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Introduction - Attempting to tuneup a budget HP Notebook
I feel obligated to intro myself since I moderate a forum and know how spammers and trollers don't bother to do that. Hope I'm observing forum protocol or not providing too much info at one time.
Got an HP G56-WM129 on Black Friday 2010. Know it's a budget computer, yet outperforms four prior Windows xp machines. I've already read some of the threads here to speed thing up by reducing the services booting up, deleting Windows updates, turning off Aero and the high graphics, etc.
My objective is to have this notebook running as fast and as stable as possible.
- Notebook - 15.6 inch, 1366 x 768 (common)
- WiFi (standard)
- DVD drive (standard)
- 3 USB ports, one of them USB 2.0
- 3 GB RAM (DDR2) - upgradeable to 6 GB
- Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit
- Intel Celeron 900 CPU - 2.2 GHz
- 250 GB disk - 97 GB used
- Added 16 GB flashdrive with 4 GB Readyboost
- 500 GB external USB harddrive
Windows Experience: 3.3
- CPU: 4.4
- RAM: 5.1
- Graphics: 3.3
- Gaming Graphics: 3.3
- Hard disk: 5.9
Run:
- System Mechanic Pro
- CCleaner
- Defraggler
- COMODO internet security
- SpeedFan - CPU is 106F to 130F
Aside from general tuning advise, is ReadyBoost going to help me? Would replacing the harddrive on this budget notebook with an SSD make sense?