In upgrading to Windows 10 and then downgrading back to Windows 7, the new video card driver and a few other resources were no longer supported in Windows 7. Luckily they recognized a likely suspect and were able to find the problem quickly. If I didn’t run them regularly, the computer slowed to a standstill until it was cleaned.Īfter considering the nuclear option of wiping the system and reinstalling Windows, I instead called tech support.
I managed to limp along by running system cleaners every hour. Virus scanners and malware detection fixed some problems, but none of these stood out as the real issue. Under the assumption my computer was infected with a virus of some kind, I ran in-depth cleaning software. This is difficult to analyze as there is no single culprit. This came in the form of System Idle Processes utilizing 60-99% of my system’s resources. The problem grew worse until the CPU regularly operated at 100% with practically no services running. Then a few months later, I noticed an increasing slow-down of system resources. The system seemed to be working fine after reverting back to Windows 7. Again, features I needed to perform my daily tasks were not as one should expect.
WINDOWS 7 LAPTOP RUNNING SLOWLY DRIVERS
Within an hour I had uninstalled Windows 10.Ī few months later, I tried the same process again, hoping that the drivers and services would work.
This made opening any file a difficult task.
The first thing I noticed was that some of my programs weren’t working as needed.įor example, the built-in mousepad of the laptop had additional “features,” such as clicking the left button also moved the mouse due to an unresolved driver issue. Like many developers, I eagerly upgraded to Windows 10 for testing as soon as it was available. This may trigger issues that cause the computer to slooooooow down. What happens when you don’t like every feature in Windows 10? I chose to downgrade back to Windows 7.