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So i just got from my father an hp dv6500 yeah i know its kinda old but it still gets the job done i installed 2gb of ram and windows 10 32 bit i was wondering if an ssd would help with its constant slow down after some hours/minutes when i open applications any help appreciated

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Yes.. IMO SSD's are basically a required commodity in computers these days. 

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Have you tried clean installing windows first?

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indeed i have  i clearly said i installed win 10 :P

 

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You will find pretty much any ssd will be dramtically better then a hdd

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18 minutes ago, Pkelex said:

indeed i have  i clearly said i installed win 10 :P

 

yeah but you can upgrade to windows 10 with out doing a fresh install...

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35 minutes ago, Pkelex said:

So i just got from my father an hp dv6500 yeah i know its kinda old but it still gets the job done i installed 2gb of ram and windows 10 32 bit i was wondering if an ssd would help with its constant slow down after some hours/minutes when i open applications any help appreciated

Have you tried to take the laptop apart and cleaned the fan and heatsinks for dust.

it is an older laptop and HP does has some heat problems when there is dust in the system and will get slow like hell.

plus while you are cleaning it, remove the old cooling paste and apply some new.

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An SSD will definitely make some things faster, but I'm not sure upgrading to one will help the kind of performance issues you are seeing. The laptop slows down after opening applications, which makes me think that the issue might be due to running low on RAM and applications are starting to use swap space (essentially RAM overflow that's on the hard drive--and no, an SSD will not make swap appreciably faster). It's pretty easy to use 2gb of memory with one program nowadays. I would check task manager if you haven't already to see how much memory is being used. Upgrading that to 4gb (if you can) would definitely help.

 

Another thing that others have suggested would be to clean the laptop. It could be thermal throttling as well.

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1 hour ago, Pkelex said:

would help with its constant slow down after some hours/minutes when i open applications

that would not be an ssd that is from the components thermal trotting to save themselves from too much heat doing what Las_Killar suggested should fix it. A ssd will help speed it up overall but having a hdd is not the reason for the problem. also what Mr_flynn stated about the ram limitations could be it also

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