[SOLVED] Very slow running

[enfield250]

Hello,
I have a Toshiba Satellite C50D-A-13x laptop, that is running really slow.
When I say slow it has taken nearly an hour to uninstall photoshop 9.
I realise it will be quite slow, but not this slow. When it actually starts to uninstall files it seems to go quite fast then just hangs.
Any ideas, please?

 

[COLGeek]

How full is the HDD?

 

[enfield250]

It has a 750GB HDD which is split into two partitions.
The windows partition is about half full.
It's running the latest version of Windows Home 20H2.
It seems to take an age to actually launch any program, but once it's running it seems fine.
I've tried optimising the HDD, it took 30 mins and had only done 9%.
Cheers,

 

[COLGeek]

The HDD is likely at the root of your problems.

You might consider installing Seatools for Windows to check the "health" of your HDD.

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[enfield250]

COLGeek,
Thanks for the pointer.
I have downloaded Seatools and all the tests pass.
I left the disk optomising overnight and it seems a lot better this morning.
Cheers,

 

[enfield250]

How wrong could I be!
I'm now back to square one, I removed some unwanted programs and ran the optimisation program again.
The optimisation took nearly an hour to complete.
I then got a message saying windows will update outside normal hours or I could restart now. I chose to restart now.
I now have a blue screen with the words "Preparing to configure Windows Do not turn off your computer".
It's been like that for about 10 mins so far.
Before I did the optimisation I looked at Disk Management.
The disk has five partitions "Recovery Partition" " Disk C Windows" EFI Recovery Partition" "Recovery Partition" Disk D"
the laptop had been upgraded to Win 10 from Win 8 before I bought it, still got the blue screen as above.
Any other ideas, please?

 

[Lafong]

Multiple recovery partitions isn't unusual.

I'd really try to let Windows Update run to completion even if it took all day and night.

When did you last run Disk Cleanup, including system files?

Laptop drives are typically 5400 rpm and notoriously slow. That's the price you pay for portability if you don't have an SSD.

 

[COLGeek]

It might simply be time to save your files/docs elsewhere and then fully re-install Windows 10 and your applications.

Simplify your partitions and stop all the defrag/optimizing. Better yet, swapping the HDD for a SSD would improve overall performance significantly.

 

[enfield250]

COLGeek,
I have been trying to use the recovery partition to reload everything.
The manual says hold the "0" key down whilst the machine powers up.
Nothing happens if I hold the "0" key down. The screen stays black until I release the "0" key then it just loads windows.
GRRR!

 

[COLGeek]

I suggest re-installing via this route instead:

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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