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Got a Windows Defender scan to run but it took forever. No issues found. Downloaded Ad-Aware but then the scan won't run, says the service is unavailable. Everything still super slow, wondering how to prioritize all this b/c it takes so long. Is there a particular path to pursue first? Or...

Now seeing that the HDD is running at 100% according to the Performance monitor in Task Manager. Found some other threads that talk about stopping superfetch and windows search but those wouldn't stop even from an admin cmd prompt. also chkdsk won't run, saying that its in use by another process.

OK so I can get in to it now, but its still somewhat clunky and slow. Tried to clean up the HDD which was about 85% full. How do I look at which programs might be causing this?

My laptop was slow when Windows was up and running so restarted it. Login screen was very slow, would type in password and characters would lag. Got into Windows so tried a restart from there. Seems like it shut down OK, but now it is stuck between the Asus startup screen and the Windows...