Reasons for a windows device to operate very slow
How do we diagnose the root cause of the slowdown 01. Low Hard Disk Drive Health Low health of your HDD (Hard Disk Drive) or SSD (Solid State Drive) causes Windows to operate at a very slower speed and sometimes might even give BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) errors. You can check your HDD/SSD health using Hard Disk Sentinel Software. It is a paid software but there is a free trial period, which is plenty to check your HDD/SSD health status. 02. Your Windows Version Newer versions of Windows 10 and 11 (Windows 10 Ver. 20H1 and above) are only optimized to run on SSDs and due to that mechanical HDDs struggle to operate due to their slower data read and write speeds. Sometimes even go to 100% usage if you check it in Task Manager. To better understand this, Watch this video below to get an idea of the speed differences of various storage technologies. 03. Check all HDD/SSDs connected If you are running multiple storage devices, you have to check health of all drives. Sometimes Windows strugg...