Why Is My Laptop So Slow And How To Make It Faster
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2022
- Why Is My Laptop So Slow And How To Make It Faster
So you have a old slow laptop and want to speed it up? well this video is for you. The best way make your old laptop fast again is either replace the CPU if the CPU has has a socket in the old laptop. The second way is to add more ram to the laptop if possible. The third way is to replace the hard drive and install a SSD into the laptop.
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Love the video.
but i've seen too many self upgrades with wrong memory or backwards memory or bent CPU pins.
And dont get me started on cross-threaded screws...
Mine is a 2015 Toshiba satellite with 4gb Ram. Was told that adding a extra 4gb will Not speed the PC because it is a Celeron. Amy comments?
Cheers Bri, all those dodgy porn and torrent sites can give you a bit of stress
@@hamidob6569 Celeron ? Celery’s CPU
Nice video.
I upgrade old computers with SSD's all the time. Just did 2 yesterday.
Only thing you have to wait for is the clone process, and even that is painfully slow for the final copy of data from the old drive to the new one.
9 times out of 10 on old systems, all you need to do is get replace those clunky, grindy, mechanical hard drives, and don't need to upgrade RAM at all to see an incredible speed performance.
Honestly, I don't know how we survived years ago without SSD's, and have no idea how they are even allowed to be in some systems being sold brand new today. It's almost criminal to do so.
I did that just last month. Indeed the clone process is slow. But I did it and have a faster laptop (just as a spare, not for daily work).
Good advice. I've a Toshiba Satellite from 2011. Put in a reclaimed SSD and extra ram for less than £15 thanks to eBay. What a difference!
Me too. I have passed the old Toshiba laptop to my wife. Now I have just bought a Framwork laptop, I put in my own memory and hard drive. I'm very happy with it, and expect I will upgrade different parts as I progress.
I still have a working 98SE (Gateway) + 1 home built, XP (Acer) + 1 home built and Vista system (Gateway laptop). I keep them for only a few reasons
1. I can still play my old flight sim along with a couple of older games that I liked
2. Because of certain programs or software that is still useful that I liked and no longer available.
3. Kinda kept as museum pieces and they are never used connected to online.
Some are stripped for useable parts and possible rebuilds for whatever I might want to create, such as an alternate operating system, NAS, drive storage.
Other than that when something is too old ( Pentium era or older) it pretty much becomes recyclable waste.
You are correct with if your system is too old don't invest too much money into it, just get a newer system when able to do so. Parts are getting hard to come by for these older systems.
Great video Brian!
Thanks Brian.
Great way of giving an ageing laptop a computational boost.
Which is an excellent alternative, when considering the massive amount of e-waste inundating our world today.
IMHO, keeping our devices functioning for as longer as they can, is better for everyone.
Thanks Geo
I just finished doing this type of project to an old Dell Latitude E6410 to try to squeeze a couple more years out of it. While you're at it you can also blow any dust out of the cpu cooling fan, and maybe even reapply new thermal paste (if you decide to just keep the same processor). Hoping to make it last for the remaining support life of Windows 10.
Love your practical approach... Thanks for your videos... Love them
Glad you like them!
Superb job ,brian an exellent job sir.well done.
I never thought I'd enjoy watching something like this, it's beyond fascinating, any chance of doing some more videos like this please Brian.
Sure thing!
@@Britec09 thank you. 😎
Hello Brian, you have a great style and your videos are so informative! Thanks for all you do. I do have a question... what website did you use to show the specs for that laptop? Looks like a great resource. Thanks!
Thank You 🙏 🙏🙏
Basically My Lenovo 430s That Well All PXE:/ & Some Other BSOD,Went Today & For A Quick SSD -Drive As Lenovo Make Life So Different In Every Laptop / Thinkpads / My Workstation ( I bought for £150 & 1tb space until I get my Lenovo Back). There Wares Are all Different In many,many ways but cannot wait to pick-up my 32RAM & SSD should do the job on a lightweight laptop most government offices use , I did add extra RAM as 2-bays below the Keyboard & another 2 bays below the laptop “ why went all out with a non moving parts SSD” . Thanks Again Bri LIFESAVER & SOME FINE INFO … LOVED ALL THE FIRESTICK VIDEOS TOO & KEEP DOING WHAT YIR DOING SCOTLAND DEPENDS ON YOU 🏴🏴🏴😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👌10/10 BEST SUBSCRIPTION EVER
Yes Brian my oldest laptop is quite slow but not as slow as the one your video. My main laptop now has one of those Nv ME drives and stacks of RAM in it and is super fast. Having said that my other two laptops are still quite quick though I don't use them much these days. Plus I have found following your channel for many years now (from the old Vista days) has also helped me understand and do upgrading stuff and fixes for computers i have had!🙂
Good to hear
@@Britec09 No worries mate as there have been times that I have not been savvy enough to work something out and your tutorials have helped out enormously.
