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How do I fix a slow operating system
Hello everyone
I am an absolute newbie at Windows 7, my wife got a ‘off lease’ computer for Christmas that is driving me nuts.
Dell Optiplex-760
Windows 7 Pro SP1
Intel Core Duo E7300 @2.66GHz
64bit OS with 2 GB ram
1 HD split (66.3GB / 74.4GB) lots of free space
I noticed right off the bat that it seemed to run very slow, the first thing I did was Windows updates. It took two days to get all the updates and install them which, to me, seems excessively slow as my 13 year old XP (SP2) system from a fresh install can do it in less than a day.
Normally, with XP, when I have a problem that I can’t figure out I go to PC Pitstop.com and run an online test which usually at least points me in the right direction. After spending an entire day setting up IE 11 to allow Active X and their applet to run the new machine took about 70 minutes to run the test and the web page times out after 20 min. so no results.
Next I tried defragging, it was 16% fragmented and took about 8 hrs. to defrag down to 0%, (two passes I think). That got the run time of the test down to about 35 min. Sill too long.
I’ve tried MalwareByts and CCleaner to no avail. Because it seemed, to me, to be an OS problem, I installed a simple hidden object game which worked great, and then FireFox and things got interesting.
When the game is shut down it opens the default browser and directs it to the page the game was downloaded from, it opens and downloads the page in a matter of seconds, I wish it was that fast on my XP machine. However if I click on the desktop FireFox icon it takes about 90 sec. to boot up, and the same for IE.
If I had this problem with my computer I would just reinstall windows xp but this one came without a disk and I don’t know how to do it without.
My wife and I would greatly appreciate any help with this.
Thank you.