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Random freezes and extremely slow copy-paste speeds Windows 7

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Copy-paste speeds below 1MBps. It was only malfunctioning with speed with Adata hdd before now its with the WD one too. The computer just freezes while copy-pasting and many times while playing videos or randomly too. However, the copy-paste when I connect my phone is as good as before. I know its an old system but please someone help me! I have already tried an alternate copy-paste software called teracopy. Didn't make any difference! The Belarc test results are as below.

Operating System Windows 7 Ultimate Service Pack 1 (build 7601)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)
Installed: 26-Apr-15 10:04:02 PM
Boot Mode: BIOS (Secure Boot not supported)

System Model MAXTONE 945GC(HIS) 3.0
System Serial Number: 1131
Enclosure Type: Desktop

Processor a 2.20 gigahertz Intel Pentium Dual E2200
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Not hyper-threaded

Main Circuit Board b Board: MAXTONE 945GC(HIS) 3.0
Bus Clock: 200 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 080012 05/05/2008

Drives 2000.40 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
34.45 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

ELBY CLONEDRIVE SCSI CdRom Device [Optical drive]

WDC WD20EARX-008FB0 [Hard drive] (2000.40 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WCAZAH124779, rev 51.0AB51, SMART Status: Healthy

Memory Modules c,d 2048 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty Local Drive Volumes





c: (NTFS on drive 0) *
113.25 GB14.18 GB free​

d: (NTFS on drive 0)
1887.15 GB20.27 GB free​


* Operating System is installed on c:

Network Drives None detected

Users (mouse over user name for details) local user accountslast logonlocal system accounts
Admin 12-Jun-18 8:01:26 PM(admin)
Home 25-Apr-18 3:20:34 PM
Administrator 14-Jul-09 10:23:58 AM(admin)
Guest 23-Nov-17 2:42:24 AM
HomeGroupUser$never
Marks a disabled account; Marks a locked account


Printers None detected

Controllers ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (2x)
ATA Channel 1 [Controller]
Intel(R) ICH7 Family Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF
Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0

Display NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 [Display adapter]
Samsung S22B300 [Monitor] (19.9"vis, s/n ZUMWHMBC902565, September 2012)

Bus Adapters Virtual CloneDrive
Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 27C8
Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 27C9
Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 27CA
Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 27CB
Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 27CC

Multimedia High Definition Audio Device
NVIDIA High Definition Audio (4x)

Virus Protection [Back to Top]
Microsoft Security Essentials
Virus Definitions Version Up To Date
Realtime File Scanning On
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Version 3.3.1.2183
Last Disk Scan on Friday, 18 May, 2018 4:09:04 PM
Realtime File Scanning Off
AVG Antivirus
Virus Definitions Version Up To Date
Realtime File Scanning On


Group Policies None detected

Communications



Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
↑ Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller
primaryAuto IP Address:192.168.1.100 / 24

Gateway:192.168.1.1

Dhcp Server:192.168.1.1

Physical Address:00:21:97:13:0E:22

Connection Speed:100 Mbps
Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface

Networking Dns Servers:199.85.126.10
199.85.127.10


Other Devices HID-compliant consumer control device
HID-compliant device
USB Input Device (3x)
HID Keyboard Device
HID-compliant mouse
USB Composite Device
USB Root Hub (5x)
Generic volume shadow copy

USB Storage Use in past 30 Days (mouse over last used for details) [Back to Top] Last Used
WD My Passport 0748, s/n WX91E13CNT69, rev 102212-Jun-18 11:07:45 AM*
JetFlash Transcend 32GB, s/n 836031222, rev 1.0007-Jun-18 5:29:35 PM*
ADATA HV620, s/n 4431366C3002, rev 543805-Jun-18 2:47:30 PM*
WD My Passport 0820, s/n WXU1EB3WLCW9, rev 100703-Jun-18 11:16:02 AM*
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk, s/n NA0JPTQT, rev 015524-May-18 9:23:31 PM*
* Possibly used again before the reboot following this time.


Hosted Virtual Machines (mouse over name for details) [Back to Top] None detected

 
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lets see for starters you only have 2GB of ram the min you really need is 4GB for win7 Ultimate when windows copies stuff it uses ram to cache the read data before writing it to it's destination say file from folder x on C drive to folder Y on D drive not enough ram leads to the copy function stalling all the time because the cache keeps getting filled to quickly and can't be written to the HDD fast enough so it has to wait

Also having not enough RAM will lead to all the other symptoms your describing aswell
 
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Okay but it use to work perfectly before so why only now has this problem surfaced? I have two ram sticks just laying around useless because the other ram slot on the motherboard is not working so I have no option to increase it. I started using the windows basic theme since a few days and it has probably reduced the time it took to recover every time it freezed. Will formatting it with something like Win 7 Home Premium make it go away?
 

