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Hwy, so I was recently working on one of my dad's laptops trying to help speed it up. One thing that I noticed  was that the disk seemed to always be at 100% usage for the most part. This slows it way down. Nothing else seems to be bottlenecking it. I really can't tell what the heck is causing it to be so slow. The only program that really runs in the background.

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probably indexing. turn it off by diving into the properties in the file explorer. it's at the bottom.

 

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Do you know what speed the hard drive is?

 

All the 5400RPM hard drives I've had Windows 10 on will idle at 100% usage, which will slow down basically everything and be a general pain in the neck.

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500 gig drive? if you really want to speed it up, grab an ssd and copy that data over. It's about a $70 upgrade, but it makes a huge difference in the usability of the device.

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1 minute ago, Opencircuit74 said:

500 gig drive? if you really want to speed it up, grab an ssd and copy that data over. It's about a $70 upgrade, but it makes a huge difference in the usability of the device.

OP never said anything about the drive size...

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1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

OP never said anything about the drive size...

Total capacity is 488GB. I'm just going to assume it's a 500GB drive.

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1 minute ago, Opencircuit74 said:

Total capacity is 488GB. I'm just going to assume it's a 500GB drive.

dude, that's MY screenshot, not the OP's, and my C drive is a MX300.

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1 minute ago, knightslugger said:

dude, that's MY screenshot, not the OP's, and my C drive is a MX300.

Wow, you're right. Sorry about that.

 

OP, try turning off indexing the drive as stated by @knightslugger, and if that's still too slow, I would look into an SSD.

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It's windows update, I just updated 2 hp laptops to the latest windows as the install refused to work, hogged all the resources until it failed to install. I then cloned the hard drives and replaced them with SSDs because it is the best possible upgrade a laptop can get.

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Windows is basically unusable with a mechanical HDD. My mums laptop has a 3rd gen i5 U processor and was grinding to a halt constantly, especially when Windows Update was running. I chucked a 250GB SSD in there and it's good as new, no slow down issues anymore.

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