slow Laptop tune up programs?

[Tommy2]

If you purchased the laptop with Windows pre-installed then it is probably an OEM copy and the key for that will differ to a retail copy, or volume license copy, or whatever.

You may well have a restore partition on the drive so you could boot into that for a repair. If not, you may have an application on the machine to make your own discs.

Can you give me the make and model number, please?

like you said samsung have said they can't help with a disc.
It's a Samsung NP-E352-JA03UK

Thanks

 

[r04DiE]

Cheers, can you PM me a picture of the product key sticker? Its fine if you want to obscure a couple of the numbers of the license key.

 

[r04DiE]

... and you could try this.

 

[r04DiE]

Thanks, I got it, its OEM, like I thought. You should have an application to create restore discs, so try that first. If not, see if you can restore from the restore partition (try the link I posted above).

 

[Tommy2]

Got a new screen coming for it, my dad had a laptop that he smashed the screen on but he never used it so it was fairly clean, same screen as this one so swapped them over so my wife now has a faster machine for university as this one was painfully slow.
My mother has just given me her laptop which she never uses (i don't know why they buy them!!!!!) Which is again fairly uncluttered and runs Zwift, only problem is it's Windows 8.1, which I cannot get my head round at all.

So when that new screen is fitted I'll make a recovery disc and get it back to New. Then decide how to get rid of Windows 8.1 off my Zwift machine.

 

[r04DiE]

Got a new screen coming for it, my dad had a laptop that he smashed the screen on but he never used it so it was fairly clean, same screen as this one so swapped them over so my wife now has a faster machine for university as this one was painfully slow.
My mother has just given me her laptop which she never uses (i don't know why they buy them!!!!!) Which is again fairly uncluttered and runs Zwift, only problem is it's Windows 8.1, which I cannot get my head round at all.

So when that new screen is fitted I'll make a recovery disc and get it back to New. Then decide how to get rid of Windows 8.1 off my Zwift machine.

8.1 is fine once you understand how to get all your shortcuts back on the desktop.

 

[ColinJ]

If you still want to replace Win 8.1, you can get copies of Win 7 from Software Geeks for £14.99 (HERE), if that helps? (I bought 2 copies from them last year.)

 

[r04DiE]

If you still want to replace Win 8.1, you can get copies of Win 7 from Software Geeks for £14.99 (HERE), if that helps? (I bought 2 copies from them last year.)

Excellent value but do remember that mainstream support for 7 ended 2 years ago and extended support ends in 3.

 

[marknotgeorge]

If you use assistive technologies, you can still upgrade to Windows 10 for free.

 

[ColinJ]

Excellent value but do remember that mainstream support for 7 ended 2 years ago and extended support ends in 3.

I put Win 7 on my old laptop and desktop to upgrade from Win XP. Another 3 years of support is ok for that ancient hardware (10 years old is pretty much ancient in IT terms).

My new laptop is Win 10 so that will be what I will be using most in future. (The keyboard is so good on my old Dell laptop that I am finding it hard to wean myself off it. I am typing this post on it.)

 

[Tommy2]

What is assistive technologies? I assume as I don't know then I'm not using it?

Win 7 might be a good shout @ColinJ
Cheers.

I want to change the existing user to my name bit it's all linked to the Microsoft account, created myself as a new user but obviously all the stuff I'd set up on the original user desktop is not mirrored on mine.
This computer malarkey is quite time consuming!!

 

[the_mikey]

The best thing you can do is format it and reinstall Windows. Believe me.

+1, I did this on a notebook computer recently, deciding to install windows 10 direct from an ISO downloaded from the microsoft site using my existing product key rather than install from the recovery media. What a revelation, the computer actually works, no hold ups, no bloatware from the manufacturer, no nags to register for services I don't want or need (other than microsoft's own products but that's a separate issue) and it released 16Gb of storage from the C: drive.

 

[marknotgeorge]

What is assistive technologies? I assume as I don't know then I'm not using it?

Win 7 might be a good shout @ColinJ
Cheers.

I want to change the existing user to my name bit it's all linked to the Microsoft account, created myself as a new user but obviously all the stuff I'd set up on the original user desktop is not mirrored on mine.
This computer malarkey is quite time consuming!!

Assistive technologies are screen readers and the like, for people with visual disorders, etc. But from what I've read, they don't do too much checking, and if you boot from Windows 10 on a CD or USB key (rather than use the upgrade application), the upgrade will still work anyway.

 

[Dan B]

The best thing you can do is format it and reinstall Windows. Believe me.

Second best. Best is to stop after the first of those two steps
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[Tommy2]

If I had an old pc that was going to be thrown out, with a non oem product key could I use that to download and install Windows 7?