Windows 10 Lag and Stutter on Startup

babelmh13

babelmh13

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Preface: I'm sadly reaching an age where I have less desire to fix this stuff on my own for hours to prove that I don't need help :(

For the last month, when I boot up my pc (I have the latest version on Windows 10), windows will startup, but when I move my mouse it will freeze every few seconds, for a few seconds up to maybe 10. If I actually get it hovered over a program to open, it takes a while to actually register a click.

Further, if I am able to get a program open (Discord for example) itll take me a minute or two to get to a peraons name, and place a call and when I do, the call will lag as well. Similar results from other programs, so it os not a mouse related issue.

I have this issue probably 7/10 times I boot up which is typically around 6pm each day. If I hard power off my computer and turn it back on, this fixes the problem every time.

I do not have Fast Boot turned on, or hibernate. I checked my startup programs, nothing unusual. I do see some CPU spikes while this is going on. Nothing jumps out at me on the Event Viewer.

Any thoughts gentleman?

Thanks
 
babelmh13 said:
Preface: I'm sadly reaching an age where I have less desire to fix this stuff on my own for hours to prove that I don't need help :(

For the last month, when I boot up my pc (I have the latest version on Windows 10), windows will startup, but when I move my mouse it will freeze every few seconds, for a few seconds up to maybe 10. If I actually get it hovered over a program to open, it takes a while to actually register a click.

Further, if I am able to get a program open (Discord for example) itll take me a minute or two to get to a peraons name, and place a call and when I do, the call will lag as well. Similar results from other programs, so it os not a mouse related issue.

I have this issue probably 7/10 times I boot up which is typically around 6pm each day. If I hard power off my computer and turn it back on, this fixes the problem every time.

I do not have Fast Boot turned on, or hibernate. I checked my startup programs, nothing unusual. I do see some CPU spikes while this is going on. Nothing jumps out at me on the Event Viewer.

Any thoughts gentleman?

Thanks
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Any suspicion it might be hard drive related? Also just do a general check to make sure all temperatures are in the normal range.
 
Furious_Styles said:
Any suspicion it might be hard drive related? Also just do a general check to make sure all temperatures are in the normal range.
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Didnt have any suspicion of a drive, though it could be I suppose. My OS is on a Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD gen 4 installed about 8 months ago. Though I have 2 HDDs and 1 M4 Crucial SSD that is 12 years old. I pulled that out yesterday and will see if there are any differences.

After you mentioned the drives, I did notice that Ill be playing a game for a couple hours, and when I close the game out, one of the drives sounds as it may be firing up. Maybe the recent windows update change my drive sleep settings, so I will check that too.
 
babelmh13 said:
Didnt have any suspicion of a drive, though it could be I suppose. My OS is on a Samsung 980 Pro NVME SSD gen 4 installed about 8 months ago. Though I have 2 HDDs and 1 M4 Crucial SSD that is 12 years old. I pulled that out yesterday and will see if there are any differences.

After you mentioned the drives, I did notice that Ill be playing a game for a couple hours, and when I close the game out, one of the drives sounds as it may be firing up. Maybe the recent windows update change my drive sleep settings, so I will check that too.
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You might try disconnecting all but your OS drive and see if it stops the lag.
 
Furious_Styles said:
You might try disconnecting all but your OS drive and see if it stops the lag.
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Update: today turned on my pc, it booted up and about 2 minutes later I got the blue screen saying "Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart." The stop code was "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION". I forgot to mention that I have gotten this a few times over the last month as well. Only within 3-5 minutes of boot. Only happens first boot of the day.
 
The only thing I can think of that possibly could have caused this, is I put a program directly into the windows startup folder hoping i could get it to open on startup correctly. I couldnt, and deleted it out of the folder after about a week. Perhaps that could be causing the error somehow?
 
babelmh13 said:
The only thing I can think of that possibly could have caused this, is I put a program directly into the windows startup folder hoping i could get it to open on startup correctly. I couldnt, and deleted it out of the folder after about a week. Perhaps that could be causing the error somehow?
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Unlikely. From reading up on that particular error it seems like it's most commonly a driver issue. Might need to run DDU and check other drivers as well.
 
Hi babelmh13,

Have you checked your system files with SFC (sfc /scannow)?
 
sfc/scannow cleaned some stuff up but did not fix the issue..

I will try and run DDU next and report back
 
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