Currently have a Huawei Matebook D15, Ryzen 5, 8gb ram. Comes with a 220gb HD and extra 1TB onboard SSD...All stock, bought about 3 or 4 years ago. Been a great computer, only use it for general stuff...no heavy gaming or anything

 

Lately notice it chugging a bit for no apparent reason. Not particularly opening any programs, just laggy. I have done a defrag on both drives and cleaned up the drives with an optimizer. My PC knowledge very basic. Not an internet issue, still good speed on internet and chugging on general non internet programs. Don't have anything synched to Clouds etc AFAIK

Does anyone have any advice or anything I could check?

 

Anyway I could check whats running in the background or sucking Ram? I haven't installed anything new lately

 

Any advice appreciated

 

 

 

 

Hold down the Ctrl and the Alt key and press the Del key.  This will open a small menu.  Click on 'Task Manager' and that will open and show you what is running and using CPU and memory.

I think I worked it out. In settings / storage there is a folder you can delete old Windows version / unessacary files. Was about 40gb. Running like a new one now 🙂 Thanks for your help.

6 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

I think I worked it out. In settings / storage there is a folder you can delete old Windows version / unessacary files. Was about 40gb. Running like a new one now 🙂 Thanks for your help.

 

 

Even better is to delete ALL Windows files and replace them with Linux.

 

Or load the version of  Windows X-Lite that you like.  Windows 10 and 11 available.  Much, much smaller than Windows from MS, and it doesn't phone home.

2 hours ago, Freddy42OZ said:

Even better is to delete ALL Windows files and replace them with Linux.

 

Unless, of course, you're one of the majority that uses programs that won't run under Linux. 

 

Or, you may have the time and patience to download a bunch of Linux programs then spend hours and hours reformatting all your files because they never seem to get them looking quite right.

 

If I were to get started today in home computing, I'd avoid Windows.  There are great alternatives out there today.  But there weren't when I built an entire library of files using Windows, starting with Win3.0.  And I'm always opening a reference spreadsheet for wire sizes, and a ton of others I've built over the years.

 

8 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

I think I worked it out. In settings / storage there is a folder you can delete old Windows version / unessacary files. Was about 40gb. Running like a new one now 🙂 Thanks for your help.

 

Out of curiosity, how much empty hard drive space do you have now?