Wi-Fi doesn't have a valid IP configuration error

I hope you've taken the backup, but why you configured 5% space ? .
So you installed both the updates on or before 21/7/21 and updated to the latest OS version. As it was working fine for the past 3-4 days most likely it 's this Bear Vpn.
you tried scanning the setup and installed files using any antivirus or something ?. Try some other vpn too.
Right now as you don't 've any auto created restore point, it's difficult to suggest something. still you can try a anti spyware scan.
 
Nitendra Singh said:
I hope you've taken the backup, but why you configured 5% space ? .
So you installed both the updates on or before 21/7/21 and updated to the latest OS version. As it was working fine for the past 3-4 days most likely it 's this Bear Vpn.
you tried scanning the setup and installed files using any antivirus or something ?. Try some other vpn too.
Right now as you don't 've any auto created restore point, it's difficult to suggest something. still you can try a anti spyware scan.
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What's wrong with 5% space? Why didn't it auto create a backup point?
Those Windows updates were auto installed.
Windows Defender and Malwarebytes shows everything as ok.
Keepsolid and seed4me vpn worked fine. Installed Tunnel Bear and everything was great but the very next day after restarting the system boom back to square one.
@Nitendra Singh @nRiTeCh @Silent47Assassin @burntwingzZz @Titokhan

Update-
It seems that the culprit is seed.me vpn, tunnelbear is also uninstalled but the problem was resolved after uninstalling seed.me without resetting the laptop again. Few questions-

1. Need a vpn, free or a trial version, with Indian servers.

2. The system has become so damm slow after uninstalling seed.me vpn and after restarting the same
The disk usage is 100% even though nothing is being copy pasted
https://imgur.com/a/TRgQcN8

CrystalDiskInfo
https://imgur.com/a/bN0m5fz
https://imgur.com/a/P6DiqWj

Processes
https://imgur.com/a/dXX10EZ
Ignore FF, just started it when the lag/slowness became a little lesser after like 20-25 minutes. I resetted the laptop on 20th. All the updates were installed within a day or two and the system never slowed down. This thing started yesterday

3. Build version

Edition Windows 10 Home Single Language
Version 21H1
Installed on ‎20-‎07-‎2021
OS build 19043.1110
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0

One more thing, I named the system what I wanted to while setting it up after the reset. How to make the same appear here?
https://imgur.com/a/1HjEpok

4. How to make sure that Windows system restore takes auto backups? Is it possible to set auto backups after a certain timeframe like say after every 15 days?
 
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becool773 said:
What's wrong with 5% space
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Smaller allocation limits the number of restore points. Default is 10% I believe (per partition).

becool773 said:
Windows system restore takes auto backups?
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Task scheduler. There are detailed guides available on Google.

Regarding disk usage, if you just booted up, high utilisation is normal due to softwares loading at startup. Honestly, I feel that a HDD is too slow for windows 10 nowadays. Guess you just have to live with it as the device is owned by your organization.
 
Silent47Assassin said:
Smaller allocation limits the number of restore points. Default is 10% I believe (per partition).


Task scheduler. There are detailed guides available on Google.

Regarding disk usage, if you just booted up, high utilisation is normal due to softwares loading at startup. Honestly, I feel that a HDD is too slow for windows 10 nowadays. Guess you just have to live with it as the device is owned by your organization.
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Default was 3% I raised it to 5% to give it more space to save those files

https://imgur.com/a/R6FpVgw

Task scheduler is too complicated for me. How to make system restore take those backups itself?

Just use some simple office softwares in the laptop. It used to be smooth as a butter. It was the same after the reset and after all those Windows updates. But after uninstalling that seed4me vpn and reinstalling it has slowed down. Kinda lagging you can say. So, it's not the hdd something else is messing with it. Any ideas about the same?
Laptop owned by me and used solely for work purposes. One major Software owned by company, which doesn't impact the system much. Do check those CrystalDiskInfo screenshots.
Any help about the other points?
@Nitendra Singh @nRiTeCh @Silent47Assassin @burntwingzZz @Titokhan
Your kind reply is awaited brothers.
 
