School laptop super slow even with fresh install

[JorenBus]

Hello all,

 

The laptop I use for school is (and has always been) super slow, even though it's only 2 years old. I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 in the hope that this would fix it, but nope.

When my PC is booted up for like 5 minutes, and I open Chrome for example, it litterally takes 30 seconds to load it. Same goes with the explorer, takes around 10-20 seconds to open that.

It's a HP Probook 430 G1 with an i3 4010 1.70GHz and 4GB of RAM.

Is there anything I can do to make this laptop run a bit faster?

 

Thanks in advance

[Muz]

Maybe try Windows 7 instead of 10?

 

edit nvm cant read lmao

Edited September 22, 2015 by Muz

[JorenBus]

Maybe try Windows 7 instead of 10?

It had Windows 8 installed before, so I can't just go install Windows 7.

[Kirky2k15]

SSD

[soljakid1995]

check the cpu and RAM usage in task manager, tell us what it say's

[Sir Asvald]

Hello all,

 

The laptop I use for school is (and has always been) super slow, even though it's only 2 years old. I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 in the hope that this would fix it, but nope.

When my PC is booted up for like 5 minutes, and I open Chrome for example, it litterally takes 30 seconds to load it. Same goes with the explorer, takes around 10-20 seconds to open that.

It's a HP Probook 430 G1 with an i3 4010 1.70GHz and 4GB of RAM.

Is there anything I can do to make this laptop run a bit faster?

 

Thanks in advance

Add more ran and and SSD

[comicsansms]

Dying HDD?

Shit computer?

 

I would install 7 (or 8) and try it and see if that fixes it.

Then I would look at the HDD health using HDD Guardian and if it has any errors or bad sectors, replace the computer or get an SSD.

[Redsun20]

SLAP AN SSD IN IT ASAP!!!!!

[ELSknutson]

Put an SSd in it and another 4 gb of ram and it should work better for you

[yudhvir]

processor is the problem dude 1.7ghz this is around min requirements of windows10 and minimum means atleast  able to boot windows (in my world) but u should get recommended specs or even better than recommended specs to play along with windows 10

[German_John]

I had a laptop with quite similar spcs (Lifebook A512). CPU isn't quite fast, but it should be fine. I'd say HP used a crummy slow HDD for that thing, so an SSD should fix it. 

 

To rule out software, you could use a Linux Live USB and try if it's faster. If it is, you might be due for a switch to Linux. 

[German_John]

processor is the problem dude 1.7ghz this is around min requirements of windows10 and minimum means atleast  able to boot windows (in my world) but u should get recommended specs or even better than recommended specs to play along with windows 10

I'm using Windows 10 on my Transformer Book with some Atom at 1.33GHz, and it's quite snappy. Doesn't stack up to "real" machines, but his i3 shouldn't be holding it back more than my Atom...

[Sauron]

Buy an ssd and run linux. That alone could make the situation a lot better. 4gb of ram are also not that much, although for linux they are fine. The cpu is not great but it should run reasonably well for office work.

[JorenBus]

SSD

 

 

check the cpu and RAM usage in task manager, tell us what it say's

 

 

Add more ran and and SSD

 

 

SLAP AN SSD IN IT ASAP!!!!!

 

 

Put an SSd in it and another 4 gb of ram and it should work better for you

 

 

I had a laptop with quite similar spcs (Lifebook A512). CPU isn't quite fast, but it should be fine. I'd say HP used a crummy slow HDD for that thing, so an SSD should fix it. 

 

To rule out software, you could use a Linux Live USB and try if it's faster. If it is, you might be due for a switch to Linux. 

 

 

Buy an ssd and run linux. That alone could make the situation a lot better. 4gb of ram are also not that much, although for linux they are fine. The cpu is not great but it should run reasonably well for office work.

No reason to invest in SSD or more RAM, since I only use this laptop for school (taking notes in class), so I'm not willing to make an investment in something I don't use that much.

Peaks of 100% CPU usage with only 4 tabs opened in Chrome, only program running atm.

Around 1.9GB of RAM usage again with 4 tabs open.

[JorenBus]

Dying HDD?

Shit computer?

 

I would install 7 (or 8) and try it and see if that fixes it.

Then I would look at the HDD health using HDD Guardian and if it has any errors or bad sectors, replace the computer or get an SSD.

Overall evaluation: passed. I didn't scan anything or something, should I?

[Sauron]

No reason to invest in SSD or more RAM, since I only use this laptop for school (taking notes in class), so I'm not willing to make an investment in something I don't use that much.

Peaks of 100% CPU usage with only 4 tabs opened in Chrome, only program running atm.

Around 1.9GB of RAM usage again with 4 tabs open.

 

You're the one who asked how to make it run better... did you think you could magically make it faster without spending anything?

[JorenBus]

You're the one who asked how to make it run better... did you think you could magically make it faster without spending anything?

I have to admit I was hoping for something like that

[Sauron]

I have to admit I was hoping for something like that

 

there's no chance of that happening if a clean install doesn't do it unfortunately. Of course running linux would help.

[German_John]

I have to admit I was hoping for something like that

 

No reason to invest in SSD or more RAM, since I only use this laptop for school (taking notes in class), so I'm not willing to make an investment in something I don't use that much.

Peaks of 100% CPU usage with only 4 tabs opened in Chrome, only program running atm.

Around 1.9GB of RAM usage again with 4 tabs open.

I agree, no reason to invest in a school machine really. It also appears there's something wrong, because chrome should not be eating your CPU like that, and not even chrome should be consuming this kinda RAM. 

Fresh install of Windows perchance?

[JorenBus]

I agree, no reason to invest in a school machine really. It also appears there's something wrong, because chrome should not be eating your CPU like that, and not even chrome should be consuming this kinda RAM. 

Fresh install of Windows perchance?

As I mentioned in my post, I did a full clean install of Windows 10 a few days ago.

[TetraSky]

No reason to invest in SSD or more RAM, since I only use this laptop for school (taking notes in class), so I'm not willing to make an investment in something I don't use that much.

Peaks of 100% CPU usage with only 4 tabs opened in Chrome, only program running atm.

Around 1.9GB of RAM usage again with 4 tabs open.

If you just leave the computer to IDLE(with chrome closed), what's the CPU utilization like?

 

Is Chrome the thing that is taking all the CPU utilization or is there something else?

 

But really, if you want to make it "faster", an SSD is pretty much your only way. HDDs in low end laptops are generally very slow. (a cheap 64GB SSD would be just fine)

 

 

 

It's a HP Probook 430 G1 with an i3 4010 1.70GHz and 4GB of RAM.

Did you do an actual clean install of Windows, or did you just "restored to factory default" using the built-in HP restoration thing? If it's the latter, you probably have a couple dozen bloatware from HP that's taking all the "juice" of the laptop, either use something like PCdecrapifier or actually reinstall using a fresh copy of Windows.

[Redsun20]

Did you do an actual clean install of Windows, or did you just "restored to factory default" using the built-in HP restoration thing? If it's the latter, you probably have a couple dozen bloatware from HP that's taking all the "juice" of the laptop, either use something like PCdecrapifier or actually reinstall using a fresh copy of Windows.

Damn, was about to ask that