Hoping someone might be able to help before I break out the lighter fluid and a match.
Dell Inspirion 15, 3000 series, laptop. I3 5015U processor, 2.1G, Win 10 home, 64 bit, 2004 win build, but it's never been good. ~4 years old.
This thing has been a POS since I bought it, but it's gotten worse. Wife claimed it after I went back to my old 2005 1.6 Celeron XP laptop. I've modest PC knowledge, far from expert, but the extended family IT guy. Typing this on an XP machine I built 10 years ago and it's still running ok, although it's showing it's age.
Often, very slow to start and will hang. Often it will get slower and slower, then not work at all. Sometimes just internet, various browsers, it's the machine/OS, not the browser. Typically it means it's updated and wants to install and restart, or it might be it wants to update. Seems daily, but realistically it's at least twice a week, probably 3 times. Update Tuesday? Ha, update daily. Today it locked up on what turned out to be "Preparing security options" I think it was. Push and hold on the start button was the only thing that worked. A couple of times pulling the battery was the only thing that worked. Lightweight use, some local games, not online, some internet, a fraction of what I do with mine. Commonly it will lose WIFI and needs to be disconnected then reconnected to make it work. I've disabled everything I can at startup to try to improve it, but it's still a slug.
I've been dealing with PCs since DOS 3.5. Then Dos 5, Win 3.1, 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 7 and this thing. This is the only one I've hated, and boy do I hate it. But they can't all be like this, can they? Or are they? Would a 10 Pro key off ebay do any good?
Help appreciated.
Dell Inspirion 15, 3000 series, laptop. I3 5015U processor, 2.1G, Win 10 home, 64 bit, 2004 win build, but it's never been good. ~4 years old.
This thing has been a POS since I bought it, but it's gotten worse. Wife claimed it after I went back to my old 2005 1.6 Celeron XP laptop. I've modest PC knowledge, far from expert, but the extended family IT guy. Typing this on an XP machine I built 10 years ago and it's still running ok, although it's showing it's age.
Often, very slow to start and will hang. Often it will get slower and slower, then not work at all. Sometimes just internet, various browsers, it's the machine/OS, not the browser. Typically it means it's updated and wants to install and restart, or it might be it wants to update. Seems daily, but realistically it's at least twice a week, probably 3 times. Update Tuesday? Ha, update daily. Today it locked up on what turned out to be "Preparing security options" I think it was. Push and hold on the start button was the only thing that worked. A couple of times pulling the battery was the only thing that worked. Lightweight use, some local games, not online, some internet, a fraction of what I do with mine. Commonly it will lose WIFI and needs to be disconnected then reconnected to make it work. I've disabled everything I can at startup to try to improve it, but it's still a slug.
I've been dealing with PCs since DOS 3.5. Then Dos 5, Win 3.1, 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 7 and this thing. This is the only one I've hated, and boy do I hate it. But they can't all be like this, can they? Or are they? Would a 10 Pro key off ebay do any good?
Help appreciated.