HP Desktop is a lot slower than usual...

Have you checked the SMART data yet?

Hi there
@Jesse Williams

Unless you are overloading the system (running too many apps concurrently) I suspect the biggest cause here is slow HDD's. My experience is with poor computer performance over the years is around 90% caused by poor I/O systems -- slow disks, full disks, OS and data all in the same large partition etc etc.

Remove everything off HDD's that you don't need to have online, make sure that the OS is in its own partition and above all swap HDD's for SSD's -- SSD's are cheap now and strangely enough you'd probably see a far better performance gain on a lower end system than a faster one (although all systems will benefit a lot).

Cheers
jimbo

Jimbo is right. Disk drives are the common bottleneck. An SSD eliminates that bottleneck.

After buying a desktop with an M2 SSD I became convinced that HDDs are for backup only.

mngerhold said:

Have you checked the SMART data yet?

Yes. Everything checked out okay.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there
@Jesse Williams

Unless you are overloading the system (running too many apps concurrently) I suspect the biggest cause here is slow HDD's. My experience is with poor computer performance over the years is around 90% caused by poor I/O systems -- slow disks, full disks, OS and data all in the same large partition etc etc.

Remove everything off HDD's that you don't need to have online, make sure that the OS is in its own partition and above all swap HDD's for SSD's -- SSD's are cheap now and strangely enough you'd probably see a far better performance gain on a lower end system than a faster one (although all systems will benefit a lot).

Cheers
jimbo

@jimbo45, that shouldn't be the issue. My storage space looks good. This computer has not been clean installed however. It is still running the stuff out of the box. I was told not to do a clean install, since the computer was a big gift for me because I may lose all of the factory stuff that came with it. I dont care about the bloatware. But I do want to keep my recovery partitions intact. I am afraid if I do a clean install, I will lose my recovery partitions.

margrave55 said:

Jimbo is right. Disk drives are the common bottleneck. An SSD eliminates that bottleneck.

After buying a desktop with an M2 SSD I became convinced that HDDs are for backup only.

I would have to save up so money to purchase an SSD. 16 GB of RAM is my next thing to do to it.

I am starting to thing there is a conflict somewhere with one of my programs installed on my computer and my mom's computer. Microsoft fixed my HP. Now, the same thing is happening to my mom's Acer. It won't update or download any apps. It acts as if it is frozen and buggy.

Hi there
just try an SSD -- even the "slower" (and that's relative) kingston 256GB ones can be had for around 20 EUR -- I've used Windows ever since Windows 3.11 and that's a long time ago. It doesn't matter how much free space an HDD has if it's "SLOOOOOOOOOOOW" and has a small cache.

I would almost bet you a zillion dollars to a bucket of "The Brown stuff" that just swapping any HDD for even a "slow" SSD will immediately make a significant improvement on pretty well any Windows computer. (Or any other OS running).

I can't think of anybody who has ever installed an SSD who has posted --this is no good --I'm going back to my HDD. !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

Where can I find a good 1TB SSD at a reasonable price? Crucial has one, but it’s too high for my budget right now.

There is some firmware updates for the current hard drive on this computer? Should I download the latest firmware? Because it’s still acting choppy as if the hard drive is acting up.