Joshua Brown
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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?
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?