need help asus ROG laptop

[Rkuhn]

I recent bought a asus g60vx ROG laptop and I reinstalled windows windows 7 64 bit just to freshen it up from the guy I bought it from, installed all the major drivers graphics,wifi,audio and the goods and I did all the updates of the windows update program so its all up to date, but its being slower then hell and its download speed is horrendous,

specs are:
windows 7 home premium sp1 64bit
intel core 2 duo t9600 2.8ghz
4gb ram
gpu - NVidia GeForce gtx260m 1gb

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

Did you do a clean install of Windows 7 using a disc or did you use Asus Recovery system? Slowness of a laptop can be caused by a hardware problem, driver and virus.
- Do start by testing your HDD and see if it's healthy or not.
- Next is to update all your drivers (graphics, wireless, firmwares)
- If all these will not work I would suggest reinstalling Windows 7.

 

[ffg7]

did you disable some of the windows updates in regard to windows 10 as it might be downloading itself as you are using the laptop causing your download speeds to be slow?

 

[Rkuhn]

@laptopnerd its a dual hard drive laptop and im 90% sure all drivers are updates and it was used from a disk I bought using my own coa sticker key.

@ffg7 I disabled the windows 10 thing entirely as I don't want to upgrade windows yet

 

[ffg7]

did you do this as per Laptop_Nerd's question " - Do start by testing your HDD and see if it's healthy or not."?

 

[Rkuhn]

oh gotcha I read it wrong, how do I go about testing my hard drive to see if its bad? the main c drive one anyways

 

[ffg7]

do a properties on your c:/drive, select the tools tab, click on "check now" icon on "error-checking", put a check mark in the "scan for & attempt recovery of bad sectors" box & click on start. it might want to reschedual that for the next time you start windows so say yes & restart windows. Do Not touch any keys so that the scandisk can startup after restarting windows. will go thru 5 stages so could take hours.