On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 13:44:04 +0000
Stormin' Norman wrote:

I shutdown the Dell and Intel programs that run at startup. There
seems to be some improvement, it only takes Control Panel 5 seconds
to open instead of ten. I disabled them in the startup menu.

These are the programs.

Dell Quickset Module

Intel igfxTray Module

Intel hkcmd Module

Intel persistence Module


While none of these are really required, they do not account for your
slow system.

Have you looked at your event log viewer yet?

In windows 8, use the win key+w, this opens the search box, then type
in "ev" and you should see "View Event Logs". Open that, on the left
side of the new window, expand "Custom View" then select
administrative events.

Look through the list for red circles with white exclamation marks
labeled "error".

Look at the errors logged for let's say the past 24 hours and let us
know what you find.

This one error seems to be the most important.

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk1\DR4

I counted over thirty of these errors from 1/14/2015 until today.