Posted April 15, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 15, 2018 what version of windows do you have? what version of word do you have PC SPECS: Case: TT View 27 Black Motherboard: ASRock Z370 SLI XTREME ATX CPU: Intel Core i7-8700k GPU: GeForce GTX 1080 Mini ITX 8G RAM: 16GB G.Skill TridentZ RGB 3200MHz DDR4 PSU: Generic 800 Watt CPU Cooler: Stock Intel Cooler(*oof*) SSD: 250GB Samsung 850 EVO _______________ NON PC STUFF: Monitor: Alienware 25 Freesync(i know i have an nvidia card) kb: Corsair K65 Luxe with MX Red Switches(and a white backplate mod to enhance the RGB) Mouse: SteelSeries Rival 700 at 1600 dpi Audio: Razer Kraken 7.1 V2 OS: Windows 10 Home, duh RGB: Corsair Lighting Node Pro with corsair light strips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 15, 2018 Author 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 15, 2018 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. [FS][US] Corsair H115i 280mm AIO-AMD $60+shipping System specs: Asus Prime X370 Pro - Custom EKWB CPU/GPU 2x360 1x240 soft loop - Ryzen 1700X - Corsair Vengeance RGB 2x16GB - Plextor 512 NVMe + 2TB SU800 - EVGA GTX1080ti - LianLi PC11 Dynamic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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