Need help to help my father

[Guilherme26]

My father bought a Dell laptop for office work, but the thing is so weak that he prefers to use his 8 years old Sony Vaio laptop. The Dell constantly slows down and stops for a few seconds every time a second program or app starts. First thing I did was uninstall McAffe that came pre-install but I have not seen much difference, someone have any suggestion to give this computer a boost?

 

Configuration: Dell Inspirion 5566 - i3 6006U 2,00GHz; 4GB of RAM; integraded graphics card, Windows 10 Home and 1TB Hard Drive.

[genexis_x]

4GB RAM+HDD in Windows 10 = DISASTER

 

Add SSD first. Then add 4GB more RAM.

[AntiTrust]

I dont mean to be an elitist but these specs (dual core 2ghz w/ no turbo boost, 4gb of ram and disk drive) are just going to be slow. You can do the upgrades above to help improve the general snappyness or try to return and get something better. 

[Guilherme26]

13 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

4GB RAM+HDD in Windows 10 = DISASTER

 

Add SSD first. Then add 4GB more RAM.

 

12 hours ago, AntiTrust said:

I dont mean to be an elitist but these specs (dual core 2ghz w/ no turbo boost, 4gb of ram and disk drive) are just going to be slow. You can do the upgrades above to help improve the general snappyness or try to return and get something better. 

That was what I thought, unfortunately my father went for the cheap option. I am going to see if he wants to put more money on it. Thank you both.

 

edit: spell check