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i have a laptop that is old and when i start it up, CPU usage is always 100%. i reset the entire computer and still is slow. it used to be smoother when i bought it.

there is nothing on it except for amd software and the visual C++ software. what should i do to make it faster? Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5130

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 Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5130

Just now, IsaacDaGrazin said:

what laptop is it?

 

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Just now, Bright_Darkness said:

 Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5130

 

yeah didnt see that sorry, gimme a sec

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My life is slow, but it still works.

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1 minute ago, DevTechStudios said:

My life is slow, but it still works.

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is it supposed to be funny? if so you failed ;-;

4 minutes ago, Bright_Darkness said:

 Toshiba Satellite C655D-S5130

 

apparently its a single core that might explain a bit, how old is yours?,

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also its windows 10, when i updated i clean installed it. 

4 minutes ago, IsaacDaGrazin said:

yeah didnt see that sorry, gimme a sec

 

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1 minute ago, Bright_Darkness said:

also its windows 10, when i updated i clean installed it. 

 

how old is it? physically?

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1 minute ago, Mark77 said:

What's the specs? 

 

Have you retrofit a SSD? 

i didnt add anything on it, just the way it was when i bought it (hardware wise) software, i removed

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Apparently has a 1.5 ghz Single Core AMD. Get a new laptop. 

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1 minute ago, VinsinityKT said:

Apparently has a 1.5 ghz Single Core AMD. Get a new laptop. 

If that's the case, I *strongly* concur.  Time to put that out to pasture.   And here I thought I was pretty ghetto for using a (heavily upgraded w/SSD, new processor/wireless/WWAN) 9-year-old laptop as my "main" desktop/laptop. 

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5 minutes ago, IsaacDaGrazin said:

how old is it? physically?

um like 8 years maybe, but not shure

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Honestly I'm surprised you didn't start finding it unusabley slow 8 years ago

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Just now, Bright_Darkness said:

um like 8 years maybe, but not shure

well no wonder its slow! The hdd is probably dieing, the cpu can barley handle windows 10, it has ONE core and its clocked at 1.5GHz

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Just now, IsaacDaGrazin said:

well no wonder its slow! The hdd is probably dieing, the cpu can barley handle windows 10, it has ONE core and its clocked at 1.5GHz

well it was already slow on windows 7 

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2 minutes ago, Bright_Darkness said:

um like 8 years maybe, but not shure

lol I hadn't seen this yet when I posted this: xD 

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Honestly I'm surprised you didn't start finding it unusabley slow 8 years ago

I just looked at that 1.5 GHz single core and estimated that would be about the reasonable limit xD 

 

For comparison, a 2 GHz dual core (AMD) would have been a good CPU 10 years ago... so...

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Just now, Bright_Darkness said:

well it was already slow on windows 7 

still though, it will age and age isnt good, it will kill it slowly (same goes for us ;-;)

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5 minutes ago, Bright_Darkness said:

well it was already slow on windows 7 

I'm not surprised.  By my guess it would be usable for basic things with XP but that's about it... and that's when it was new

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6 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

I'm not surprised.  By my guess it would be usable for basic things with XP but that's about it... and that's when it was new

 

 

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