How can I breath new life into my pc

bigboi972 said:

What advice to you have for getting an ssd. I dont know much about them besides they are really fast. How will I know if it is compatible with my laptop. and which stores do you recommend getting one. I ask cause I typically use amazon for everything

Amazon is fine. Recently we saw first quality 120gb SSD at Tiger Direct for $49, also seeing 240gb for under $100 now. This is a great upgrade and better idea for doing the Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

Bertison said:

I have a much lower-spec Laptop than yours, also an HP, a 4 year old Pavilion Dv7, Dual Core AMD. I think you may have some problem that is affecting the performance, not connected with what appears to be a very good spec laptop. Last year I removed all the HP bloatware, as said in this Thread previously. I reinstalled Windows 7/64 and it now flies.

I think you may have to take a look at other issues, malware or overheating. Might be a silly question, but how do you use it? Laptops should not be called laptops IMHO, they are best used on a hard flat surface so that air can circulate under them. Have you tried taking a look underneath? Maybe the vents are blocked by dust, I strip ours every year and clean out the dust.

Just a few suggestions, I really think that laptop should be faster than you say it is.

I could not agree more with what you are saying. I think it should be way faster than what it is. In a moment here I will try to record a video showing my issues with it. I may wait and do a clean install first my girlfriend is giving me her 1tb hard drive and I need to get all my stuff off of it . Now as far as how im using it I never have sat it on my lap it is very heavy so that would be very uncomfortable. I have an expandable battery pack attached to it which came from hp not 3rd party. It elevates the computer high off the flat surface its on so its heavily ventilated. As of now I have done malware search on my computer because I downloaded some on accident recently but I have been having these issues before that incident. I will do a virus scan here in a moment

andrew129260 said:

Bertison said:

I have a much lower-spec Laptop than yours, also an HP, a 4 year old Pavilion Dv7, Dual Core AMD. I think you may have some problem that is affecting the performance, not connected with what appears to be a very good spec laptop. Last year I removed all the HP bloatware, as said in this Thread previously. I reinstalled Windows 7/64 and it now flies.

I think you may have to take a look at other issues, malware or overheating. Might be a silly question, but how do you use it? Laptops should not be called laptops IMHO, they are best used on a hard flat surface so that air can circulate under them. Have you tried taking a look underneath? Maybe the vents are blocked by dust, I strip ours every year and clean out the dust.

Just a few suggestions, I really think that laptop should be faster than you say it is.

I agree. Malware may be present.

I scanned my pc with malware bytes is that the correct piece of software to scan for malware

As of today I have done a clean install and I am still having the same issues.

Just wondering what's the story with the computer RAM front?

RAM is pretty inexpensive these days.... at least compared to what it used to be.

dperecky said:

Just wondering what's the story with the computer RAM front?

RAM is pretty inexpensive these days.... at least compared to what it used to be.

what do you mean by computer ram front ?

gregrocker said:

Same hard drive? Test it and all hardware from Troubleshooting Steps for Windows 7 .

You can install CrystalDiskInfo - Software info to read the hardware status, copy and report back.

Then Test RAM with Memtest86+ for 7 passes or overnight to stress it. How much RAM is detected at Control Panel>System?

What have you done to check for overheating? Install Core Temp to monitor temps in system tray.

I will get started on this tomorrow thanks everyone for your assistance