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Other crap on the rig, are you on hdd or ssd?
 
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have you run a disk clean up yet? back up everything important to an external hard drive and delete what you do not need from both drives, ie photo's, documents etc.... Just leave on your system what you need and use everyday. Looks like your hard drives are full or with in 10% of being maxed. Or like @eidairaman1 said you may have other stuff running. One of our more experienced people maybe able to confirm, but looks like OP is close to maxing out space on hdd. Could page file/virtual memory coupled with not enough ram and hdd space slow it down too?
 

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have you run a disk clean up yet? back up everything important to an external hard drive and delete what you do not need from both drives, ie photo's, documents etc.... Just leave on your system what you need and use everyday. Looks like your hard drives are full or with in 10% of being maxed. Or like @eidairaman1 said you may have other stuff running. One of our more experienced people maybe able to confirm, but looks like OP is close to maxing out space on hdd. Could page file/virtual memory coupled with not enough ram and hdd space slow it down too?

Yes it can, when ram runs out it refers to paging.
 
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Paging has been saving me ig. It has been set to automatic. Earlier it was set to max but since the freezes began, I set it to auto (don't know if it helped or not). As far as I can tell, there is no other stuff running in the background. I uninstalled many softwares that I didn't need. Now it is just the bare minimum. I even changed the av and it helped to speed up the system a little.

@eidairaman1 You will have to go a little slower with the bios etc. I have never done that before. I would just install a free driver updating software if I thought it has been long. That's all I know about what I don't see if that makes any sense.

@flmatter If by disk clean you mean disk cleanup, then yes there's nothing useless on the drive. Even when there were 100s of GBs free on the drive, it still was acting the same.

@Athlonite After you mentioned the RAM, Readyboost came to my mind so I attached a 32gb pendrive to the back, formatted it to exFAT 2048bytes as was suggested on a page I searched
and tried copying on the portable WD drive. It had slowed down to less than 1MBps just a few hours ago but it worked like before now and probably even faster. But when I checked on the Adata hdd, it was still the same. The Adata hdd works at good speeds like it should when I connect it to my phone so its probably not that hdd. The computer is still freezing but the copy-paste to one of the drives is fixed maybe


@eidairaman1 It is a regular HDD not SSD

Did a full deep scan with avg. It didn't find anything.

The GPU is Galaxy GTS 450

Played an hour long video. It didn't freeze even once. Usually it freezes at least 4-5 times
 

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Being a HDD, you need to do a disk defragmentation, by the way the hdd head has to move to the paging area of the platter, hence the sluggishness with larger files.
Paging has been saving me ig. It has been set to automatic. Earlier it was set to max but since the freezes began, I set it to auto (don't know if it helped or not). As far as I can tell, there is no other stuff running in the background. I uninstalled many softwares that I didn't need. Now it is just the bare minimum. I even changed the av and it helped to speed up the system a little.

@eidairaman1 You will have to go a little slower with the bios etc. I have never done that before. I would just install a free driver updating software if I thought it has been long. That's all I know about what I don't see if that makes any sense.

@flmatter If by disk clean you mean disk cleanup, then yes there's nothing useless on the drive. Even when there were 100s of GBs free on the drive, it still was acting the same.

@Athlonite After you mentioned the RAM, Readyboost came to my mind so I attached a 32gb pendrive to the back, formatted it to exFAT 2048bytes as was suggested on a page I searched
and tried copying on the portable WD drive. It had slowed down to less than 1MBps just a few hours ago but it worked like before now and probably even faster. But when I checked on the Adata hdd, it was still the same. The Adata hdd works at good speeds like it should when I connect it to my phone so its probably not that hdd. The computer is still freezing but the copy-paste to one of the drives is fixed maybe



@eidairaman1 It is a regular HDD not SSD

Did a full deep scan with avg. It didn't find anything.

The GPU is Galaxy GTS 450

Played an hour long video. It didn't freeze even once. Usually it freezes at least 4-5 times

By the way the bios thing does not apply to you, it's in my signature for idiots who brick their cards.
 
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@eidairaman1 Oh man! Thanks for replying! I thought I was just abandoned by all the experts on the forum. I tried to defragment like you said but it showed that the drive was 0% fragmented since it was set to automatically run every wednesday 1am but I still analyzed and it still showed 0% fragmentation. One thing I would like to mention is that whenever I opened task manager and it froze, the cpu was fluctuating and functioning but the RAM seemed to get stuck at somewhere around 80%. I had conducted the built in memory test a few days ago but it showed no faults in it. Are there any kind of other free tests I can run that can determine what the problem is or is it just all about having a terribly low amount of ram? Will switching to another AV again help? If yes, what would you suggest in the scenario?
 

