VERY GOOD SPECS BUT SLOW PC, please help me !!

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So I bought a second hand pc, it is 4 years old.
These are the specs:
i5-3570k
gtx 660
16gb ram
500gb hdd
128gb ssd
Corsair cX600
MSI H77MA-G43

As you can see, pretty good specs. But I have some problems and I think they have something to do with each other:

-When opening a program the first time it takes a lot of time(3 minutes) to load, but the second third... time it loads within a second.
-When using a program, or dropping a folder from a destionation to another destionation, or playing a game.. it doesn't respond for like 10 seconds then it starts working, after like 10 minutes it again doesn't respond...
-The first time I open a program(every program), every step that I do for the first time in that program will do it very slowly, than if I do the same step again, it will take 1 second.
Example: When I open CS 1.6 for the first time, it takes 2-5 minutes, then when I click on find servers in the game for the first time, it takes 1 minute to open the servers. When I restart Cs 1.6, it starts in seconds and if I click on find servers, it will do it within 1 second. There's really something wrong with my PC.

-When extracting winrar, winrar laggs the whole time and so the extraction of a small file takes a lot of time.

(Btw please don't tell me to do virus scans or us Malwarebytes because I have done that all and that didn't fix the problem, I think it has something to do with the HDD or something but the programs from the ssd also start very slow the first time..)

Please help me.
 
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Please download MiniToolBox and save it to your desktop. Run the program by right clicking on it and selecting Run as administrator. When the program opens select the following boxes:


List last 10 Event Viewer Errors
List Installed Programs
List Devices (Only Problems)
List Users, Partitions and Memory size

Please post the log in your next reply :)
 
Where do you have Windows installed? On the SSD or the 500Gb HDD?
Where do you have the programs that take long to start, but afterwards start quickly?
If you have them on the 500GB HDD this is to be expected.

I have something similar on my system as I have W10 on an SSD, and my movies on two 150 GB Velociraptors (10000 rpm).
Even though these are corporate drives and much faster then ordinary HDDs, it takes a few seconds for them to start spinning to working speed, but subsequent requests are answered REALLY fast.
 
georgeks said:
Where do you have Windows installed? On the SSD or the 500Gb HDD?
Where do you have the programs that take long to start, but afterwards start quickly?
If you have them on the 500GB HDD this is to be expected.

I have something similar on my system as I have W10 on an SSD, and my movies on two 150 GB Velociraptors (10000 rpm).
Even though these are corporate drives and much faster then ordinary HDDs, it takes a few seconds for them to start spinning to working speed, but subsequent requests are answered REALLY fast.
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Windows is installed in the SSD.Apps and other things are in the HDD.
But in my school there are very old pc's but they start very fast even the first time...
 
The term "very old PC" means nothing.

If you uninstall your programs and re-install them on the SSD you will see that they will start faster.
 
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