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    How to restore my laptop's performance to its original state? Factory reset did not speed things up.

    I've downloaded a program (CPUID HW monitor) to see the temps of various components, and currently my CPU and HDD are sitting at 60 C (143 F) and 52 C (125 F) respectively whilst browsing Chrome with 7 or 8 tabs open. Task manager says my CPU usage is about 15% and RAM usage is 2.4GB. The fan...
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    How to restore my laptop's performance to its original state? Factory reset did not speed things up.

    (2011 Dell XPS 15 L502X, Core i5, 4GB ram, 7200rpm HD, 1GB Nvidia graphics, Win 7) I have done a complete factory restore, but it is still slow when doing simple things like loading Word, or when I click on the home button it takes a second or two to load, and when I hover the mouse over the...