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@eidairaman1 Oh man! Thanks for replying! I thought I was just abandoned by all the experts on the forum. I tried to defragment like you said but it showed that the drive was 0% fragmented since it was set to automatically run every wednesday 1am but I still analyzed and it still showed 0% fragmentation. One thing I would like to mention is that whenever I opened task manager and it froze, the cpu was fluctuating and functioning but the RAM seemed to get stuck at somewhere around 80%. I had conducted the built in memory test a few days ago but it showed no faults in it. Are there any kind of other free tests I can run that can determine what the problem is or is it just all about having a terribly low amount of ram? Will switching to another AV again help? If yes, what would you suggest in the scenario?

Ok open a cmd prompt, Run Defrag (Drive which is typically C:)

Enter this at the Prompt

Defrag C: /H /X /U /V

Let it run, you may want to turn off your AV while this goes on and any running tasks such as webbrowsers.

Switching AVs wont help as most require 4GB of ram minimum now, Windows 64bit requires 4GB just to run smoothly. Less than 4GB=32Bit Windows.
 

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wondering about running Hard Disk Sentinel on it. I don't see any message about checking the drives, wondering if he's got bad sectors....
 
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smells like failing hard drive to me,
as @Ahhzz said, try to run some harddisk diagnostic software like hd sentinel
 
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from some one who had an E2200 ten years ago when they were new:

no disrespect intended but that rig/chip is not only old but even when new was entry level. i had one for a little over a year and though a great improvement over the P3 system i had . . it was susceptible to slow downs and at times things would take 3x longer than before.

after pulling my hair trying to chase down the problem, i found reformatting and reinstalling W7 made everything new again. and then i would visit black viper to configure the services running to more my style - entry level system.

which leads me to suggesting you lay off installing third party software for driver stuff or anything else, which includes running THREE AV programs. only ONE good one, like malwarebyte and turn off that security junk that will bug you to run MS essentials. just be smart with clicking stuff -- no AV program is bullet proof enough to cover stupidity.

so yeah, nuke and reinstall the OS and then streamline/tweak windows for your hardware. srly, three years since the last? i'm sure there is a bunch of stuff getting clogged up by now no matter how much "maintenance" (disk defrag, ect.) you've done.
 
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smells like failing hard drive to me

This, this is what happened to my friend's laptop. It just got more and more sluggish until bam, hard drive was totally dead. The drive was not making any suspect clicking noises that I am familiar with. A linear read of the drive with a speed report along the way should be a starting indicator.
 

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... drives full, free up some space and run a defrag.
 
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A 10 year old system ? .... in PC years that's 212, Same HD ... Im surprised it's still running.
 
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I had a very similar situation with my old Windows 7 PC. I'm confident it wasn't so much the operating system, as it was my old Sandy Bridge chipset, possibly in combination with windows 7, because when I switched to windows 10 pre-release ,the problem was alleviated for the most part. I used to get extremely slow transfer speeds, as well as total lock up if I hit the pause option on the file transfer window. There were several other issues as well, extremely slow and intermittent freezing of the start menu, windows explorer in general was just awful. I don't know what the issue was but once I got away from windows 7, and that old chipset, I never experienced it again.

If you feel like the issue is solely software-based ,you could try sfc/scannow in an elevated command prompt
 

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Last time I saw that happen, it was with a bad SATA cable. SATA has it's own error-correction so when there's a lot of errors in the cable, the symptom is really poor performance because all of the bad packets get dropped and re-requested.

Assuming you're using the same SATA cable for both drives explains why changing the drive fixed nothing.
 
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A 10 year old system ? .... in PC years that's 212, Same HD ... Im surprised it's still running.
then i think you would be surprise how many core duo rigs (w/gtx650 at best)) are selling on the local craig's list in NW ohio, usa for $175-$225. when a friend asks about one - i tell them their smartphone is better, just alot less storage.
(no offense OP - we all have to work w/what we have and i've been "there")
it was awhile before i got off PATA drives. boy what fun connecting two of those on an IDE cable and then play jumper roulette between CS,M, S and which drive on which connector.

good time now but not then . . oops i'm rambling . .
 
