This weekend File Explorer was slow accessing folders in my internal and external drives so I researched troubleshooting. (I have a docking station with 2 external hard drives.)
1. I ran SFC Scan to Repair Corrupt System Files in internal drives and found corrupt files and it successfully repaired them.
2. Then someone suggested I run chkdsk /r in Command Prompt. I did that and got the message: "chkdsk can not run because the volume is in use by another process".
3. I ran chkdsk from boot screen. I typed "chkdsk C: /r" in Command Prompt and ran it. I looked at Event Viewer and It said it completed Stages 1, 2 and 3 and after Stage 4 completed there was a message that said "File datafication completed. Unspecified error occurred (75736e......500). Failed to transfer logged messages to event log with status 6".
4. I did a clean boot and I really couldn't find any services that were slowing down my PC.
5. I ran chkdsk /r again and checked Event Viewer and it said "chkdsk was executed in scan mode. Checking file system on C:, Stage 1: Was not able to send command for self-healing due to lack of memory".
So I looked at Memory usage in Task Manager->Processes . Firefox is using the most memory and it's listed about 15 times! (I attached a screenshot of Processes.)
What does this mean? I have too many webpages open in Firefox? (I have a ton of webpages open in Firefox.) If I close as many webpages as I can in Firefox will this lower my Memory Usage? Skype is also using a bit of memory - I don't know what it is - I never use it nor Microsoft Edge. Can I uninstall these 2 services?
And I don't know if I ran chkdsk /r properly. Last few days File Explorer has been working 100% but I still want to know if I have any bad sectors on my PC drive.
1. I ran SFC Scan to Repair Corrupt System Files in internal drives and found corrupt files and it successfully repaired them.
2. Then someone suggested I run chkdsk /r in Command Prompt. I did that and got the message: "chkdsk can not run because the volume is in use by another process".
3. I ran chkdsk from boot screen. I typed "chkdsk C: /r" in Command Prompt and ran it. I looked at Event Viewer and It said it completed Stages 1, 2 and 3 and after Stage 4 completed there was a message that said "File datafication completed. Unspecified error occurred (75736e......500). Failed to transfer logged messages to event log with status 6".
4. I did a clean boot and I really couldn't find any services that were slowing down my PC.
5. I ran chkdsk /r again and checked Event Viewer and it said "chkdsk was executed in scan mode. Checking file system on C:, Stage 1: Was not able to send command for self-healing due to lack of memory".
So I looked at Memory usage in Task Manager->Processes . Firefox is using the most memory and it's listed about 15 times! (I attached a screenshot of Processes.)
What does this mean? I have too many webpages open in Firefox? (I have a ton of webpages open in Firefox.) If I close as many webpages as I can in Firefox will this lower my Memory Usage? Skype is also using a bit of memory - I don't know what it is - I never use it nor Microsoft Edge. Can I uninstall these 2 services?
And I don't know if I ran chkdsk /r properly. Last few days File Explorer has been working 100% but I still want to know if I have any bad sectors on my PC drive.