solved.

If the above solves the problem, then one of your non-Microsoft services was slowing everything down. Go back into System Configuration / Services tab, and re-enable the non-Microsoft services, one at a time, rebooting after each re-enable. When the system slows back down, you will know which one was causing the problem. Make sure you disable that one, and keep it disabled; and make note of the name of that service. Continue re-enabling one service at a time, rebooting each time, to see if there are any other problematic services.

If this didn't solve the problem, then you don't have any bad services. Be sure to re-enable all of the services that you disabled.

If you have a clogged heat sink and temperatures rises above 90ºC, the MB and the CPU itself can low the clock to prevent frying the CPU. But don't think it's your case.
It can be that you have a lot of programs running in the background and your system gets to low free memory.
With 4G Win 7 32 would run better than Win 7 64.

I thought it might be an over heating issue because I never notice one of my fans kicking on. I have two fans, one in the back and one on the side and I never notice the one on the side kick on. However, so far the hotest I've see it get is 62 degrees C. For my particular CPU, 45 - 55 degrees C is normal. So I don't think 62 is that big of deal. I will continue to keep an I on the temp though.

Yesterday and so far today I have not had any problems what-so-ever. The only thing I've been doing differently, is that I switched from using Firefox to Chrome. I got a error message at one point while using Firefox which said Keyfox maybe slowing down Firefox. Keyfox is a firefox add on which works with Keypass. They save my passwords and log me in to different websites. I've never had problems with them before, but I'm wondering if something there might be causing my problems. There is two instances of Keypass in start up. I don't know if there is suppose to be two of them or just one of them there. I have also seen Firefox become unresponsive when I had the add on disabled and keypass closed, so maybe the problem is with Firefox. I don't know.

If that turns out to not be the problem and my computers starts freezing up again, I will try what Mrjimphelps said to do.

I do have Win 7, 64, but I was told that's ok with a dual core processor. I've had it set up that way for a long time now with no problems. And some times I do have a lot open - several browser tabs, and other programs. But, it was never a problem before. And I have tried closing everything except one or two tabs while the PC is freezing up, but even that didn't help.

I guess I'll give it a few more days and see what happens.

You're saying your PC is getting slower. What you noticed to make you feel it's slower?
You said that Boot times are normal, so what is wrong?

Boot time is normal. It's just that sometimes my browsers and other programs freeze up and stop responding or will take a really long time to do things. Other times I doesn't do that.

But like I said, it hasn't done it that last 2 days since I stopped using Firefox, so maybe it has something to do with it. Only time will tell.

Firefox sometimes has issues (on some machines) if you activate the Hardware Acceleration option.

I've never heard of the hardware acceleration option. I see that it only shows that option if you uncheck "use recommended performance settings". So I unchecked both of them because I can't tell if it checked when "use recommended performance settings" is checked. Since it doesn't show it.

-Download Open Hardware Monitor https://openhardwaremonitor.org/files/openhardwaremonitor-v0.8.0-beta.zip
-Unzip to C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenHardwareMonitor
- Run OpenHardwareMonitor.exe

Use your computer and then check min available memory.

It's been several days or so and I just wanted to report that this problem has been solved. Firefox and other programs are no longer freezing up.

I'm not exactly sure what fixed the problem. But I'm guessing it was when I unchecked recommended performance settings and hardware acceleration in Firefox, which lehnerus2000 told me about in #16 of this post.

The only other thing I did at that time was uncheck a couple of things in my start up folder. One was google updates and the other was something to do with hewlet packard. I have an HP printer and monitor, so maybe I shouldn't have unchecked that one, I don't know. But the problem wasn't occurring when I first logged on, it only froze up after I'd been on the computer for a while so I'm assuming it wasn't what I unchecked in start up.

Anyways. Thanks for all the help.

kuurt said:

It's been several days or so and I just wanted to report that this problem has been solved. Firefox and other programs are no longer freezing up.

I'm not exactly sure what fixed the problem. But I'm guessing it was when I unchecked recommended performance settings and hardware acceleration in Firefox, which lehnerus2000 told me about in #16 of this post.

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Mozilla changed the names/settings when they introduced their new version of Firefox.

I have the new version of FF installed in Linux Mint and it says something like, "use recommended performance settings".

You could always check if it was that setting by turning it back on and seeing if the issue returns.