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It could be pixies. Check for empty bottles of Lamb Liniment lying around the back of the machine; a sure sign of the wee free men.
veni bibi saltavi
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Or it might be elves... Check with Granny Weatherwax 
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Spoiler:
Can't anymore, she passed away 
Young Geoffrey is now running her steading though.
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I/O!
Your computer may be a 12-core with 16 GB ram but if something is doing heavy I/O, you are toast.
This recently happened to me at home on my Win10 laptop.
It's an i7 with 8GB and runs very well -- normally.
However, Microsoft pushed an update when I opened the lid but you couldn't tell anything was happening. I looked at the disk utilization and it was at 100%
I ran a program I wrote which watches all disk I/O (I"ll soon be writing this up) and I learned that so many things were going on all around the disk it was crushed. I couldn't do anything but wait. I have snapshots of all the crap that was chipping away at the HD, killing I/O.
Feels Like A Virus
When that happens it feels like a virus. 
Microsoft, your updates feel like a virus.
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Agreed. My box frequently runs like a three legged donkey and all because some upgrade is going on. Even the hyper fast SSDs are prone to maxing out when winupdate kicks in.
I also noticed VS can really slow things down. Something to do with devenv I believe.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Dan, I am gobsmacked: you have actually paired the term "computer software" with the (is the use adverbial, or, adjectival ?) word "normal" !
Any computer will appear to run more slowly if you use the word "normal;" I am not sure if this is related to quantum phenomena because, these days, I can only half-observe myself with the left-eye.
cheers, Bill
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Have you checked for traces of tachyons? It could be time dilation. It's working so fast that it gives the illusion of working very slowly.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Maybe it's not software at all, but rather, the system may be running hot, especially as you've been installing software one after another. For one thing, the hard drive is getting a workout.
I've had a system with a dying video card that kept getting warmer and warmer and as it went along, it became more and more sluggish.
The CPU may be reaching thermal limits and slowing itself down until the temperature drops.
I have no idea - grasping at straws and throwing ideas at you.
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Not an unreasonable guess; but the initial performance fail was found by me a few weeks after the laptops were installed, so any thermal load from that should've been long dissipated (even by the crappy Dell coolers).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Did you say "Laptop" ?
Before doing anything else, and despite any good reports from chkdsk, SMART etc., you need to swap out the hard drive, do an install and see if the problem is still there.
Laptop hard drives are notoriously poor (in all respects) and will generally slow down anyway as they age. System pauses typically arise from failing sectors that require several tries to read the data. Windows is too dumb to spot this as a potential failure and has never reported a significant SMART warning to anybody anywhere.
If the disk is an SSD (or a hybrid) you could be faced with one of the many dodgy firmware problems that plague even the most well-known makes.
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The problem is that you are using windows. No seriously, the linux/unix philosophy "everything is a file" conceives that files are data, the are read during execution. Only a small set of servers runs in a daemon. Developers for windows applications seems to not get that.
Try to install PDF viewer - oh, a new Adobe service.
Try to install word - oh, great, office background service.
Try to install a browser - oh, a background service?
I wonder in which version of Windows notepad and paint will include background service.
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Hello. It is possible to break a system by just installing stuff. That is a reason why one should not install anything more than necessary.
From my limited experience, I would blame quality control.
I do not know how VS2015 works these days but, the last time I used VS (it was version 5 or 6 in 1998 or so), the install program had the habit of replacing some system libraries with its custom versions so that it could debug any running program or whatever.
Ordinarily, there should not be any problem as long as the library versions are not to far apart and one makes VS updates along with the system updates. However, in some hardware configurations, like the one I had at the time, this also interferes with hardware drivers that use those libraries and are "locked" to a specific version.
At the time, I solved it by installing the OS, all applications, making all updates and installing the drivers only at the end.
Your security setup may also not like the changing libraries. DEP used to complain about it with a "File replacement was attempted on the protected system file <file>. This file needs to be restored to the correct Microsoft version to maintain system stability." or similar message.
Hope this helps 
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It sounds like one of the items you're installing is running a service that is either I/O bound or eating some CPU. If you're installing SQL Server, keep in mind the default configuration of the server is to use all available memory. Tweak the SQL Server to only use a half-gig or something. Are you also installing multiple web servers or something (like IIS AND Apache). I've noticed performance issues like this occasionally when installing Java components; I think there's a server or two there that have similar issues. You should be able to narrow it down. Throwing a little more memory at it won't hurt but it won't solve the entire problem.
