Slow HP LAPTOP

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oscarlets

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How do I make my HP laptop fast? I tried all Google search suggestions...

HP Windows 10 Home edition i3 4GB Ram. 1TB HDD 2Ggz

Yho! the start up process is pain. I must wait plus 10 mins to get browser running. I have uninstalled all adware that came with it but still it's slow.

So I need to install another RAM? The laptop storage is still 700 GB free.

I use mainly Microsoft office 2016, edge browser, Adobe PDF but the way it freezes when all the above are open it's driving me crazy.

My previous laptop was Samsung running Windows 7 Pro and it was faster.

Do I add more RAM or Upgrade to Pro?

I tried using Chrome, Firefox, opera but still it's slow.
 
Get rid of the mechanical hard drive and have an SSD installed. 256GB should do the trick in most cases. You will have less storage, but the trade-off is much, much better speeds.
 
Or format the HDD and reinstall windows.
It shouldn't be that slow.
 
how old is that laptop? maybe it needs a full format.

Also is it just browsing thats slow? in other words does it boot up fine but then take 10min to open the browser?
 
get an SSD.. this is your only way out.. chances are your HDD is 5400rpm which is good for nothing other than storing infrequently accessed data..

at next startup, run resource monitor and checking disk usage.. disclaimer, I do not know if win 10 home has resource monitor and I am too lazy to google it.. if you see red disk usage for the full 10 minutes while you get a browser running, get the SSD..
 
Nothing wrong with a normal HDD for normal tasks, if the drive is healthy and the windows isnt dodgy then it should run just fine.
 
Rickster said:
Nothing wrong with a normal HDD for normal tasks, if the drive is healthy and the windows isnt dodgy then it should run just fine.
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It may "fine" for a little while then once you've used it for a while and have installed a bunch of apps then you wonder why the hell it's so slow because memory is getting swapped out to spinning rust.

Bite the bullet, get an SSD and leave your worries behind. A mechanical hard drive is single biggest bottleneck that can exist in a modern computer.
 
Rickster said:
Nothing wrong with a normal HDD for normal tasks, if the drive is healthy and the windows isnt dodgy then it should run just fine.
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5400rpm drives cant cope with win 10 startups.. my wife's laptop is unusable for 10 minutes while starting up.. not because windows is dodgy or the drive, simply because the 5400rpm drive is the bottle neck and getting thrashed..
 
Probably nothing wrong with the laptop. It is Windows 10 auto updating itself and crashing.
 
sajunky said:
Probably nothing wrong with the laptop. It is Windows 10 auto updating itself and crashing.
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I have an old Core 2 laptop with Windows 10 that updates itself but doesn't crash.

Like most people say, more RAM and an SSD will work wonders.
 
mr_norris said:
I have an old Core 2 laptop with Windows 10 that updates itself but doesn't crash.

Like most people say, more RAM and an SSD will work wonders.
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On some laptops it does more frequent than on others, I don't know, it is probably embedded system management (Intel ME) and power management issues.
 
Ram should be the first thing, 4GB in today's world is pushing it
 
DTBA said:
Ram should be the first thing, 4GB in today's world is pushing it
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On the computers experiencing this problem the one laptop had 8GB RAM and no, it was no lack of RAM issue, I checked it, it was plenty free RAM. There were number of system tasks taking cotinuously 60%-90% CPU time.
 
Do a safe boot and then check what programs starts automatically at startup. Disable the whole lot that you do not know.
 
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