Laptop Suddenly extremely slow

[Azzah44100]

Hey guys, i have noticed over the past few weeks that my laptop has become extremely sluggish. Compared to what it was its so annoying to use it now. I was messing around with linux (Dual Booting) but i have since removed the partition that contained linux.

Do you guys have any suggestions?

CPU: i5-4200U

Ram 4GB

Windows 10 64 bit

 

[Pandora]

u might have used up to much of ur ssd or hdd space. windows might not be recognizing the space properly anymore fresh install and make sure u have no more partitions on the drive. 

[Azzah44100]

 

 

Edited February 16, 2016 by Azzah44100

[Azzah44100]

4 minutes ago, thorbrantly101 said:

u might have used up to much of ur ssd or hdd space. windows might not be recognizing the space properly anymore fresh install and make sure u have no more partitions on the drive. 

Okay, any idea how i find my windows product key ? There is no sticker on the laptop anywhere. i don't want to format the drive then be stuck with no OS

[Pandora]

Just now, Azzah44100 said:

Okay, any idea how i find my windows product key ? There is no sticker on the laptop anywhere. i don't want to format the drive then be stuck with no OS

no sticker on the laptop at all? hmm. i dont know what to say then. you could try calling your laptop manufacture and tell them that your os corrupted and you need to reinstall. 

[Azzah44100]

1 minute ago, thorbrantly101 said:

no sticker on the laptop at all? hmm. i dont know what to say then. you could try calling your laptop manufacture and tell them that your os corrupted and you need to reinstall. 

Nope no sticker, there is a small one that says windows 8 but no product key. Because they have to make everything difficult of course...

[Joshndroid]

6 minutes ago, Azzah44100 said:

Nope no sticker, there is a small one that says windows 8 but no product key. Because they have to make everything difficult of course...

if your using windows 10, you can actually re-install windows and it will activate itself. If you upgraded from windows 8.1 or whatever your key will be a generic key.

 

if your laptop is one from like acer or whatever, you may be able to restore windows back to factory settings. may even have a windows backup point that u could restore from a few days ago?

 

failing that use a program like ccleaner and clean out some of your old junk files, etc. Have a look at what is in your start-up list, see if there a useless programs eating your cpu. check and see what is running away, 4gb is not a whole lot, it may be getting filled rather easily...