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    Question Samsung Series 7 NP700Z5AH Slow Performance Trouble

    Samsung Series 7 NP700Z5AH, i7-2675QM @2.2GHz, 8GB RAM. System in great condition, largely unused over last several years. Several years ago this laptop began giving me trouble by randomly freezing, so it went into storage. Tried at one point to clean it and found some possibly-related issues...
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    Dell Precision M6800 very slow and ran out of ideas.

    I got a refurbished computer around two weeks ago and it is an Dell Precision M6800. It was working fine the first few days and then after a while it started getting slower and slower. Now it takes around two minutes for the file manager to open up and it takes like five minutes for chrome to...
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    Solved! Need a light, sleek, high performance Laptop. SSD+HDD or Optane (not a fan of gaming laptops)

    Hey! I'm a Civil engineer and have a need to run at least 2 different designing software simultaneously, as in AutoCAD, Revit, StaadPRO, Primavera, Photoshop. I currently have an 8GB ram with 2Gb graphics and im suffering lags from time to time. The boot time is too long and programs take too...
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    Another New laptop scoring dismally low on novabench. at wits end. need help

    Hello, I know there's a thousand threads with essentially the same title on here, but i spent some ample time reading thru them without finding the right answers. So i'm hoping this community might be generous enough to help me here. I recently purchased a Lenovo Yoga 710-11ikb in control...
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    Startup beeps, 200 approx

    Help!!! My Lenovo G50 laptop beeps at full sound on startup and stops after approx 200 beeps or by pressing power button. I don't know why this happens.
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    Solved! Laptop at a crawl

    Bought my laptop just over a year ago new, and it's already slowed to a crawl when starting up and keeps crashing applications for around 10-15 minutes after turning on. It's an Acer aspire e-15 i5, windows 10. I don't have anything on the laptop that I don't need, it only has office for...
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    Abnormally Slow Lenovo B50

    So my parents just gave me this B50 because it was too slow and they wanted me to "fix it up". It wasn't too slow oh no... I haven't used a laptop this slow since those mini laptops from 2008's. So I thought it probably was full of viruses and malware and installed a fresh Windows 10. It really...
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    Inexplicably sluggish laptop out of nowhere?

    So recently I've been having an issue with my Lenovo laptop when trying to do basically anything with my computer. My laptop has done just as fine in the past as you would expect from an HDD. Reasonable load times, nothing noticeable. However, I went away for a week or so and came back to...
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    Sony VAIO Laptop Boots to the Windows 10 symbol but then Beeps continuously

    Product name: vpceh2n1e I've had the laptop for 6 years and only recently have had an issue trying to fully boot into windows 10. Sometimes when i turn it on it will beep for about 2 minutes before loading very slowly to the windows 10 login screen I've tried these thing and still no luck...
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    Laptop boot time query

    Hello, My laptop HP-BS145TU bought on Amazon is one month old. The specs are: Windows 10 Pro (UEFI Mode), Intel Core i5 8250U Processor, HP 832A Motherboard, 8GB DDR4 2400Mhz RAM, 120GB Kingston A400 SSD (SATA 3), 1TB Toshiba 5400rpm HDD (in optical drive bay). I've upgraded to the latest BIOS...
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    Windows 10 x64 Very Slow on new Acer Aspire 3 A315-15 laptop.

    I bought this laptop two days ago. It came with Endless OS (Linux). I installed Windows 10 Home OEM because i can't install Windows 7 or 8.1 (drivers not working). Specifications: Intel Celeron(R) N3350 1,1ghz - 2,4ghz. I clocked it to 2,4ghz. 4gb ddr 1333mhz ram. Hard Disk seagate 500gb 100mb/s...
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    Pc slows down after downloading torrents

    Hello, I was downloading torrents, next day I noticed pc slow down, pages load longer, YouTube video lags etc, all day I were scanning computer with 5 antivirus like Malwarebytes, Avast avg, bit... All deep test but nothing found, pc also started giving me blue screen
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    Lenovo Y700-15ISK Phantom Disks when connecting SSD to M.2 slot.

    *Update 02/22/2018* I found a site that i was able to download 3 version of drivers that should work with my SSD, but I am unable to install the drivers, for now, this is the site: win-raid drivers. *update* 02/20/2018 - Specification of the boot timings: Windows is installed on the the WD...
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    Very slow boot on Dell vostro 5470 machine

    Hey all. What could happen with it? It should load bios and system in 30sec. But nowadays it take to load up whole system in 2 mins. I use the same hardware and software. Nothing modified. Look the tape i recorded how it boot. Hope to hear you soon. Julianas. https://youtu.be/hw-TCETvSjs
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    Freezing PC with 100% Disk Usage Spikes **READ ALL**

    Please help and read it all!!! :( I am having an issue with my Asus Aspire 3 2017 laptop, here are the specifications: AMD A-Series Dual-Core Processor A9-9420 3 GHz (Up to 3.6GHz) , 6GB DDR4 Memory, 1TB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive, AMD Radeon R5 Graphics. This occurred right after my PC shut off...
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    Very, very slow after bios, but when Windows loads, it's rapid

    Hi there, Having a bit of an issue. Just installed am SSD in an HP Probook 4730s laptop (old HDD failed). I have flashed the BIOS to the most recent version, and disabled all the boot methods that don't apply, but for some reason, I get an odd issue. The BIOS screen loads, then goes to a battery...
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    Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 - incredibly slow startup/general performance

    My father has a Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 (~2012?) that is unusably slow. I am not sure when it began slowing down but he has not used it for several months and this weekend I picked the machine up to take a look at it. It has an i7 2 core chip + 8G RAM with 1T drive (5200rpm), running Windows 10...
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    How likely that it is the HDD that is slowing my laptop down?

    Hi guys, I have a Lenovo Z400 Ideapad (non-Touch), which is around 5 years old. I can still use it to run simulations and games that its graphics card is suppose to handle. But in terms of browsing, launching anything, or using file explorer. It comes to almost a dead halt. In other words...
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    NVME SSD drive showing 4 times in disk management

    Hi, I just added a Toshiba NVME M.2 512 gb drive, I've made a clean windows 10 install on it but my laptop sees it 4 times in disk management and in diskpart. I've got disk 0-1-2-3... 4 times the same disk. 3 of them have 0 bytes capacity. The laptop works fine but my boot up time is...
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    youtube is running slowly

    Hello guys, i have a problem with youtube page lately, everytime i click on something its just loading slowly, all other web pages run smoothly and great, i have a 100/100 internet,