Why would my older laptop be so slow?

Joshua Brown

New Member
Obvious answer, because it's old, right? It's a laptop from 2012. I installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 x64, installed AVG Free, Chrome, PeaZip and the Intel wifi driver.

Chrome takes twenty minutes to load. Peazip is coming up on an hour to extract a 2gb file. When I ctrl+alt+del, the screen goes black and I have to hard reset. Every single task I try to complete is delayed or doesn't happen.

And yes, the computer is old. But it has an i7 3610qm, 4 cores, 8 threads up to 3.3ghz, 8gb of ram, a 512gb hybrid drive, a new cooling fan, it's on battery power. Aside from "it's old" there is no conceivable *other* reason why it should be acting this lethargic. The OS is appropriate for its' age. The software I installed isn't terribly resource-hungry.

What makes this happen?
 

johnb35

Administrator
Staff member
Bad hard drive, failing ram, something up with the motherboard, other hardware causing the issue. Possibilities keep going. My guess lies with the hybrid drive as they are junk nowadays anyway. So start there.
 
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