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since it an AIO pc, it should have the OEM key preinstalled through its BIOS or something (i've done this with laptops that came with windows 10, completely fresh new drive so there was no HP stuff on it, windows activated it self to what HP had licensed for it). Just reinstall windows 10 and you should be good. Otherwise i've seen keys on ebay and amazon for 90% off the retail price. I can't comment on the legality of it and YMMV. You could also play with linux. I've become quite fond of Linux Mint.

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Ok, so I'm fairly new to the party my name is Jay and I have a fairly simple question. I've recently come in possession of a acer z3-715-ur55 that had no hdd. 4gb of ram and a Pentium g4400t. It's an all in one with a massive touchscreen. That I really enjoy to play oldschool runescape on. My problem is this.. I threw an old hdd in it from an old laptop and it turned right on.. it worked like a normal pc.. but I wanted more, so I ordered a 500gb hp ssd for around $50(us) and boot time from off to on, was impressive! But.. then I tried to restart.. not so much.. back to my original question. Why would my computer boot right up? But have a slow restart? It's not like it's updating everytime? Please any help? I'll give more info if needed. Also just got my other stick of ram and now I have 8gb, Still lagging. 

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Ok, so I'm fairly new to the party my name is Jay and I have a fairly simple question. I've recently come in possession of a acer z3-715-ur55 that had no hdd. 4gb of ram and a Pentium g4400t. It's an all in one with a massive touchscreen. That I really enjoy to play oldschool runescape on. My problem is this.. I threw an old hdd in it from an old laptop and it turned right on.. it worked like a normal pc.. but I wanted more, so I ordered a 500gb hp ssd for around $50(us) and boot time from off to on, was impressive! But.. then I tried to restart.. not so much.. back to my original question. Why would my computer boot right up? But have a slow restart? It's not like it's updating everytime? Please any help? I'll give more info if needed. Also just got my other stick of ram and now I have 8gb, Still lagging. 

 

Windows 10 I assume (8.1 and up has this)

 

Shut Downs are HYBRID sleep mode.  So the SHUT DOWN to Desktop is just...hybrid sleep to awake mode.  20 second "boots"

 

RESTARTS are hard restarts on everything.  Restarting your PC forces everything to "restart" not "wake up from sleep mode"

 

Hope this helps!

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Is it a problem with win10? Because it seriously takes this thing like a good 20-30 mins to restart! It's a clone actually of a laptop hdd ?? any fixes? I feel like the hdd I had in it would restart faster. 

That's...indicative to me of having some major malware or virus.  After these 20-30 minute restarts monitor your SSD usage and see if (with nothing open) anything is hogging its utilization.

 

The easiest fix?  I always recommend a fresh install. 

 

Did you do a fresh install or clone the HDD To SSD (which would be full of drivers from the laptop)

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Is it a problem with win10? Because it seriously takes this thing like a good 20-30 mins to restart! It's a clone actually of a laptop hdd ?? any fixes? I feel like the hdd I had in it would restart faster. 

Ya there’s your problem, I hate it when people clone hdds to ssds, get all the important info off of the ssd and put it on a usb drive and install a fresh copy of win10 and you should be fine. I’ve been through this before

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If you are going to clone a HDD to SSD i've found aomie (spelling?) backerupper to be the best. I've used it on about 10 computers so far and have not a single issue. Just be sure to check the option to align partitions for SSD. BUT and this is probably your issue, you cloned a laptop drive so windows was installed on a completely different machine, and you threw that install on a different set of hardware. you need to do a fresh install on that machine to get it running right. All the clones I did where to the same machine, so no hardware/driver conflicts ext.

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Ok, so I cloned the hdd of the laptop to save money. total money spent here is about $70 because the aio was a handed down pc. I was thinking of doing a fresh install tbh I thought I took care of all the bloatware and random junk. but as also mentioned malware. i tried to download and run malwarebytes but couldn't run the program. what is the cheapest way to get a fresh copy of genuine win10? 

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since it an AIO pc, it should have the OEM key preinstalled through its BIOS or something (i've done this with laptops that came with windows 10, completely fresh new drive so there was no HP stuff on it, windows activated it self to what HP had licensed for it). Just reinstall windows 10 and you should be good. Otherwise i've seen keys on ebay and amazon for 90% off the retail price. I can't comment on the legality of it and YMMV. You could also play with linux. I've become quite fond of Linux Mint.

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added sugestion to try linux ;)
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I have been curious about linux. granted like I said I'm no expert just exploring. I'm going through windows defender/windows security now and it says fresh start. is that the same as recovery/reset? I think I'm going to give it a shot either way since I'm going to work and won't be here to wait for it.

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Ok, so I just ran the windows defender/security reset and it did things the recovery tool did not. I have my fast restart time now, so I'm pretty happy everything seems to be buttery smooth. I restarted 3 times already and its been like 5 mins. so I'm ok with that. but I'm not sure what it removed besides osrunescape. and like 2 other things.. not the synaptics pointing device driver that I'm almost sure I don't need. 

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Yea thats leftover from the laptops touch pad. I'm glad you got it working.

 

linux is fun. I've got it on my laptop and dual booting on my desktop. Like I said I like linux mint (generally i use the XFCE version, but it might be easier to start with their main version (cinnamon) I started with linux back in like 1997 and I still dont know nearly as much as I should. But mint has become the closest to being windows level user experience that I have found.

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