Laptop unusually slow?

Question

I recently got a handmedown laptop from my sister. i used to use it a little for playing with friends because my parents took and lost my laptop. It ran the games very well then her boyfriend wiped the laptop and installed windows 10.
It can't run the games very well and some text on my screen is unusually pixelated and it is very annoying. I asked this question yesterday but nobody responded. Please help!

Answer 1

It seems windows 10 is a bit heavy for it, but I don't think installing a new OS will be much better for it at this point.

I recommend you defragment your disk. You can do it on your own and it'll help it run a little faster. Just press the windows key and x, select control panel > system and security > administrative tools > defragment and optimize your drives.

That'll take a while but once it's done, run a scan to make sure you're virus free. If you don't have an antivirus, download malwarabytes scan and run a full scan. If that comes clean as well and your laptop is still slow you might want to uninstall some programs that take up unneeded space and defragment again.

If you try all that and it's still slow then you're out of options pretty much. Congratulate your sisters boyfriend for being a dumbass and have him reinstall an older version of windows. Good luck.

Answer 2

The requirements to run Win 10 are the same as Win XP and less than Win 7 or Win 8.x. So it is probably NOT a requirement issue with Win 10. It is most likely that the laptop is too old, was no longer being made or sold, and so Microsoft did not include any drivers for that laptop model. So it is running on generic drivers that will work on the hardware, That is why you have pixelized graphics - generic graphic driver.



You can look ontheufacturer's web site and see if they have drivers for Win 10 available for the laptop model. (If not, see what druvers they do have and consider moving to one of those versions of WIndows.) If there are no drivers, there is nothing you can do.

Answer 3

The requirements to run Win 10 are the same as Win XP and less than Win 7 or Win 8.x. So it is probably NOT a requirement issue with Win 10. It is most likely that the laptop is too old, was no longer being made or sold, and so Microsoft did not include any drivers for that laptop model. So it is running on generic drivers that will work on the hardware, That is why you have pixelized graphics - generic graphic driver.

pls open task manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+ DEL or right click on the task bar and select Task manager and go to performance TAB.you can find what is busy ? 100% working,



need to go to service and disable BITS and supper fetch to reduce work load and restart

Answer 4

Were the laptop previously using Windows 7, you can roll Windows 10 back to Windows 7 by rolling back the laptop to factory settings and it will work and this problem will be gone when Windows 10 is removed when the laptop is rolled back to the factory settings. All programs that were downloaded previously that were not part of the factory settings will need to be downloaded again because the roll back will delete all programs that didn't come with the laptop when it was new. Also back up all your files and pictures to a DVD so they'll be able to be downloaded from the DVD to the laptop after the rollback has been completed.

Answer 5

Get the original recovery disks and do a clean reinstall of the previous operating system - it sounds like Windows 10 might not be able to find new drivers for the older hardware.



You don't mention what the earlier operating system was...but I'm betting on Windows 7 - as it had the "free upgrade to Windows 10" that earlier operating systems didn't get. I doubt that your sister's boyfriend paid anything for the chance to "upgrade" your laptop.



Good luck.

Answer 6

Memory on the laptop, with Win 10 get at least 4 Gb, 6 if possible (most laptops are (X64)

Answer 7

Hi Deez.



Friends of friends usually ruin things but thanks to them we have question to answer here and technicians have work to do :) If you think it's too much hassle to downgrade again to your previous Windows system, then just reduce the proportion of the image in the screen properties, just a little and reduce too the refreshing frequency to 50 Hz, that would be help to see videos like before without the pixelation. Also you can open the properties of every game with your right click and choose compatibility mode with the previous Operative System that you had, if it was Windows 8, then choose compatibility with Win 8 and that's it.

Answer 8

It sounds as if the laptop isn't capable of running Windows 10. The best thing to do may be to have the boyfriend do a system restore on the computer to get the former Windows OS re-installed.

Answer 9

there was no laptop specs for identify the problem, if RAM 1GB it is a problem for running O/S. also hard drive partition is small ,there is a problem. cpu power MHz is not good also slow the pc.

pls open task manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+ DEL or right click on the task bar and select Task manager and go to performance TAB.you can find what is busy ? 100% working,



need to go to service and disable BITS and supper fetch to reduce work load and restart

Answer 10

If your laptop is working slow then scan with antivirus, delete your all temporary file of your system, and end the entire unnecessary file running in your system by task manager. It might help you to.

Answer 11

download and update malwarebytes... put you pc in safe mode then run malwarebyres to see if there's suspect issues...

Answer 12

That happened to mine but I had mine reloaded it 2 times then it worked well again

Answer 13

I don't know why a laptop would be slow

Answer 14

your laptop must have literally only 1mb of ram, go get a new one instead of using a laptop from the 90s

Answer 15

Well, your sister probably installed viruses on the computer. Get anti-virus software or purchase a new laptop.

Answer 16

sounds like when the os was reloaded the gpu driver was not reloaded so the pc doses not know how to use the gpu and everything is laggy... go into device manager and see if you can update any unknown devices... right click on start click device manger

Answer 17

Download and update malwarebytes. Put you pc in safe mode then run malwarebyres to see if there's suspect issues.

Answer 18

sounds like when the os was reloaded the gpu driver was not reloaded so the pc doses not know how to use the gpu and everything is laggy......... go into device manager and see if you can update any unknown devices......... right click on start click device manger

Answer 19

i don't know why a laptop would be slow

Answer 20

if its an older laptop that say, came with XP or an older OS, then 10 may be too much for it and use all its resources up ...

Answer 21

sounds like when the os was reloaded the gpu driver was not reloaded so the pc doses not know how to use the gpu and everything is laggy......... go into device manager and see if you can update any unknown devices......... right click on start click device manger

Answer 22

sounds like when the OS was reloaded the GPU Driver was not reloaded so the PC doses not know how to use the GPU and everything is laggy. go into device manager and see if you can update any unknown devices. right click on start click DEVICE MANGER

Answer 23

I suggest you at first check your computer operating system & uninstall the unused software. but it not working smoothly of course then you setup windows. I hope that your problem may be solved.

Answer 24

Most motherboards would say what the Max amount of RAM it would take. Just look up the model and see if it tell the Max amount of RAM

Answer 25

Firstly you close your extra running application and increase your pc ram this is the main factor because low ram the main factor

Answer 26

firstly you close your extra running application and increase your pc ram this is the main factor 'cause low ram the main factor

Answer 27

firstly you close your extra running application and increase your pc ram this is the main factor 'cause low ram the main factor

Answer 28

download and update malwarebytes... put you pc in safe mode then run malwarebyres to see if there's suspect issues...

Answer 29

most motherboards would say what the max amount of ram it would take... just look up the model and see if it tell the max amount of ram

Answer 30

You don't have the right software drivers on it.

Answer 31

Weak Processor too.. dump it.

Answer 32

I would just buy a new one

Answer 33

Your sister has a SMART boy friend. In other words................NO one wants you using the computer for your stupid games.

Answer 34

Clean all cache, that might be the reason

Answer 35

this happened to mine to

Answer 36

conop

Answer 37

you need to charge the battery