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Its so slow, it takes half an hour just to log in, its so bad, I've attempted to dismantle it and everything looked okay so i just put it back together and the problem stayed the same

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Something this OLD is going to have an laptop hard drive -- and those are painfully slow, even when they are working well.

 

I have an HP laptop of similar age and I replaced the 500GB internal hard drive with a 500GB SSD and the performance got a LOT better.

 

It is also likely, with a drive this old, that it is simply failing -- especially if it ran faster long ago and has slowed down a lot over time.

 

So, to check out the drive, press the Esc key repeatedly while rebooting and when the HP menu comes up, press F2 to do the diagnostics tests.



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