In the Resource Monitor I'am looking at the disk response time. There are a lot of processes where the response time is thousands of milliseconds consistently, I'm pretty sure this is the source of my computer slowing down. I'm not sure what normal response times are, though?
I'm running Win 7 64 Bit Ultimate. This is running on a new computer, i5 with a terabyte drive, 4gigs of ram, the disk is still pretty much empty, so it should all be pretty snappy.
And if it is going really slow, how do I track down what's causing it?
I've turned off things like real time virus protection as experiments to see if there is something weird there, but it makes no real difference (other than it doesn't contribute to the problem by accessing the disk).
Best Answer
I personally use Microsoft / Sysinternals Process Explorer.
Click on one of the four graphs at the top to bring up the current system information, then you can click on any of the peaks under the
I/O bytes Historygraph and it will tell you what is doing the most hard drive related activities at any moment.If however you are getting no peaks and very slow responses, it could be a sign that the hard drive is dying (or in some rare situations, faulty memory)