I needed this
Thank you very much Brian, the video was very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanx for the video. Oh for the days when you could just remove a cover and access things inside rather than now that you have to strip the back off and quite often the keyboard as well.
You are among best smart, keen person I ever follow. U know what I am stupid because I didnot express my admiration at this page. Thank you so much
Thanks for watching
Man... Sony Vaio, I remember owning one of those. Meanwhile my current Laptop boots in less than 5 seconds. lol
Thanks again Brian for a great video. If I downloaded Windows 10 onto that laptop (given it had a valid copy prior) the license key should be recognized on the mother board from Microsoft correct? If it was purchased with 7 or 10 already on it. Thank you again!!
Good video as always. Not a great deal you can do but what you done should help
Thanks 👍
Thanks you.
Adding more memory and an SSD is always a good idea but for a very basic internet machine installing Chrome OS Flex (if it works, test from USB before install) would make it even faster than Windows, more secure and less maintenance would be required for the end user. Keep in mind, Chrome OS Flex is not yet final but will be in the very near future.
I agree
@@Britec09 Plans for a video when it is released (out of dev release)?
I did this a few years ago with my 2009 Toshiba duo core a few years back, so much of a difference. What site did you use for CPU status?
I did similar to my wife's Dell laptop. I swapped the 1TB HDD for a 512GB SSD (she never really saves stuff on the laptop HD as here work in on line. it already had 1 4Gb & 1 2GB ram so I left them as they were. It is definitely much faster.
Almost similiar like my laptop, so slow on windows, but for linux, not bad at all and can do the virtualbox alike...
hi Brian, when swapping the cpu is it important that the FSB frequency is the same 800 or 1066, I want a faster chip and a bigger cache from a 2.2/ 1m T4400 to a T9300(2.8ghz) or E8235(2.5ghz) m6 cache, thanks for your comment. just thought, if I change the CPU will I need to register windows again win7 ?
Great video, but just wondering how did you reinstall Windows?
good video I up graded a few laptops for freinds before by putting in more memory and a ssd and I restored their system on the ssd using acronis and external hdd they was so happy. I seen my name in your list woohoo
Thanks for the support.
Thank you. Sounds like my wife’s laptop. What a lot when the system section of a mechanical drive is 38% fragmented. It can’t be defraged
not good
Good video as always just one problem. as it doesn't really show how tospeed up a lap top it only shows how toupgrade specific parts of a lap top. How about how to speed up a lap top when you can't afford to add or upgrade anything! Take for example like a cheap HP notebook 15 an do a benchmark, then optimize it manually an then take another benchmark so we can see the performance difference!
Great video as always. Upgrade the cpu as long as you have that option and the laptop will be open. Saves head ache and will improve the laptop. Also cheap as h*ll.
The hardest part of an upgrade is usually transferring the operating system and license.
You can tell the difference when an engineer puts in screws - they put them all in loose then tighten them up - that way all the screw holes align properly.
The hardest part of an upgrade is usually transferring the operating system and license.
Macrium Reflect Free, quick, simple, reliable.
THE LICENSE YOU CAN CHECK IN THE CMD
Can you let us know the best way to get the contents of the old mechanical drive onto the new SSD.
Good on you 👍
Thanks 👍
I think you can further improve it by changing the Os to a lighter one like Linux
Have you cloned the hdd into the ssd? If yes what type of software did you use? Macrium Reflect, Acronia True Image...?
My dell laptop keeps it's 100@% disk usage all the time
i tried multiple ways to fix but after sometime it back to 100% 😭
So,i just installed the POP OS(Linux) and my pc running amazingly fast 😇👍
It has HDD btw but fast and smooth
I m happy 🤗
"Old Vaio's never die"! haha, everlasting.
" -Goonies- never say die!" ~~ Vaio
Add a SSD and run ccleaner. Job done.
Thank video
Thank you too!
I just installed chrome OS and it works really well for my old laptop with Intel celeron, limited ram and storage
But looking at Task Manager Chrome uses an awful lot of memory.
@@vanessawindust4016 I'm assuming you mean chrome the browser. ChromeOS is a very light operating system. Think about it as rooting your android and installing a light weight custom ROM. The entire OS uses less RAM which makes things snappier and in my case I gave the laptop to my mum and she's only going to use it to browse the internet and for that it's perfect
My old T60 is going to love me sooon
You can also put a much better wifi/bluetooth card into your laptop improving the speed and signal and also giving your old laptop bluetooth.
Cheers Garry
I have a laptop from 2016, i5, 8 RAM, and it feels sooooo slow now. Even after a Windows reset, and after disabling so many useless stuff
It was even considered a gaming laptop at the time, and it ran games smoothly. But now it takes ages for any task. Why is that??
Get a SSD
@@CoMmAnDrX but does hdds get slow over the years or something?
