Hp all in one really slow

[black_panther84]

Hello everyone, I have just acquired an hp all in one, and everything is slow. I mean everything, everything from the mouse scrolling, to typing text, and loading web pages. I am about to just get rid of it. Does anyone have any suggestiong first, before I do?

[LDL1]

If you could post the model number or specifications that would help. Sometimes you don't have enough memory or the CPU is just slow but I can't make any judgements on hardware until you post those things. 😉

Anyways, there could be a few issues other than low RAM (memory) or a slow CPU that could make things grind to a halt:

- The computer may be dirty and could cause the compter to overheat. Once a computer overheats, it slows down the CPU to make sure it doesn't cook itself. Try turning off the computer and blowing debris out of the system with a can of compressed air. Make sure you sqeeze through all of the vents.

- The hard drive might be dying. That's usually noticeable when it takes forever to load applications, files, and folders.

- The computer might have too many tasks running. Some may be unwanted. If you can manage to uninstall some things that you aren't using and run a free anti-virus progam like Avast or MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, things may speed up. Sometimes it's just for the best to restore the system to a factory image. Most HP PCs have some sort of recovery partition on the hard drive that can be used to ge the PC running with a clean slate. The manual for the PC should document how to do this, but you'd have to provide the model number for that in order to find it.

I hope this helps somewhat. Message back if you need more help.