Question Laptop Slow, Windows 10, Few programs, lot of free space?

Mar 22, 2019
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Acer Aspire ES 15
Intel Core i3-6006u Intel HD Graphics 520, up to 4158 MB Dynamic Video Memory
8GB DDR4 Memory
1000GB HDD
Hope that helps been a while since ive posted for help maybe 7yrs. (Not the age of the laptop) My laptop keeps taking a long time to load up and then when it does its taking a while to load anything. I have only a few programs installed and nothing that it shouldn't handle very easily, I do stream most of my T.V and films but thats about all.
Any help would be awesome.
Thanks in advance.
 
Well let's take a look at a few things. On a fresh restart, load the task manager and go to the Performance tab. After a few minutes what does the CPU and RAM use settle at? How many programs load at startup? Try a boot into safe mode (yes, you can get there in Win 10 - hold down Shift while restarting from the start menu to bring up a troubleshooting menu and navigate to "Startup settings." How much better are things in safe mode?
 
I was thinking another possibility which is all too commonly seen in Windows 10 is high HDD use as shown in the Task Manager. Some possible solutions to common causes are here


If all else fails, consider doing a fresh install