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hey,

 

so with the free update to windows 10 i wanted to try and speed up my old laptop with this update. Since it had allot of trash on in i wanted to do a clean instal. So i installed windows 10 home, 64bit from a USB on to my laptop. everything works fine until the instal is complite.

 

windows 10 is slow, and come's behind every click i make. And the worst part: afther 3-5 min on the home screen the laptop just re-boots itself. over, and over, and over again.

 

now, i can just go back to windows 7 and leave this all behind, but i would like to know how tis come and how i can fix this? anny help on this?

 

laptop specs:

 

I3-M350 @2.27GHz
4GB ram

Intel HD Graphics

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I have a laptop with the same specs and windows 10 runs fine... albeit slow because of the 5400 rpm hdd. I recommend a clean install. 

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there might be a problem regarding the drivers

you probably don't have win10 drivers avaible so try to use the 8.1 drivers

 

also, before doing this try to boot into safe mode and use it normally to see if it still restarts. if it doesn't then the drivers are the problem

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Lol I have a older laptop running win 10 fine

 

Lol I have a older laptop running win 10 fine

thads why i would like to know whats rong, and how to fix it.

 

I have a laptop with the same specs and windows 10 runs fine... albeit slow because of the 5400 rpm hdd. I recommend a clean install. 

it was a clean instal...

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thads why i would like to know whats rong, and how to fix it.

 

it was a clean instal...

Sorry, missed that. I would check the health of your HDD with something like crystaldiskinfo and run a memtest. 

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I have a laptop with the same specs and windows 10 runs fine... albeit slow because of the 5400 rpm hdd. I recommend a clean install. 

 

Lol I have a older laptop running win 10 fine

this isnt really much help to him

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Check your drivers. Remember also that most manufactures rushed their drivers out to get something working. It has no optimazation, and some (like Intel) even have their power saving system not working, reducing battery life. You should for proper drivers.

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Windows 10 should run fine on a C2D machine, I have a Pentium 4 machine with 2GB of ram and it seems to run fine on there and i only have a P-ATA HDD so I'd take a look at your HDD and maybe have a look at upgrading to an SSD or getting a WD Scorpio Blue HDD and then see how your system goes

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can't check if i got all drivers (since i only have 5min until restart), but i think i do. i also tryed to re-instal but it dit not help 

are you sure you did a actual clean install?

downloaded the iso..

burned it to a usb stick

boot off the usb stick

delete the partitions

remake them

continue with install

once on the desktop...update to the newest drivers

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my laptop is:

HP G62

 

so, i went back to windows 8.1 (like i used to have, and worked fine), i got my ISO on USB and before installing i dit this:

 

at the instal page of windows i went to command promp and dit those commands:

 

- diskpart
- list disk
- select disk 0
- clean
- convert gpt
- exit

 

 

than i just installed windows, since its on old computer and i kinda lazy to look for drivers i use Driver Booster Pro 2 to update the drivers. And just like windows 10, RESTART. it does the same restart loop again!

 

when i boot up in safe mode, it does not restart... but when i go back to normal mode it goes again 3-5 min on and than restart and now i can't even make it up to the login screen. i need to hard shut down my laptop and re-start it menually to get back to the desktop to see it restart itself again afther 3-5 min... 

 

i also turned AFF "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" since i read this could be the problem, but it was not.

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my laptop is:

HP G62

 

so, i went back to windows 8.1 (like i used to have, and worked fine), i got my ISO on USB and before installing i dit this:

 

at the instal page of windows i went to command promp and dit those commands:

 

- diskpart

- list disk

- select disk 0

- clean

- convert gpt

- exit

 

 

than i just installed windows, since its on old computer and i kinda lazy to look for drivers i use Driver Booster Pro 2 to update the drivers. And just like windows 10, RESTART. it does the same restart loop again!

 

when i boot up in safe mode, it does not restart... but when i go back to normal mode it goes again 3-5 min on and than restart and now i can't even make it up to the login screen. i need to hard shut down my laptop and re-start it menually to get back to the desktop to see it restart itself again afther 3-5 min... 

 

i also turned AFF "Turn on fast startup (recommended)" since i read this could be the problem, but it was not.

Have you check the S.M.A.R.T status of the HDD? Have you change windows appearance for best preformance, than appearance? Did the Intel chipset and Intel HD drivers install? With the WDM drivers they are very leggy.
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