Yousuf Khan writes:

Recently started noticing that whenever I do something like create a
new file folder or sometimes even start a program, Windows 10 just
hangs. While looking at if anything is busy during this time, CPU
utilization seems normal and low, and disk activity is also normal and
low. I can't seem to find any reason for these hang ups. I can still
do other stuff while it's busy doing this. Is there somewhere in the
Windows 10 event viewer logs that I can look at to see what's going
on? This machine used to run Windows 7, and it now run Windows 10, and
it never had these issues under 7.

I've seen this behavior (on a Linux, not Windows machine) when a disk
was flaking out. Whenever I'd do anything that involved an actual disk
access everything would stop for a few seconds; some log entries about
ATA resets would appear and everything would start running again.