Laptop so so slow

[mark4supra]

Hi!
This is my second post about my laptop being so so slow.
It takes so long just for the laptop to start. There are no files except some software.
And it takes forever for it to open explorer.
Antivirus are also slow. Avast completed 1% in 3 hours. So that is no use.
HDD sentinel showed 90% health. The hard drive is 5 years old.
Any help is apreciated.

 

[RoasterMen]

90% health means something with the performance of the drive. Did Sentinel show bad sectors? It's probably that reason why your computer is slow because a block of the storage is corrupted and cannot be accessed anymore.

 

[Megahertz07]

Please give us all the Laptop hardware specs.

I would say that you have a failing HDD. (showed 90% health)
Boot from Win 7 installation disk, go to repair and open a CMD window.
Type:
chkdsk C: /f
IF it doesn't find bad blocks or bad clusters
Type:
sfc /scannow

 

[mark4supra]

Hdd sentinal showed 2 bad sectors.
Specs are
i5 2430m
4gb 666 mhz ram
600gb toshiba hdd

 

[Megahertz07]

did you run Check disk and System File check?
Do you have any yellow alerts on device manager?

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Might be time for replacement thoughts
A lot of good ssd prices out there
2.5 hdd's have been pretty cheap for some time 500gb about 60.us
Amazon.com: WD Scorpio Black 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Bulk/OEM 2.5 Mobile Hard Drive (WD5000BPKT): Electronics

 

[mark4supra]

Check discs for some reason doesnt wanna run. Starting to think hdd is crapping out.

 

[Megahertz07]

Did you run from Win 7 installation disk as I posted on # 3?

 

[mark4supra]

i dont even have one. C

 

[Megahertz07]

What kind is your Win 7 license (Home, HP, Pro or Ultimate)?
This link is for Pro, valid for 24 hours https://software-download.microsoft.com/db/Win7_Pro_SP1_English_x64.iso?t=26e547a1-1ea9-493b-93c7-69049a4de362&e=1505268281&h=76988546ac1fd20bd6545a7910eadd75

 

[looked]

What kind is your Win 7 license (Home, HP, Pro or Ultimate)?
This link is for Pro, valid for 24 hours

I think if you use a different installation DVD from the one which was used to install the OS (Windows sees it that way), it won't allow you to perform some tasks, correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Megahertz07]

A win 7 disk has all brands of win 7 (Home, HP, Pro and Ultimate), and you can use the disk to install any of them. All you have to do is to delete the \sources\ei.cfg file and it will ask what brand you want to install.
It will only activate with the appropriate key.
The installation wizard and the repair Wizard is the same for all brands.

What you can't do is to try to repair a Win 7 64 with a Win 7 32 installation disk (and vice versa)

 

[looked]

A win 7 disk has all brands of win 7 (Home, HP, Pro and Ultimate), and you can use the disk to install any of them. All you have to do is to delete the \sources\ei.cfg file and it will ask what brand you want to install.
It will only activate with the appropriate key.
The installation wizard and the repair Wizard is the same for all brands.

What you can't do is to try to repair a Win 7 64 with a Win 7 32 installation disk (and vice versa)

I remember long time ago when I tried to repair the Windows 7 machine from a downloaded iso image I didn't know the ei.cfg trick so I hope next time I need to do a repair Windows will not bother me with these marketing scams.
Thanks for help.

 

[daniellouwrens]

Before you do anything else have a look here

Tweaking Optimizing Windows Operating System
Tweaking & Optimizing Windows Operating System

It fixed my issue 100%

Cheers

Daniel