Wifes Laptop Is Slow

Minibiker

Minibiker

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Hi all

My wife is always complaining about her laptop being slow to load pages on the Internet and programs freezing, Its a Sony Vaio that she got about 6/7 years ago...

Shes still running an older windows on the machine and she always has to press buttons during start up to skip some black screen with a lot of writing on.... :confused:

Anybody with any knowledge on laptops know what the issue may be and is there anything I can do personally to fix it?

Thanks :)
 
Also may be worth while installing a new SSD hard drive into it.

Laptop HDD's are notorious for being slow, it should make things much snappier.
 
Same with my wife's laptop, I ended up backing up her important stuff and slapped Cloudready on it, it's like a brand new machine now.
 
I have a old Dell D630 which is fine for it's use of backing up my weather station data but I was fed up with the long boot times. I had a spare Crucial M4 ssd lying around after upgrading the ssd's in my main pc so cloned the hard drive before removing it and replaced it with the SSD. The difference is like night and day. Well worth doing.
 
Thank you for all the replies guys... Couple of questions

Wheres best to store old photos and how?
Whats best way to wipe the system?
Do OCUK stock any SSD's ideal for a laptop and are they easy to fit? Ive built my own PC's in the past so I have some idea of whats inside..

Also i have Windows 10 usb shall i install that...

Thanks
 
Minibiker said:
Thank you for all the replies guys... Couple of questions

Wheres best to store old photos and how?
Whats best way to wipe the system?
Do OCUK stock any SSD's ideal for a laptop and are they easy to fit? Ive built my own PC's in the past so I have some idea of whats inside..

Also i have Windows 10 usb shall i install that...

Thanks
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https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cruc...lid-state-drive-ct525mx300ssd1-hd-063-cr.html

Cheapest Large scale SSD of 50GB + - might be able to get away with their 275GB version which is still cheapest in storage class
 
Laptop hdd's are the same length and width as a SSD although the SSD is thinner. It should be a straight swap though. Any 2.5" ssd should fit. My old laptop is only sata2 so is not getting the full speed of the sata3 SSD but the boot times are still significantly quicker.

I keep all of my photographs etc on a external hard drive.
 
pastymuncher said:
Laptop hdd's are the same length and width as a SSD although the SSD is thinner. It should be a straight swap though. Any 2.5" ssd should fit. My old laptop is only sata2 so is not getting the full speed of the sata3 SSD but the boot times are still significantly quicker.

I keep all of my photographs etc on a external hard drive.
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I've also had a couple ssds turn up with a little bracket to make it thicker to help it fit inside a laptop, Kingston ones I think.
 
Badfish said:
Like this above said, put in a SSD and a fresh copy of Windows. It will seem like a new computer!
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+1 without a doubt.

I work in a school and laptops are slowly now being re-fitted with Windows 10 and SSD's.

Never seen so many biscuits in the Network support teams' office.
 
assuming is supports sata then put an ssd in it and put either win 7 or win 10 on it which ever is easiest and then check out hose much ram it holds or can hold and maybe upgrade it if possible, im guessing its a celeron or a T series pentium dual as most vaio ive seen lately of old have those.
 
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