My computer's gotten pretty slow over the last 6 months

[carnageX]

I'm working on the CHKDSK log. Will have it up shortly. In the meantime, what are you suggesting (in numbers) for the System Restore allocation? And is Pagefile the same thing or is that completely different?

They're different.

System Restore = a restore point you can set to revert back to if an update or system change screws up. I recommend 3-5% usage (if that).

Page file = virtual memory that supplements your standard/physical RAM in case it fills up. If you're on a SSD, this should be on a secondary drive (or disabled if no secondary drive exists). I usually set it to "Custom Size" and set the min/max to the same thing to prevent it from growing out of control - I usually set it to 4096MB (4GB).

Is there some way to tell it to back up to external drive? Keep in mind my external is not always plugged in.

No, not for system restore. It's either on or off or each partition (or drive).

 

[bigdan]

Here's the log. Thanks a lot man




TimeCreated : 4/13/2015 5:06:22 AM
Message :

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Acer.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
Cleaning up instance tags for file 0x4a78.
475136 file records processed.

File verification completed.
3375 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

47 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
576486 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
475136 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 1216 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9
.
Cleaning up 1216 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9
.
Cleaning up 1216 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
50676 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
34878392 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
475120 files processed.

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
52729592 free clusters processed.

Free space verification is complete.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bi
tmap.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

957783039 KB total disk space.
746075400 KB in 331255 files.
182392 KB in 50677 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
606875 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
210918372 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
239445759 total allocation units on disk.
52729593 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 40 07 00 f8 d3 05 00 ea 8b 0a 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
74 2f 00 00 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 t/../...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

 

[carnageX]

Well the log definitely says that it fixed some things which is good. Most likely why you saw the boost in performance.