Solved! Slow ideapad 330s

[anlarota]

Hi guys. I have a ideapad 330s 14 inch screeen intel core i7 8th generation 1 T HD 4G RAM 1 year old, of course no warranty at this point

I have antivirus instaled

The laptop has become really slow, to the point it is making very hard to make it start.
I am looking for suggestions. Increasing RAM may help?
Thanks

 

[helpstar]

to have a look what the problem could be:
run userbenchmark.com and post the http link of your result, e.g. https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/28977730

check windows integrity
open the command prompt as administrator and type DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-open-an-elevated-command-prompt-2618088
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...em-files/bc609315-da1f-4775-812c-695b60477a93


clean boot
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows


check the memory by running memtest.org usb autoinstaller (bootable USB flash drive)

check the hard drive for errors with its manufacturer´s tool

 

[hang-the-9]

With those specs, yes another 4gb of RAM would help as would swapping the drive for a solid state and doing a clean Windows setup. Or just try a clean Windows setup, it's likely to help you more than trying to sort out the issue on the current build, but more RAM and a solid state drive will speed it up by a lot.