Need help with slow laptop

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Hello ! Glad to be here in this forum...
I've got this oldy HP pavilion dm1. It was bought with windows 7 home edition. It used to run with decent speed.
It's specs are 6GB RAM / AMD e-450 UPU + Radeon HD Graphics 1.65 Ghz. At some point it started to be laggy, so I tried this and that, reinstalled a few OS's...
Now I use Win 7 Ultimate, and again it's laggy.

I have cleaned junk files/registry stuff.
I use ordinary theme (not Aero).
Removed visual effects;
I have defragmented drives.
There is no overheathing also.

I use 4GB SDHC card with ReadyBoost. (I don't know if it actually works, every now & then the card ejects and reconnects again, by itself) ;
I increased the page file size -> initial : 8000 MB / max: 26000 MB;

So, guys, I hope you can give me some advice or opinion about this all... Have a great day! :)
 
it's running an old gen processor with embedded GPU at 1.6Ghz - sorry, but it will be slow, especially when you start having multiple programs open.

I would for starters, load a fresh Win10 and see if that helps. mind you Win7 was pretty efficient anyway.
what OS's have you tried?
when does it lag - randomly, certain games, all the time?

your main issue is simply running current gen software on outdated hardware that was never envisaged to run such software.
 
Bruce said:
it's running an old gen processor with embedded GPU at 1.6Ghz - sorry, but it will be slow, especially when you start having multiple programs open.

I would for starters, load a fresh Win10 and see if that helps. mind you Win7 was pretty efficient anyway.
what OS's have you tried?
when does it lag - randomly, certain games, all the time?

your main issue is simply running current gen software on outdated hardware that was never envisaged to run such software.
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Hi,
I tried Win7 home/pro ... It lags mostly when I browse with the web browser.
It takes a lot of time to start an application.
Visual Code studio is very laggy.
Photoshop & Illustrator run nicely until you make more complicated projects.
Interestingly, Half-life 2 runs decently on medium video settings, can be a nice experience to play.
Haven't installed antivirus currently.
 
veeg said:
Hello

What background software do you have running?

@Bruce
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I have stopped a few unnecessary processes. Other than that, a few driver processes are running, like mouse pad stuff, cpu cooler, power manager. It's the same situation without them, too.
 
I'd be backing up my data and loading a fresh copy of Win10.
use the Windows Media Creation Tool from Microsoft to download the Win10 ISO onto a bootable USB stick.
chances are excellant that you will still be able to upgrade for free.
even if not, you'll get 30 days to try it and see if the problem goes away.

when you say laggy, do you mean everything is just super slow, or that when watching videos for example, the audio and the video don't match up?
 
Bruce said:
I'd be backing up my data and loading a fresh copy of Win10.
use the Windows Media Creation Tool from Microsoft to download the Win10 ISO onto a bootable USB stick.
chances are excellant that you will still be able to upgrade for free.
even if not, you'll get 30 days to try it and see if the problem goes away.

when you say laggy, do you mean everything is just super slow, or that when watching videos for example, the audio and the video don't match up?
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Right...I installed fresh Win10.
I think the PC is a little slower than with Win7.

By "laggy" I mean that generally starting up of apps and using them is slowly. Takes time to open, takes time to save a project.Many times, when app is maximized from task bar it takes like 2 or 3 seconds to open. If I start fast scrolling, like in excel it lags terribly.

It's the CPU mate. It is simply not good.
Is there a way to compensate slow CPU ?
I was considering overclocking, what do you think ?

If the laptop can be upgraded, may be with more RAM, do you think I should go for it ?
 
not a great deal you can do with it being a laptop.
the best bang for buck upgrade would be putting in a SSD if it hasn't already got one.
next would be more memory if it can handle it.

but at the end of the day, the bottleneck will always be the CPU.
 
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