Hey Tech Report forum, just the guys I need to be speaking to!
I wasn't sure where to post this in the "Overclocking, Tweaking, & Cooling", "Processors" etc so if it would go better somewhere else just let me know guys and I will get it moved to a more specific section but General is a pretty good place to start.
Anyhow, I have a Dell Latitude E6420 (yes it's old) and this laptop has been a beast of a computer for the price range it was in when I bought it new from a site I have been using for quite a while http://www.used.forsale/canada as I have used for all the new parts for my laptop I have had to purchase since... As most things, it's getting old now and starting to have a few glitches here and there. Now I'm not to computer technical but I will do my best to explain the situation I'm in. When I bought the laptop it was running on windows 7...... I updated to the windows 10 and it seemed a little slower but no major problems that other people weren't having also. But, in the last two weeks, my Dell has slowed right down to a ridiculous snail's pace. I did the standard windows restore and deleted everything off of my laptop, updated and started from new, this was yesterday. My laptop is still taking a good 7 minutes to start up and then it runs at 100% disk for about 5mins after I see the initial home screen.
Is there anything I can do to take as much stress off of the startup as possible so I can spread that disk space out a little? any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated, guys.
SPECS
Make: Dell
Model: Latitude E6420
RAM: 4GB
Hard Drive: 1TB
Processor: Intel i5 2.5GHz
Graphics card: NVIDIA NVS 4200M
System type: x64 bit
If there is any other information you guys need just comment below and I will get it added on. If not I am looking forward to speaking with you all and getting some solutions to my disk usage issue!
Cheers everyone