craigdt
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This is my brother-in-law's laptop for school.
Intel i5-8250U
8GB RAM
1TB spinner disk
CPU very low- 0-10%
Memory steady at about 4GB
But the HDD is always at 100%, with nothing running, making it really slow.
Virtually brand new.
Scrubbed of all Dell factory bloatware performed
Nothing special in startup programs
Very clean- normally a machine like this runs just fine.
Ive disabled Windows search, doesnt help.
Disabled Windows MSE.
Performed all Windows updates, restarted multiple times.
Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware and Spybot scans
Rolled back Adobe Flash updates
Set to high performance mode
Disabled the superfetch service
Set virtual memory to1.5gb min, 12gb max
What other things can I do, besides flatten it and install a (long overdue) SSD?
Intel i5-8250U
8GB RAM
1TB spinner disk
CPU very low- 0-10%
Memory steady at about 4GB
But the HDD is always at 100%, with nothing running, making it really slow.
Virtually brand new.
Scrubbed of all Dell factory bloatware performed
Nothing special in startup programs
Very clean- normally a machine like this runs just fine.
Ive disabled Windows search, doesnt help.
Disabled Windows MSE.
Performed all Windows updates, restarted multiple times.
Malwarebytes, SuperAntiSpyware and Spybot scans
Rolled back Adobe Flash updates
Set to high performance mode
Disabled the superfetch service
Set virtual memory to1.5gb min, 12gb max
What other things can I do, besides flatten it and install a (long overdue) SSD?