re: a problem with win 10 been very slow

This is a Toshiba Satellite L455-S5000, OS Win 10 home 32bit. The Toshiba laptop is a bit older then my Gateway (my primary laptop). I keep the Toshiba around in case something happens to the gateway. If the Gateway goes down, I still have a way to get on line.

Anyways the Toshiba is been very, overall sluggish, to the point that internet searches on Firefox stall out, programs just flat out stop working and have to be restarted, the mouse freezes and so on. Short of wiping the partition and reinstalling everything, I don't know what to do.

Also When I try to run the 32bit version of Ultimaker Cura on the Toshiba I get the following error message "could not initalize OpenGL. This program requires OpenGL 2.0 or higher" Then the program shuts down. The 64bit version works fine on the Gateway running Win 64bit.

PS: the Toshiba has a 500gb HDD and 8gb's of memory.

1. I forgot about the fact the 32bit only sees 4gb of ram.

2. I have been running 32bit because of certain ham radio digital decoding programs that I use only work on 32bit, the programs won't run on 64bit.

spunk said:

You are running a laptop with 8 GB of RAM on a 32 bit Windows OS. 32 Bit Windows only supports a maximum of 4 GB of RAM, Adding another 4 GB of RAM is wasted because the OS can't see it. Only 64 bit OS's can use more the 4 GB of RAM.
Considering the age of the Toshiba Laptop, the HDD is probably in the beginning stages of failure.
You can test this theory by downloading Disk Genius in my signature. Select your disk, go to the Toolbar to
Disk/View SMART Information. This will give you a quick snapshot of the health of the drive. If you get a Warning message, that confirms the drive is beginning to fail. It will have some life left in it but not for long. You can also go to View or Repair Bad Sectors/Start Verify. This will take considerably longer but will show you all of the Bad Sectors you have. If so, then you should replace the drive with an SSD drive and reinstall Windows 10 64 Bit.

32 bits software normally runs very well on Windows 64 bits.

You should test your drive.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

BTW I am trying to get the prog Ultimaker Cura for 3D printers working on the Toshiba and I keep getting an "OpenGL" error message then I have to hit Ctrl > Alt > Del to shut down the prog. I will let u know the results of the chkdsk c: /f exam.

Megahertz said:

32 bits software normally runs very well on Windows 64 bits.

You should test your drive.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
chkdsk c: /f
It will say your disk is in use and ask if you want to schedule to next start = yes
Restart
Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc

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I ran "chkdsk c: /f" the "Pay attention on the results, specially bad blocks, bad clusters, bad sectors etc" never came up after the restart.

Read Chkdsk Log in Event Viewer in Windows 10 using this you will find the results

I am looking at the Event Viewer but I can't find the Chkdsk log

steve108 said:

Read Chkdsk Log in Event Viewer in Windows 10 using this you will find the results