WIndows decided it was going to update today so I had to go through the tedious process of restarting my PC. 30 minutes later it's back in the land of the almost living and I can use it again.
Basic summary of this laptop is:
This summary suggests the disk is SSD, but it isnt!
It's had a varied life since new. I started off with Vista, then moved on to Win7 and finally made the jump to Win10 in January this year. Obviously during this time it's had all sorts of applications installed, updated, and removed. Most of this has been software development (eg MS Visual Studio, Borland RAD studio, WAMP, various CAD packages, Adobe, web development apps to give some idea) in addition to the more common MS Office (2010 currently installed), Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird.
Malwarebytes reports no malware. Avast doesn't find anything bad either. Full system clean by Disk Cleanup. Disk is regularly defragmented (bought new in Jan so should be OK). The disk is partitioned so C: (windows) is about 40% full, D: (Data) is about 60% full.
Today I timed the start-up which weren't quite as bad as I thought, but nowhere near what I would hope for.
Startup to safe mode: 3 minutes 30 seconds to start Task Manager
Startup to normal mode: 10 minutes 56 seconds to start Task Manager
First off: This will be a windows machine. I don't want to change to Linux or anything else.
Now to the actual questions:
1. Should I just bite the bullet and buy a new laptop
2. Should I replace the disk with an SSD? (RAM is at the maximum so cannot change this)
3. Would a complete re-install to the existing disk (or a new SSD) be a better option? I think I have the original install media for all the apps that I use now.
4. Am I likely to run into issues with not having the Win10 install disk? I do have the original WIn7 disk but this is pre service pack 1 (if this matters)
Any suggestions on a good SSD? There's a huge difference in price for a 2TB disk. Anything from about £180 up to £600 or more (and that's just after a very quick look)
Basic summary of this laptop is:
This summary suggests the disk is SSD, but it isnt!
It's had a varied life since new. I started off with Vista, then moved on to Win7 and finally made the jump to Win10 in January this year. Obviously during this time it's had all sorts of applications installed, updated, and removed. Most of this has been software development (eg MS Visual Studio, Borland RAD studio, WAMP, various CAD packages, Adobe, web development apps to give some idea) in addition to the more common MS Office (2010 currently installed), Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird.
Malwarebytes reports no malware. Avast doesn't find anything bad either. Full system clean by Disk Cleanup. Disk is regularly defragmented (bought new in Jan so should be OK). The disk is partitioned so C: (windows) is about 40% full, D: (Data) is about 60% full.
Today I timed the start-up which weren't quite as bad as I thought, but nowhere near what I would hope for.
Startup to safe mode: 3 minutes 30 seconds to start Task Manager
Startup to normal mode: 10 minutes 56 seconds to start Task Manager
First off: This will be a windows machine. I don't want to change to Linux or anything else.
Now to the actual questions:
1. Should I just bite the bullet and buy a new laptop
2. Should I replace the disk with an SSD? (RAM is at the maximum so cannot change this)
3. Would a complete re-install to the existing disk (or a new SSD) be a better option? I think I have the original install media for all the apps that I use now.
4. Am I likely to run into issues with not having the Win10 install disk? I do have the original WIn7 disk but this is pre service pack 1 (if this matters)
Any suggestions on a good SSD? There's a huge difference in price for a 2TB disk. Anything from about £180 up to £600 or more (and that's just after a very quick look)