Immense laptop slowdown on startup

Question

lenovo t440p, win7 pro (it was home premium, i have no idea why it is pro after resetting to default settings), i5-4600, 8gb ram

common question but i'm stuck a bit. firstly laptop was as fast as speedy gonzales, but for now it became extremely slow.

no, auto launch is okay (little amount of programs)
no, disk defrag is on my schedule
no, there is no viruses (afaik) yes, i'm using ccleaner

almost the only thing that changed - hdd is used only by 60% and now i've got 4 users, but they are working separately.

what should i do and what i'm doing wrong?

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When the the Laptop begin getting very slow, do you notice anything happening with HDD LED or Hard drive activity light? — antzshrek, Sep 05 '17 at 11:26
analyze boot with WPRUI.exe/WPA.exe, for Win7, use the older 1511 SDK — magicandre1981, Sep 05 '17 at 14:23

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '17 at 09:19

Open windows task manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc) and keep a watch on the system resources (CPU, RAM and DISK usage). If one of them is clocking to 100%, then check that culprit.

Usually, it's the HDD that causes this slowness in the startup. If none of them is over 90% then the best bet will be to check the health of your HDD.

Immense laptop slowdown on startup

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