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becool773 said:
Any ideas about the same?
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Not sure. Your system resource availability is more than enough for smooth experience as per your task manager screenshot. Check the number of background processes running. You may also want to debloat the installation using popular scripts from GitHub (again Google is your best option here). If you want best performance and if it makes sense, you may want to replace that HDD with a SSD (I know its a bit of an extreme solution, but the benefits are also tremendous as you may already be aware).

becool773 said:
Do check those CrystalDiskInfo screenshots
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If the overall status is good/healthy, I never bothered to dig down into the individual values. I read somewhere that SMART values are supposed to be interpreted differently for different vendors, so the numbers never made much sense to me.
becool773 said:
How to make system restore take those backups itself
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This may not be possible without task scheduler or a third party solution like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost (which won't technically create a "restore point", but can roll back changes to a specific version). I'm sure that there are free alternatives too, but I've never tried anything else really.

Task scheduler is not really difficult. Try the first result (includes screenshots): link
 
Silent47Assassin said:
Not sure. Your system resource availability is more than enough for smooth experience as per your task manager screenshot. Check the number of background processes running. You may also want to debloat the installation using popular scripts from GitHub (again Google is your best option here). If you want best performance and if it makes sense, you may want to replace that HDD with a SSD (I know its a bit of an extreme solution, but the benefits are also tremendous as you may already be aware).


If the overall status is good/healthy, I never bothered to dig down into the individual values. I read somewhere that SMART values are supposed to be interpreted differently for different vendors, so the numbers never made much sense to me.

This may not be possible without task scheduler or a third party solution like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost (which won't technically create a "restore point", but can roll back changes to a specific version). I'm sure that there are free alternatives too, but I've never tried anything else really.

Task scheduler is not really difficult. Try the first result (includes screenshots): link
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Not sure. Your system resource availability is more than enough for smooth experience as per your task manager screenshot. Check the number of background processes running. You may also want to debloat the installation using popular scripts from GitHub (again Google is your best option here). If you want best performance and if it makes sense, you may want to replace that HDD with a SSD (I know its a bit of an extreme solution, but the benefits are also tremendous as you may already be aware).

Photo of the task manager, screenshot taken just now.

https://imgur.com/a/g6cVVxT

It took me about 2 minutes to save this. Thanks to the "slowness" of the system. IIRC this problem was there 6-7 years back too when I bought the laptop and was setting up the same.
The disk usage is 100% . I have only installed few work related softwares, nothing else. These were installed earlier before the reset also. One of the reasons why I didn't want to format or reset was because I had a feeling that some new problem might occur. From where to check the processes which are running in the background? Check these

www.cleverfiles.com

10 Ways to Resolve a 100% Disk Usage on Windows 10 (2022)

This article explains 10 different methods to try to resolve a 100% disk usage situation with a Windows 10 computer.
www.cleverfiles.com www.cleverfiles.com

www.groovypost.com

How to Fix 100 Percent Disk Usage in Windows 10

If your Windows 10 PC is running slow and the hard drive is working at or near 100 percent, here are steps for fixing it.
www.groovypost.com www.groovypost.com

Advisable to follow these steps?

Photo of the power plan of my laptop as per link 1

https://imgur.com/a/0ceDuMl

Seems good?

About SSD, it is not really needed because the system was fast enough for me without the same earlier.

This may not be possible without task scheduler or a third party solution like Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost (which won't technically create a "restore point", but can roll back changes to a specific version). I'm sure that there are free alternatives too, but I've never tried anything else really.

Task scheduler is not really difficult. Try the first result (includes screenshots): link

Brother the system restore in my laptop was auto taking backups before the reset. I never took one. I never knew about this task scheduler so this was also not set up.

Edit-
Followed this link https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html
Stopped Windows search via cmd. The situation improved like 30-40%. Tried to disable superfetch via cmd too but kept on getting this error

https://imgur.com/a/vVK1EqM

Disabled both via services.msc, superfetch like this https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-superfetch/
Latest Task Manager, it is still 100% but the situtaion has improved to some extent. I mean the lag has decreased.

https://imgur.com/a/I6cisZe

From this link again https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html points 1-5 check.
Point 6, photo of power plan shared above no high performance setting/plan in this laptop.
Point 7- Disabled Windows Defender, no impact.
Point 8- Already Automatically manage paging file size is selected. Will there be any impact if I select No paging file?
Point 9- ran chkdsk no errors no nothing.
Point 10- Don't use chrome or skype

Any heads up?
 
