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.
I would think those specs would be decent to use for web browsing and simple document handling, but the start up time is terrible and then once it starts up - pretty much any program shows "(not responding)" and then finally completes when given a task.
I have all the latest Windows updates installed, I have run scf and dism utilities, I have defragged the partitions, nothing odd appears to be running in task manager (and cpu/disk/mem usage seems low), I have done a clean boot and run Norton performance updates (and iolo system mechanic as well).
I am primarily a mac user, so not sure what to check next. Is there a tool to verify the chip and memory are performing to spec? Is the machine old enough to just be unbearably slow?
Would repartitioning the drives and a clean install of Windows help? I upgraded the machine from Win 8 to 10 quite some time ago (not a clean Win 10 install) and at that time it seemed ok. Running out of my limited ideas - if there are some obvious suggestions, I would appreciate it. Thx.
--travis
It has an i7 2 core chip + 8G RAM with 1T drive (5200rpm), running Windows 10.
I would think those specs would be decent to use for web browsing and simple document handling, but the start up time is terrible and then once it starts up - pretty much any program shows "(not responding)" and then finally completes when given a task.
I have all the latest Windows updates installed, I have run scf and dism utilities, I have defragged the partitions, nothing odd appears to be running in task manager (and cpu/disk/mem usage seems low), I have done a clean boot and run Norton performance updates (and iolo system mechanic as well).
I am primarily a mac user, so not sure what to check next. Is there a tool to verify the chip and memory are performing to spec? Is the machine old enough to just be unbearably slow?
Would repartitioning the drives and a clean install of Windows help? I upgraded the machine from Win 8 to 10 quite some time ago (not a clean Win 10 install) and at that time it seemed ok. Running out of my limited ideas - if there are some obvious suggestions, I would appreciate it. Thx.
--travis
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