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@eidairaman1 I did the defrag through the command prompt. I had stopped the av during the defrag and nothing else was running during. It took some time. Said there was 1% defragmentation and it did some 3 pass tests and finished with with some stats etc. I have done some searches on AV softwares and Panda seems to be the least resource hungry. So I'm thinking of installing that or bitdefender. Avg still seems a bit heavier on the system and I think other av could do a bit better. Hopefully it would stop the freezes.

@Ahhzz and @chaosmassive I installed the free HD Sentinel and ran the Short DST and Random seek test and both passed. I also have a software called SeaTools for Windows which also works with the installed wd drive. I had ran a SMART test and Short DST on it and it showed no errors. The drive is showing in excellent health in both HD Sentinel and SeaTools. In HD Sentinel the performance is at 92% health is at 98%.

@looniam Yes I am pretty smart with clicking stuff and the norton dns helps me too. It may seem that I have 3 installed but I don't. Malwarebytes is just installed for emergencies. Its a free version and real time protection is off so it doesn't work in the background. The other is comodo firewall which is crucial! And the main one I'm using is avg. Switched to it from avast and the difference was quite noticeable(especially because I didn't let it install any unnecessary modules I think). Am thinking of trying bitdefender or panda instead of it now. I don't think MS security essentials are running in the background. They are barred from starting up.

@xorbe No, I haven't been hearing any clicking noises yet. I have no idea how to do a linear read of the drive with a speed report. Please direct me to something if its important. The drive has already passed Short DST and Random seek test on HD Sentinel.

@John Naylor Had to change the PSU, added RAM, added a GPU and had it replaced; and it was all working well (uptil now)

@jboydgolfer Do you mean switching to something later than Windows 7 will make this problem go away? It is a slow system and it is already struggling with windows 7(ultimate). I don't know what an elevated command prompt is but I did sfc/scannow anyway and it said that "Windows resource protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them" It needed to do a restart to do a complete fix. After the restart, I used the windows update and installed most of the updates. It has made the computer a little faster but the freezes haven't stopped.

@FordGT90Concept No, I am not using the same cable for any both the 2tb portables. I use the cables that came with each one. But I have pondered over it this way and found that none of the cables were faulty. When I connect the adata hdd to my phone with the cable it came with, it works perfectly unlike when it is connected to the computer while using its own cable Or WD cable. Also when I connect the WD hdd with the adata cable, it works perfectly. If you read my later comment, actually changing the drive did fix it somehow after I added a 32gb pen drive as ReadyBoost but it started malfunctioning somehow. In My Computer, it showed as just something attached to the pc but no info on free space etc. I tried to right click on it to stop ReadyBoost before removing it but the pc was just freezing again and again so I had to remove it directly from the back. Luckily when I re-attached it to the front, it was recognized and was taken for use as ReadyBoost again. Now at least I was able to stop it from being it used by ReadyBoost and formatted it to NTFS again before removing it.
 
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For me the issue got significantly better when I moved away from windows 7. I can't say that it will work for you due to the varying nature of PC builds, and the almost infinite possible causes to issues like this. However I would bet a dollar that upgrading both your operating system, as well as your hardware would be a move in the proper direction. Elevated command prompt means running the CMD.exe as administrator. I also believe third-party USB drivers were a culprit for my situation, they could be for you too. Unfortunately no one can tell you exactly what's causing the problem, the only thing people can do is offer suggestions of what you could try hopefully one of them will alleviate the problem. Another thing you can try to stop USB problems, is to disable USB selective suspend, in power management
 
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Can we please stop with the emboldening of everything please.
 
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@jboydgolfer Turned off selective suspend. Don't know why it was on when everything else was set to max performance. I'm sure spending some on a new rig would be beneficial but I have been wanting to buy a laptop and completely get rid of this desktop in time. I know it may be old but it really does the job. Only recently have these problems surfaced and I would rather somehow try to fix them.

@RCoon I thought the forum was doing it since I was OP. I'm not doing it purposely though. Even if I turn off the "B", it keeps turning itself on sometimes. I have selected everything and turned off B before I post.
 
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keeps turning itself on sometimes. I have selected everything and turned off B before I post.

You can try logging out of the website and then logging back in, or clearing cookies. For some reason on my iPhone it remembers whenever I enable bold, and it will turn itself back on , even in a different thread, even a day later.

Hopefully you get the situation with the slow transfers resolved
 

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the bolding could be related to copy paste, if you copy bolded text everything typed after it bolds, and you could also hit ctrl-b instead of ctrl-v to cause it

My guess is just a very full drive slowing down, but there have been many guesses here. Throwing a 60/120GB SSD in there with a fresh copy of windows 10 will make it feel like an all new system, but not everyone wants to throw money at older PC's to upgrade them.
 
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