I have a 6-year-old HP laptop that I've barely used—maybe only 30 to 40 hours total. I started it up today, and it's running incredibly sluggish. I'm wondering what could be causing this issue, especially since it has a traditional spinning hard drive instead of a solid state drive. Can anyone suggest ways to speed it up to make it more usable? Here are the specs: - Microsoft Windows 10 Home (Build 18362) - HP Laptop 15g-dr0xxx - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz - 4 Cores - Insyde F.36, 03-02-2021
3 Answers
It sounds like your laptop is just getting older, and the hardware isn’t that fast to begin with, especially with Windows 10 running on it. Have you considered trying to slim down the OS or switching to a lighter alternative like Linux? That might help speed things up a bit.
You might need to wait for it to download and apply years' worth of updates. Once that's done, consider getting an SSD because traditional spinning drives tend to slow things down significantly.
As this is an HP laptop, it might be running some background maintenance tasks after not being used for so long. Just letting it sit for a while could help. If you're planning to use it regularly, though, I’d recommend upgrading to an SSD. It will make a huge difference in performance, especially compared to those traditional hard drives.
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