Windows 10 constant disk usage

[backstreetboy]

4GB Ram does not cut it with W10.

I was having the same issue with my laptop and last week threw in the towel, bumped the 4Gb up to 12Gb and replaced the HDD with a SSD , like owning a new PC.....


I concur, my W10 ran fine with 4gb Ram, so did the one upstairs, but as I added more software and the more regular the updates from W10 , the slower the machine, it became frustrating with excel, windows, spotify and thunderbird open and then sitting watching the blue circle rotate.

I have been using my upgrade machine now for the past couple of days and cannot believe that I endured more than a year of frustration, should have done the upgrade months ago....

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

CPU? as even with a RAM and SSD upgrade, if you driving a celeron,
CPU starts bottle-necking things.

 

[Bobbin]

Thanks guys, it makes sense now. Will tell her to order some RAM for now and see how it goes.

Personally I would have gone SSD before RAM. Both ideally, but SSD would have given the better boost. Even if RAM runs out, SSD will help with pagefile.

HDD and Windows 10 slow performance is a very common issue. Even many systems with 8GB RAM suffer. But it may work in your case if you're lucky to just narrowly get over the bottleneck.