Relatively new laptop and running slow now! As usual

[A.Bernardi]

Greetings to the community, I have a relatively new laptop and like it has happened to all the laptops I have owned so far after a short period of usage, the performance in terms of speed has decreased (like opening chrome, word docs, spotify, etc, etc, etc)... I'm speaking about very basic things, take a long time to load! After installing windows 10 it particularly got worst !

What can you recommend from any angle to solve this for our devices and all the future ones?

 

[Tim Locke]

If it has a HDD rather than a SSD have you 'optimized'/defrag'd it?
Have you cleaned up all the cruft like temp files, and so on?

 

[A.Bernardi]

If it has a HDD rather than a SSD have you 'optimized'/defrag'd it?
Have you cleaned up all the cruft like temp files, and so on?

Hi Tim, my knowledge is pretty basic on this matter. How can I do that optimization?

Is there a software you can recommend to have it running that can keep my laptop in working fast?

Thanks !

 

[ram1220]

Download the free version of Malwarebytes. Run it and see if it finds anything. Malwarebytes will find any spyware or malware on your computer. This is different than a virus. Your antivirus software usually will not pick up malware. Malware can over time slow your computer down to a crawl. After running Malwarebytes go ahead and run your virus program just to make sure your computer is clean. I bet your computer will run better after it has been cleaned.

 

[Tim Locke]

Ram1220's plan is a good one, definitely do that, but is not what I meant:

Click on File explorer.
If you don't see your disks then click on This PC in the left column and you will see them.
Right click on your C drive.

Click on Properties ( the last item in the list that comes up).
Click on Disk Cleanup and let that run. It will come up with a dialog with several boxes you can click. Some
are already filled in
I would also suggest Temporary files as well then click OK. That will take a few minutes.

For now do not click on the Clean up System Files.

Then back to the display when you right click on the properties of drive C. Click on the tools tab and click on Optimize. The next display will tell you the optimization state of your drives. If the C drive says it is fragmented then you'll want to optimize it.

 

[Wolfie]

Free and Pro versions of CCleaner here which might also help:

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

 

[A.Bernardi]

Ram1220's plan is a good one, definitely do that, but is not what I meant:

Click on File explorer.
If you don't see your disks then click on This PC in the left column and you will see them.
Right click on your C drive.

Click on Properties ( the last item in the list that comes up).
Click on Disk Cleanup and let that run. It will come up with a dialog with several boxes you can click. Some
are already filled in
I would also suggest Temporary files as well then click OK. That will take a few minutes.

For now do not click on the Clean up System Files.

Then back to the display when you right click on the properties of drive C. Click on the tools tab and click on Optimize. The next display will tell you the optimization state of your drives. If the C drive says it is fragmented then you'll want to optimize it.

Thanks a lot Tim. It seems like I have disc optimizations automatically scheduled on weekly basis!

Already did the disc cleanup! Hope this will help! I´ll try the Malwarebytes cleanup as well!

If you have any other recommendations to have the computer running better in the long term will be more than appreciated