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As per the task manager screenshot I can see it's 100% disk usage, can you scroll down to see if anything else heavily using the disk ?
Also do a health scan for the HDD ? use some free HDD diagnostic software.

you could've created a restore point yourself when it was all working good, unfortunately you missed it.
 
becool773 said:
Brother the system restore in my laptop was auto taking backups before the reset.
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That was probably not schedule triggered, only event triggered.

Regarding high disk usage, as I had mentioned before, this is somewhat common at startup for upto 15-20 minutes if you have too many programs loading at boot in Windows 10 on a mechanical drive. However, since you mentioned that this has to do something with the VPN software that you installed, you may want to look under services.msc and try disabling all VPN related services and reboot the system to see if things change.

Another reason why you may see degraded performance compared to your previous installation can be additional bloatware that came in with the new update. Try using a debloat script and see if things improve.
 
Nitendra Singh said:
As per the task manager screenshot I can see it's 100% disk usage, can you scroll down to see if anything else heavily using the disk ?
Also do a health scan for the HDD ? use some free HDD diagnostic software.

you could've created a restore point yourself when it was all working good, unfortunately you missed it.
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Brother no other service is using the disk besides the one's shown at the top, I have filtered them. Check this post for screenshots from the CrystalDiskInfo software and from Task Manager

Wi-Fi doesn't have a valid IP configuration error

I hope you've taken the backup, but why you configured 5% space ? . So you installed both the updates on or before 21/7/21 and updated to the latest OS version. As it was working fine for the past 3-4 days most likely it 's this Bear Vpn. you tried scanning the setup and installed files using...
techenclave.com techenclave.com

Followed this link https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html have disabled windows search and superfetch from services.msc. The slowness/lag is gone now but the disk usage is still 100% Anything to be worried about? Is there any adverse impact on the hdd with this high disk usage? Haven't restarted yet so can't comment on the longevity.
It seems that I am not alone

https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-superfetch/

https://www.groovypost.com/howto/fix-100-percent-disk-usage-in-windows-10/

https://www.technology.org/2019/07/07/how-to-fix-100-disk-usage-in-windows-10/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...0/17e3aa7e-4a2a-4927-97bd-bdb2f7dbe04b?page=2

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/100-disk-usage-windows-10-fixed/

https://www.makeuseof.com/tips-fix-100-disk-usage-improve-windows-performance/

https://community.windows.com/en-us...sk-usage/c099a6ed-b07d-446d-a3de-c395604f1bf3

https://www.dell.com/community/Wind...100-disk-usage-Windows-10/td-p/5084732/page/2

https://www.avg.com/en/signal/fix-100-disk-usage-windows

Why is the system restore not creating restore points automatically?

@Silent47Assassin bro check the above mentioned links it is a worldwide issue. No relation with vpn's. Just have one vpn installed which is a pretty good vpn, keepsolid.

What do you mean by restore point being not schedule triggered, only event triggered?

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Screenshots taken just now. Have a look at the time. The disk usage will keep on fluctuating, it will go close to 10% for a few seconds and will eventually come back to 100% even if the system is idle

https://imgur.com/a/nd6xHYu

https://imgur.com/a/N4N1BUQ
 
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becool773 said:
What do you mean by restore point being not schedule triggered, only event triggered?
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I meant restore points are auto created based on events like driver installation, windows update, etc. It is not time based (like say @ midnight everyday) which is something you are looking for if I understood you correctly.
becool773 said:
it is a worldwide issue
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That's why I said installing Windows 10 on a mechanical HDD today is a bad idea.
becool773 said:
Is there any adverse impact on the hdd with this high disk usage
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You can expect a standard life expectancy from the drive. High usage should not stress it enough to fail prematurely. But you'll have to live with the slower performance. Also, do check if your system partition is fragmented too much or not. Windows mostly performs random I/O, so response time can be an issue in a fragmented drive, resulting in higher disk usage.
 
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