Win 10 Sluggish on Laptop

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elf_lord_ZC5

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Hi,

Upgraded my Lenonvo G50-80 laptop from Win8.1 to Win 10 yhe weekend, and it was slow and sluggish. Reset back to Win 8.1 and it was back to being fast as it normally is.

Ideas, please, or should I just forget Win10 on my laptop.
 
Had the same issue but left the laptop on and unattended for an afternoon and it sorted itself out. I’m guessing it continues with setup in the background?
 
check temporary storage, Win 10 old folder, entire copy of Windows 8 (in this case) on HDD still,
can delete it by clearing out temporary files, after you've installed.

or you can do what @Rickster suggests and do clean install (with nessasary reloading everything afterwards)
 
Elon said:
Had the same issue but left the laptop on and unattended for an afternoon and it sorted itself out. I’m guessing it continues with setup in the background?
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It was on all afternoon and night, did a **** load of updates, ... , then it was still bad, so reverted. :(
 
eg2505 said:
check temporary storage, Win 10 old folder, entire copy of Windows 8 (in this case) on HDD still,
can delete it by clearing out temporary files, after you've installed.

or you can do what @Rickster suggests and do clean install (with nessasary reloading everything afterwards)
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Reloading stuff will be faster than removing the bloatware crap that Lenova bundles with the laptop.

Will see what I can do the weekend.

Thanks
 
eg2505 said:
check temporary storage, Win 10 old folder, entire copy of Windows 8 (in this case) on HDD still,
can delete it by clearing out temporary files, after you've installed.

or you can do what @Rickster suggests and do clean install (with nessasary reloading everything afterwards)
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Nope, credit goes to @Norrad
 
cyberghost47 said:
Does it have a SSD? I have found that on Windows 10, devices without solid state drives have disk usage of 100% almost constantly. This causes the device to get very slow.
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No SSD, and currently no funds to get one, but it is something I have in mind, including increasing the amount of memory from 6Gig. to hopefully 16 Gig.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
No SSD, and currently no funds to get one, but it is something I have in mind, including increasing the amount of memory from 6Gig. to hopefully 16 Gig.
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Windows 10 REALLY wants an SSD. Depending on what other stuff you want installed, 128GB can be enough for an SSD. I have an old laptop with a 128GB SSD with Win 10, Office, Photoshop, Lightroom and some older games installed, and still have quite a bit of free space, I think about 40GB.
 
I had a Lenovo laptop that ran Windows 8.1 well, but couldn't run Windows 10 with the same specs. I had to double the memory in the thing and this cued up my dislike of the brand.
I have Windows 10 running on a Microserver with 2GB RAM and an entry-level AMD CPU and it's works well, so it's not the OS all the time.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
Windows 10 REALLY wants an SSD. Depending on what other stuff you want installed, 128GB can be enough for an SSD. I have an old laptop with a 128GB SSD with Win 10, Office, Photoshop, Lightroom and some older games installed, and still have quite a bit of free space, I think about 40GB.
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That might be big enough, though, I 'd prefer at least a 256GB SSD, and as much RAM as I can put in thd laptop. Also want to remove the CD drive, and put the existing HDD, in that space, have an external USB DVD-ROM.

Use it for e-mail, audio recording and play back, and occasionally play GW2 on it only 52GB on its own.
 
rustypup said:
...and at least 8GB RAM

Also possible there's an AV conflict with Defender... but that would be weird...
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If I could get rid of Defender, I would, removed the McAfee, that came with the laptop, and no other AV installed. I would like to run it barefoot, light and fast.
 
ZA_Chamber said:
I had a Lenovo laptop that ran Windows 8.1 well, but couldn't run Windows 10 with the same specs. I had to double the memory in the thing and this cued up my dislike of the brand.
I have Windows 10 running on a Microserver with 2GB RAM and an entry-level AMD CPU and it's works well, so it's not the OS all the time.
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Could be the Intel patches, for their hardware F'ups, the laptop was bought by my Wife, bless her soul, but bless me doubly, as I use it. :)
 
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