freezing/deadlocking and all round bad performance

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You need to free up some space on your C: drive, in order for windows to operate correctly....

You can free up space on your C: drive, to allow windows some breathing room. You can use Treesize to find files on your machine that you may wish to delete.
  • First download and save the portable version of Privazer to your desktop.
  • Go through the options a set Privazer to your needs, select basic or advanced user.
  • When you are done setting Privazer to your needs, then click on start cleaning then scan.
  • This scan can take a while to complete, so it is best that you do it when you have some free time.



You can use the Everything Search Engine to find and remove files from your machine.
Searching for file extensions in Everything Search, to help you along the way is easy.
You can simply type .mp3 to find all of your music, or .mp4 to find your videos.
You can open the file from the tools gui by double clicking it, and then decide if it needs to go.

Using Master Seeker To Find Large Files Over 1 Gigabyte.​


  • Download Master Seeker to your desktop, right click it and run as administrator to start the application.
  • To search for files that are a certain size, you can use the search terms in the picture below.
  • By using this method you can find and delete files of a certain size, like 500mb or 1gb.




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  • Say you want to find all files 1gb or larger, you type 1gb into the search window of Master Seeker.
  • This will list all files on your machine that are 1gb give or take a few mb.
  • Then you simply right click and delete if you feel the file needs to go.
  • You can search for files of 2gb size, or 300 mb, obviously you want to seek out the larger files with this tool.




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while unchecking options in autoruns a number of them come up as 'failed to disable [insert program name], should i not worry about those and continue anyway?
 
Just make sure you right clicked and ran as admin autoruns.

If you are sure of that, then skip. And follow instructions for what you can, reboot the machine and test... let me know the outcome.
 
log in under another profile (create a new account if need be) and see if things are the same speed wise.

otherwise, it could be as simple as 'performance rot'.
you say it's about 3 years old, so a fresh install of Windows would yield the best results.
if the rig was fast when you first got it, a fresh install will take it back to that speed point.

yes, you have to reload everything, in itself a minor issue, but not only will you get your performance back, it'll also force you to backup your personal files, and remove 3 years of crap buildup as you only reload the current software you need.
 
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As noted, you are way too low on C: Disk space.
You only have 8GB of ram - not enough for gaming.
For testing I would
1) Get at least 30% free space on C Drive
Uninstall Nortons (Can be reinstalled later)
Uninstall Java.
Test
so a fresh install of Windows would yield the best results.
I Agree.
I would put a fresh install on a new SSD at least 1TB and only load windows and games/programs
Move all documents/photos/video etc to your other drives
 
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