Hi All,
I am currnetly investigating why my Dad's PC is running so slowly and hoped the forum may be able to enlighten me.
Firstly I deleted all the bloat ware and rubbish on hist system before running CCleaner and doing a DiskDefrag. The system still ran poorly so I looked in the Norton performance alert logs, interestingly almost all of the alerts are for:
"High CPU usage by: WD File Management Engine"
and
"High disk write usage by: WD File Management Engine"
My Dad has an external WD hard drive so has the WDSmafrtWare software installed, however this does not run at startup. It seems instead that this is a WD service which is running in the background.
Am i missing something or is it crazy that software for an external HD is even running in the background when not needed?
So to the point, is this a known issue and is it definitely the software for the external HDD?
If so what is considered the best backing up software/utility to use? Is the windows 7 backup feature any good?
Thanks
I am currnetly investigating why my Dad's PC is running so slowly and hoped the forum may be able to enlighten me.
Firstly I deleted all the bloat ware and rubbish on hist system before running CCleaner and doing a DiskDefrag. The system still ran poorly so I looked in the Norton performance alert logs, interestingly almost all of the alerts are for:
"High CPU usage by: WD File Management Engine"
and
"High disk write usage by: WD File Management Engine"
My Dad has an external WD hard drive so has the WDSmafrtWare software installed, however this does not run at startup. It seems instead that this is a WD service which is running in the background.
Am i missing something or is it crazy that software for an external HD is even running in the background when not needed?
So to the point, is this a known issue and is it definitely the software for the external HDD?
If so what is considered the best backing up software/utility to use? Is the windows 7 backup feature any good?
Thanks