Clean Vanilla Install on HP Laptop

[SourStrike]

Basically, I was given for a gift for school an HP Laptop from Wal-Mart and on paper, it has pretty good specs for a college students laptop, i7-7500u, 12gb ram, 1tb HDD, a and all the i/o I could ever need. Unfortunately the laptop since the week I got it has never really worked as well as those specs should have. Examples of this would be when I'm writing papers word crashes very frequently and makes me lose some progress from time to time or the fact just doing basic windows tasks is usually incredibly slow, slower than I think a 5400 rpm hard drive should be. Basically I was wondering if doing a fresh windows install from a USB stick I have would be a good idea and in turn getting rid of the million hp bloatware they provide or if the only real way I'm gonna get any sort of performance boost is with an upgrade to an SSD.

 

HP Pavilion - 15-cc060wm

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-pavilion-15-cc000-laptop-pc/15551391/model/16901674/troubleshooting?sku=1KU13UA

 

 

 

[d0ge]

what version of windows do you have?

 

what version of word do you have

 

 

[SourStrike]

8 minutes ago, d0ge said:

what version of windows do you have?

 

what version of word do you have

 

 

Windows 10 Home 10.0.16299 Build 16299

and I believe it is the downloaded version of Office 365 that is provided by my school

[knightslugger]

well so long as you have login credentials for Office 365, a fresh install MIGHT speed it up a bit, but i think you'd be far better served by swapping out that HDD for a SSD.