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I'm using an MSI GP60 2PE Leopard running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. It has gotten a bit slugging, but it is very slow and prone to freezing 1 or 2 minutes after logging in. The hard drive light is on constantly during this period. To make things even worse, this is a gaming computer, which shouldn't really be having these problems. So it's either start up programs or drivers that are causing problems.

One time I made a new partition and installed windows 10 on it. It was running smoothly. But then I ran the driver installation disk that came with the laptop on windows 10, and I noticed the frame rate decreased. So drivers seem to be the main culprit.

I went back into windows 7 and opened up device manager and checked how many drivers there were. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until I came across the system devices. There were 35 drivers installed there.

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More info: Chrome takes half a minute to get ready after first run on windows session.

Edit: Games run smoothly and don't seem to be affected by this problem. Edit: The computer runs snappily after the hard drive calms down. Disabling Superfetch (made sure it didn't re enable after reboot) didn't speed up boot. Here was the disk i used to install drivers:

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  • Start with Process explorer. can you find the process generating the IO? failing that Filemon or Procmon should give you some idea. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx – Frank Thomas Jan 03 '16 at 00:54
  • "It has gotten a bit slugging, but it is very slow and prone to freezing 1 or 2 minutes after logging in." indicates an HDD I/O problem. "There were 35 drivers installed there." what is odd about that? – Ramhound Jan 03 '16 at 00:56
  • @Ramhound So it's normal to have 35 drivers under system devices? – FluorescentGreen5 Jan 03 '16 at 05:38
  • the disk IO activity can be caused by superfetch service – magicandre1981 Jan 03 '16 at 08:24
  • Check your hard drive for SMART errors How can I read my hard drive's SMART status in Windows 7?, and What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive? – DavidPostill Jan 03 '16 at 13:52
  • @FluorescentGreen - Its not unusual. – Ramhound Jan 03 '16 at 14:04
  • @FrankThomas I set Process Explorer to run at startup. And the first thing i saw on it was a spike. I hovered over it and it said Steam.exe. 5 minutes later, another spike which said Skype.exe. Is steam and skype known for computer startup slowdowns? – FluorescentGreen5 Jan 03 '16 at 23:39
  • well, you said your case IO light was on solid, so that doesn't indicate discrete spikes. can you see the IO activity that accounts for the light? – Frank Thomas Jan 04 '16 at 08:13
  • @magicandre1981 i have disabled superfetch and it hasn't helped. guys you have to remember the suspicion lies in the installer disk i used: http://i.stack.imgur.com/jaw4k.jpg – FluorescentGreen5 Mar 03 '16 at 05:06
  • Install the WPT (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4847.install-the-windows-performance-toolkit-wpt.aspx also works for win7),run WPRUI.exe, select First Level, DiskIO, FileIO and under Performance Scenario select Boot. Number of iterationcan be set to 1 and click to start. This reboots Win7 and captures the Disk activity during boot. After the reboot let the countdown tick to 0 to capture 2 minutes of activity after boot. Zip the large ETL file into zip/RAR file, upload the zip (OneDrive, dropbox, google drive) and post the share link here. – magicandre1981 Mar 03 '16 at 05:14
  • @magicandre1981 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5U7QaUZvUenUTczaHlQVFFVc0E/view?usp=sharing also while the problem is still there, my computer is working faster during busy hard drive than is was before – FluorescentGreen5 Mar 04 '16 at 00:59
  • any update on it? – magicandre1981 Mar 26 '16 at 07:38
  • the problem of a computer being slow is minimal now, without uninstalling Trend Micro. Trend Micro has already been paid for and I don't know that many other good AV's out there, so switching to a new AV is not going to be a good idea. i dont want to have to replace my hard drive as i have lots of stuff i don't want to bother transferring and ssd's don't come cheap. unless you know anything about the msi driver utilities disc affecting performance, i don't think there is anything left to do – FluorescentGreen5 Mar 29 '16 at 00:14

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I checked the trace with WPA and I can see that coreServiceShell.exe causes a lot of DiskIO. I see that the file coreServiceShell.exe belongs to Trend Micro Anti-Malware. So uninstall Trend Micro and try a different Av suite.

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To really speedup your gaming laptop, replace the WD Blue 2.5" HDD with an SSD.

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