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2 year old laptop takes 5 mins to boot up

Fingers Mcginty · 2019-08-31 15:25:11

Howdy folks, Mother in law has entrusted me with fixing her laptop. It's only 2 years old but takes ages to boot up and is horrendously slow in general. I notice the disk is on 100% in the task manager window.

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#32 02-09-2019 10:57AM

Cordell

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As others said, replace the drive with a SSD, it will make it into a totally different machine.

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#33 02-09-2019 06:57PM

enniscorthy

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HI MATE TRY SPYBOT SEARCH AND DESTROY I HAD THE SAME PROBLEM

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#34 03-09-2019 08:48PM

Fingers Mcginty

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That worked a treat. 500GB SSD drive installed and windows loaded from Usb and the machine is unbelievably fast.
Just need to install another 4GB of ram now. Thanks lads

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