Win 10 Sluggish on Laptop

elf_lord_ZC5 said:
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.
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+1 for the SSD. It's pretty much a staple with Windows 10. Likely you have one of those really average WD 5400 RPM drives in the laptop too. I've seen multiple PC's straight off the shelf perform horribly due to this, and disabling/uninstalling all the shenanigans did forkall to improve things. So I would be surprised if you ever get an acceptable experience with Win 10 despite all the fixes suggested. I would be inclined to suggest you're just wasting your time otherwise.
 
Bobbin said:
+1 for the SSD. It's pretty much a staple with Windows 10. Likely you have one of those really average WD 5400 RPM drives in the laptop too. I've seen multiple PC's straight off the shelf perform horribly due to this, and disabling/uninstalling all the shenanigans did forkall to improve things. So I would be surprised if you ever get an acceptable experience with Win 10 despite all the fixes suggested. I would be inclined to suggest you're just wasting your time otherwise.
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As long as it performs decently with Win 10, till I get the funds to put an SSD in there, and up the RAM to MAX, I will be fairly happy.
 
Another plus for replacing the HDD with an SSD.

I tell all clients who complain about slow speeds to do this now, and all the problems are gone afterwards.

Most of the laptops I deal with have this issue of 100% disk utilization in the background when running on a HDD, and the ones that don't are on SSDs.

Would not surprise me that Microsoft is doing it on purpose.
 
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TLDR; Install a small SSD.

I bought a brand new Dell G3 Gaming Laptop a few weeks ago, it was too slow for what I felt a new laptop should be. An IT friend of mine suggested a SSD and extra RAM.

Made a HUGE difference! Especially the SSD and I still have its Mech drive for storage.
 
Duke of Hazard said:
TLDR; Install a small SSD.

I bought a brand new Dell G3 Gaming Laptop a few weeks ago, it was too slow for what I felt a new laptop should be. An IT friend of mine suggested a SSD and extra RAM.

Made a HUGE difference! Especially the SSD and I still have its Mech drive for storage.
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What I plan doing, cash becoming available.
 
Use build 20H2.

I have a 1TB HDD and it boots in about 15 seconds. The actual login takes another 20 seconds.

You dont always 'need' an SSD.

I game on the Desktop too. Even Horizon Zero Dawn loads in a snap.
 
|tera| said:
Use build 20H2.

I have a 1TB HDD and it boots in about 15 seconds. The actual login takes another 20 seconds.

You dont always 'need' an SSD.

I game on the Desktop too. Even Horizon Zero Dawn loads in a snap.
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Laptop is on the slow side, more than a few years old, do an SSD Will bring a wrlcome boost of speed, which it needs. Not sure what amount of RAM, will be optimal on it, tho. Currently got 6Gig.

As for build, it runs what ever it updates to.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Laptop is on the slow side, more than a few years old, do an SSD Will bring a wrlcome boost of speed, which it needs. Not sure what amount of RAM, will be optimal on it, tho. Currently got 6Gig.

As for build, it runs what ever it updates to.
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There's major differences between builds. Not all systems receive a new build, even if it's generally available online. It's due to specific hardware requirements and or drivers.

So even when you update, make sure it's the latest. If you don't see it in Windows update an in-place upgrade could be done.

6GB RAM is fine for general usage.
Yes, a SSD would help, it is however not always required, as many people believe it to be.
 
|tera| said:
There's major differences between builds. Not all systems receive a new build, even if it's generally available online. It's due to specific hardware requirements and or drivers.

So even when you update, make sure it's the latest. If you don't see it in Windows update an in-place upgrade could be done.

6GB RAM is fine for general usage.
Yes, a SSD would help, it is however not always required, as many people believe it to be.
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Nah. That 5400 rpm laptop drive ain't workin with Win 10. Seen too many to know.

15 seconds boot? He will be luck to get 5 minutes lol. And then another 5 to open Outlook. Any maybe another 2 just to get typing a reply on the first email.

But I'd be interested and surprised to hear if he comes right with or without any tweaking.
 
|tera| said:
There's major differences between builds. Not all systems receive a new build, even if it's generally available online. It's due to specific hardware requirements and or drivers.

So even when you update, make sure it's the latest. If you don't see it in Windows update an in-place upgrade could be done.

6GB RAM is fine for general usage.
Yes, a SSD would help, it is however not always required, as many people believe it to be.
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Will check, the version, have a lyric projection program that runs out of memory, when running it and recording audio at same time, admittedly I have a song book, and a few bibles extra loaded, they are needed sometimes.

Would not mind having a method of exporting some of the song books from Video Psalm.
 
Get SSD, if it has a CD-Drive, remove it and replace it with the slow HDD you removed, keep OS on ssd and Data/crap on the other slow drive.

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Bobbin said:
Nah. That 5400 rpm laptop drive ain't workin with Win 10. Seen too many to know.

15 seconds boot? He will be luck to get 5 minutes lol. And then another 5 to open Outlook. Any maybe another 2 just to get typing a reply on the first email.

But I'd be interested and surprised to hear if he comes right with or without any tweaking.
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Not quiet 5 minutes, but not too far either. :(

Tweaking gets me just over 800 megabytes of extra free RAM, wanna try and push that closer to 900 megabytes, and probably accounts for the less than 5 minute boot time.

Don't use Outlook, use Thunderbird instead.
 
Hemps said:
Get SSD, if it has a CD-Drive, remove it and replace it with the slow HDD you removed, keep OS on ssd and Data/crap on the other slow drive.

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That is my intention, mate, must just take the CD drive out an see whether it is a 9mm or 11mm version.
 
elf_lord_ZC5 said:
Not quiet 5 minutes, but not too far either. :(

Tweaking gets me just over 800 megabytes of extra free RAM, wanna try and push that closer to 900 megabytes, and probably accounts for the less than 5 minute boot time.

Don't use Outlook, use Thunderbird instead.
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How much free RAM in total do you have available after boot and idle on desktop?
 
Bobbin said:
Nah. That 5400 rpm laptop drive ain't workin with Win 10. Seen too many to know.

15 seconds boot? He will be luck to get 5 minutes lol. And then another 5 to open Outlook. Any maybe another 2 just to get typing a reply on the first email.

But I'd be interested and surprised to hear if he comes right with or without any tweaking.
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It does though, for general usage purposes.
I setup an Acer laptop a few weeks ago. 5400 rpm drive. 4GB RAM.
It's snappy and really responsive.

I am not saying an SSD won't help. It will.
Whether you want to invest that money on an old and slow system is up to that person.

Personally I invested in high performance RAM and an SSD for my own laptop.
Back then it didn't cost an arm and a leg as it does now.
 
I have the exact same Lenovo laptop - the first thing I did when I bought it about 5 years ago was to replace the 1 x 4GB SODIMM with 2 x 8GB SODIMM's. - that improved performance quite substantially.

I also use the Hibernate option when shutting down - and usually only do a 'full shut down & reboot' every 2 weeks or so, just to clean things up every now & again.
 
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