@@DucksAreEpic No it is mostly windows produced junk which slow it down. Linux dont have this problem.
@@DucksAreEpic They can but I see it more an issue with Win 10 that pounds the mech drive.
pretty awesome
Glad you think so!
Is it possible 2 upgrade a laptop with windows vista on it to windows 10/11?
What would you suggest I do my SSD is now full and I'm not sure what I should do I've got lots of pictures on the computer which is around 10 years old the SSD is 250 I think which replaced the old mechanical one if you could give me any suggestions I would appreciate it thank you I enjoy your videos
back the pics up to an external hard drive...
@@WillyEckaslike thanks for that advice
You could think about getting a Framework laptop. You can upgrade different parts of it as time goes on.
@@PaulHoyle777 thanks for the advice
Do you use Windows? If your machine is very old (2014 or earlier), I recommend buying a new PC or making hardware upgrades. If your machine is relatively newer (from 2015 onwards), the slowness may be easily explained by low-performance components, and the only solution is to upgrade the hardware. Now, if you have a low-performance laptop (like me) and cannot afford a new PC, I suggest switching to a Linux version optimized for low-performance devices.
THANKS FOR ALL
It would make much more sense to simply clone the Hard Drive to the SSD, rather than reinstalling Windows, then having to re-download all . Also, many older computers are limited to the capacity of RAM you can install.
I recently cloned and installed an SSD into a 12 year old desktop PC. Start-up is MUCH faster and it was a worthwhile upgrade. Unfortunately, 4 GM RAM is installed, and it won't support more RAM. Nevertheless, it does what iI want it to do - WiFi streaming videos into my flat panel TV.
My laptop is NOT slow but I like to watch pc/tech videos :D
Thanks
Consider a Linux distro. I have Ubuntu on a laptop from the same era. It has a SSD and only 4gb ram and it FLIES.
In the USA we throw this away and spend less on a New one from WalMart. Even Low End is faster than Old with a Make-over.
I have SSD Thanks but I like it.
I missed the bit about loading windows 10/onto the ssd. How do we do that please?
Well, you can clone your old hard disk onto the new SSD, or you can make a backup of your data, clean-install Windows 10 and restore the backup. Really, the choice is yours.
Normaly a program follows with the ssd and a cable to transfer the windows 10 from old HD to SSd.
i put in 250gb ssd in my t410 8gb ram it helps a lot
Better than a mechanical drive
Got to love early comments. Makes it easy to see who hasn't watched the video
Yeah, just bots
Does anyone know why Toshiba stopped making Laptops? They were of very high quality last I remember
Not sure why
@@Britec09 Maybe they were secretly installed with anime porn and people were outraged.
They restarted Satelilites with Dynabook in 2016. Don't know what is behind it.
i had old slow hp laptop had a 500GB HDD and low RAM, i will upgrade hdd to ssd and i will install windows 10 on new 500GB ssd
Wow
can i upgrade GeForce RTX 20 Series Graphics Cards with an old laptop ?
Sorry but I don't think this would help in most cases. I have an Acer from 2009 that I added ram and a SSD to some years ago. I put in a Crucial sata 3 SSD and it still runs about the same as with the mechanical drive since the interface is still sata1. I also swapped out two 2gb sticks of ram for two 4gb and I had to update the bios to recognize them. I think your system ran faster from reinstalling Windows and the extra ram.
4GB is not enough for Windows 10 and a SSD is a lot faster than a mechanical drive
The next question is ? If you were stuck with that lap top as your only pc an could not upgrade it how would you still manage to make it faster?
you can't, just buy a new one
Don't you want two dual channel memory sticks?
I have a question pls answer.
I have a laptop i3 with 1tb hard drive. I can add one extra ssd into that.
question is : - where should I install my games after installing windows on ssd.
If I install my games on hard drive even after ssd , will they run slow?
Will games use my ssd to run ? if I install them on hard drive. Or I have to installed them on C drive in ssd?
Pls answer someone I am confused about this thing.
depends on the make and model
@@Britec09 I have hp notebook 15-da 0434tx , It has i3 with 1tb hard disk.
I can insert a caddy with ssd in place of dvd drive.
please solve my doubt , I am not buying ssd for a long time coz of this confusion.
Hard disk drives are only good 4 music, and ssd's are only good 4 programs
I know why mine is slow it has a crappy AMD processor
lol
I upgraded my mum's laptop from celeron b800 to i7 2670qm 8gb of ram win 11 and ssd
Yeah, they work a treat.
@@Britec09 I don't understand what you wanted to say 😁
@@domenvalentinuzzi Work a treat is an English expression that means something works very well.
@@williamjackson5942 aha ok ;) now i got it
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SSD!
Yes sir
I need this
Cool
Whats new in this??
just slap linux on it :D:D:D:D
Second