Yeah because you know it works, you just don't know why it's slow so you try to find what it is just to realise it's a pc from the 2000's and was made to be slow...
That's what a Linux Live USB is for. Reboot from it; still slow? If so, your Windows is crufted up & needs a backup-backup again-wiped & reinstall. Do you have an SSD? If so, is it more than 60% full? That will slow it down like molasses.
That's what a Linux Live USB is for. Reboot from it; still slow? If so, your Windows is crufted up & needs a backup-backup again-wiped & reinstall. Do you have an SSD? If so, is it more than 60% full? That will slow it down like molasses.
I once had this laptop that was designed to be a chromebook, but some lunatic installed Windows on it. I have never seen Windows run so slow without just crashing. Any program you opened took like 3-4 minutes to come up. God help you if there was video.
We have a few old ones suffering from this. It’s impossible to do anything on them, can’t even shut them down because they’re too busy loading to do even that..
That's what a Linux Live USB is for. Reboot from it; still slow? If so, your Windows is crufted up & needs a backup-backup again-wiped & reinstall. Do you have an SSD? If so, is it more than 60% full? That will slow it down like molasses.
At least with a broken computer, it gives you an excuse to do other things. "I guess I can do laundry or expose myself to the sun or whatever normal people do." With a slow computer it's like waiting hours for something as simple as wanting to open a web page or send an email or whatever.
Even worse is an intermittently functioning computer - now it's fast, now it's dead, now it's slow, now it's fast but it stops at the worst time, now it's super fast and you think the problem is over .... (repeat ad infinitum)
Relatable! I had a very unreliable and annoying camera, so eventually I fixed it by hitting it repeatedly with a hammer. Sure it can no longer record images, but it's now a 100% reliable, no-surprises, ornament.
My desktop is so outdated the newest part is from 2012 (GTX 650) and any game that came out for PS5 / Series I can never run the PC Version, even on Lowest. I could maybe get away with PS4 / Xbox One games if it released in the first half of its life / was Optimized well / didn't need too much.
I am at my wit's end trying to solve the mystery of what is keeping me at 100% disk usage. But at least my laptop is running a bit faster now that Kaspersky's gone.
Oy! Ain't that the truth.
My previous was an iMac made in 2015. Rebooting was such a painful process, sometimes taking as long as 10 minutes, I used to simply let it run 24/7. The longest time w/o reboot was 45 days.
Now I have a MacBook Pro. Instead of 10 minutes, it's now 10 seconds to reboot.
I have 580 hours in Pathfinder:Kingmaker on Steam because my old computer would consistently take 20+ minutes to go through every loading screen between zones. 15 minutes from boot to load the main menu at 5fps.
My wife and I started calling the game Loading Simulator.
That's what a Linux Live USB is for. Reboot from it; still slow? If so, your Windows is crufted up & needs a backup-backup again-wiped & reinstall. Do you have an SSD? If so, is it more than 60% full? That will slow it down like molasses.
Or contradictory data 'cruft' is slowing down Windows. If you want to know which, apply the Linux Live USB, reboot from it, and see. I use several older than 9 y.o. machines and they run well with freshly reinstalled OS.
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But didn't deploy fast (for then) internet
If I told you how long the lag was using Office, especially Excel, you simply would not believe me
It was beyond brutal
you can fix a broken one
and you can as well with a slow one
reset it
They will wait until it bricks to fix/replace it.
I’d rather not have it lol
My previous was an iMac made in 2015. Rebooting was such a painful process, sometimes taking as long as 10 minutes, I used to simply let it run 24/7. The longest time w/o reboot was 45 days.
Now I have a MacBook Pro. Instead of 10 minutes, it's now 10 seconds to reboot.
My wife and I started calling the game Loading Simulator.