Question HP Envy 360 touch screen slow no matter what

[IntrepidBongos]

I've been tooling around with what was supposed to be a nice laptop, a gift, this HP ENVY 360 CONVERTIBLE.
My problem, is that no matter what I do, this thing has been insultingly slow from the moment I took it out of the box. I've tried adding RAM, (now at 8GB from 4GB, no noticeable difference) formatting the hard drive and re-installing both windows 8 and 10, (This laptop will not work with windows 7), stripping it down to the bare bones programs, and STILL, it take a full minute to start up, 30 seconds to load anything, and despite being a nice looking laptop, it's basically been a bookend ever since I got it. EVERYTHING is slow.
Seeing as I did nearly everything, does anyone here know what to do, other than give it away?
Thanks.
IB

 

[hang-the-9]

A minute to boot is not that bad. When you say 30 seconds to load anything, you are talking about any programs to open or are you talking about web pages? Did you actually time them?

 

[IntrepidBongos]

Sorry fr the late reply!
I decided in the long run to just get a laptop I like better. all the programs drag on this model.
So in order to sell it to someone who might like the touch screen, I tried to "reset this PC" as offered in Win 10, BUT not it just gets stuck at "resetting this PC 35%" for hours and does nothing else.

Man, what a clunker.
What now? (Promise I'll respond quicker)

 

[Prostar Computer]

If you got a unit with a mechanical HDD as the primary/only storage device, then that's your bottleneck. An SSD will make it fly.

You might need to reinstall Win 10 from scratch unless HP has a built-in recovery console, or one for download from the 360's support page.