Borisyo

Yeah but processes are not the ones that slow down hard drive, files are. I need to locate files that are excessively accessed when i do take actions. Where can i find program which could tell me which file/s being accessed and how much data is being read/written to?

No in my case hard drive is accessed when i take action, not when idle. And i don't have viruses and such stuff.

I was using laptop for gaming initially and everything was fine. After some years i noticed slow down - everything was merely always loading. Game that once was loading fast started loading longer. I dropped gaming, reinstalled Windows and started multitasking, doing work on laptop like Word, Excel, surfing internet, listening to Winamp, using Dropbox sometimes, i use Atomic Alarm Clock, antivirus MSE and Evernote. Still my system was loading longer than expected. I am talking about applications, web browser tabs, new browser windows, clicking on link on website, opening windows explorer i.e My Computer. MSE antivirus update takes constant loading of hard drive which lasts for 3 minutes! (But what is surprising is startup of Windows' applications is pretty fast...) I don't think it is swap file, i have over 500MB of RAM free and slow down happens very frequently. Look at this screenshot: Take a look at processes running: Here is my laptop specifications: Intel Centrino Duo T2400 1.83Ghz 1GB of RAM (512MB Samsung + 512MB PQI) 80GB Hard Drive Hitachi Sata 150 GeForce Go7400 Mobile Intel 945PM Express Chipset Should i benchmark my hard drive?

I have seen usb MIMO wi-fi adapter but nothing was mentioned about coverage. I saw another adapter without MIMO but with high coverage (x4 range, don't know how far this is). There is Edimax, Cisco / Linksys, Hawkin... I need high coverage and high quality adapter. What usb adapter would you recommend?