You might also consider reconfiguring you system around an SSD instead of rotating storage. I had always heard that it was some faster but it's unbelievably fast. My development system (running SQL Server, Visual Studio and tons of other goodies) used to take 2 or 3 minutes to settle down after a cold boot. With SSD storage this guy is ready in 25 or 30 seconds, and I mean SETTLED DOWN. After I rebuilt all my systems on SSD I almost can't tolerate waiting for a hard drive system to come up any more, I couldn't believe how much performance I was missing with a hard drive.
These machines are incredibly complex nowadays. I've been through [too many] rebuilds in my time. This time I've got my machine exactly where I want it and have made an image backup of it just in case the machine explodes or something. I'm done fiddling with system configuration. It's hard to get any work done when you're constantly tweaking the equipment.
HTH...
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I'm only installing management studio on the machine, the DB's running on its own server. As for SSDs vs spinning rust; everyone here except the bean counters is in total agreement with your assessment. 
As long as they're even 1 penny more expensive I don't expect to see them here until Dell stops offering them in its Latitude line entirely. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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A hard disk that hasn't died just yet, but is about to do that.
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My 2 cents- Download Process Explorer [procexp.exe] from Microsoft|SysInternals. Look at what's running on your system. As ClockMeister mentioned SQL Server might be running a local database instance, so you might want to trim that. And as others have pointed out, a lot of software now install 'services' (like *nix daemons) that auto-start on boot up. Look under your Computer/Properties (there is a command which I forget) to list all these 'services' which you might be able to stop from running at boot up.
I don't know about what 'services' VS2015 or Eclipse might be running.
Also, SysInternals has an AutoRuns program as well.
Overall, of course, Google (or other search engine) is your friend. Good luck, let us know what works!
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Take a look at what's running. I know SQL Server and VS both install services that run at startup. Office might also (it used to, but I don't know if it still does). Eclipse definitely does this (Java updater). It sounds to me like you're installing these development environments without fully understanding what they actually install.
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Aeon: "The Rise of the CreepyNet" by Rhian Sasseen [^]
"With the rise of the internet has come a popular surge in people looking to be freaked out. The genre of stories they created, known as ‘creepypasta’ – a perversion of ‘copy paste’, the keyboard commands – take as their material the frightening, the inexplicable, and the weird."
"Facebook’s official policy is to turn an account into such a memorial, where ‘people can save and share their memories of those who’ve passed’. Twitter will deactivate a deceased user’s account following a loved one’s official request, while YouTube and Gmail will allow friends and family to access the deceased’s accounts. Yahoo’s email users, though, are out of luck: in 2005, a Michigan man named John Ellsworth had to sue the company for the release of his deceased son’s emails. Apple isn’t innocent, either: a 72-year-old Canadian widow is currently battling with the company following its refusal to release her dead husband’s Apple account login details to her."
"Then there are grim forums like MyDeathSpace, its name a play on the early social networking site MySpace and its purpose the pooling of dead users’ social media accounts. The site first gained attention in 2006, shortly after its invention, and was heavily criticised; today, it still exists, and its forum members have a special predilection for compiling the profiles of the murdered, the suicidal, and overdose victims."
2nd Witch: "By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Macbeth Act 4, scene 1, 44–49"
I'm so bored by being haunted by my personalities I've embraced monadism; it's all nice and comfy syllogism between the sheets which never wind.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Users give these companies the power. Without the user, these companies are nothing.
So I would look at the user first, and Facebook second.
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It's got nowt to do with the rise of the Internet; even by the writer's own account. The freak shows, the spiritualism, the fascination with ghosts, and all the other creepy stuff have been with us pretty much as long as we've existed. It's not that long, in terms of human history, since people regularly carried around body parts of their deceased loved ones in memoriam. There was a roaring Victorian trade in making costume jewellery from dead people's hair! And what's all that Mediaeval relics business with saints' toes and fingers and beards and hearts about if not a kind of 'creepypasta'. The Internet doesn't do anything other than provide wider access to pre-existing phenomena. There really is nothing new under the sun
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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You really do have a comprehensive and expert answer/comment/opinion on every conceivable subject matter and/or topic in the known and unknown universe. Simply amazing... How do you do it?
Are you a wizard?
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I think it's rather nice to have someone join in who's well-read.
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Are Japanese limericks Loku?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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