Old laptop with poor performance. Can something be done?

- Install a SSD
- If you have a Win 7 license, upgrade to Win 7 32 bits or install a light Linux 32 bits (Lubuntu, Puppy Linux)

jbcarreon123 said:

oh. that's an problem. Well, the chipset doesn't work with 8gb of ram, so consider upgrading the frequency to 800mhz or 1333mhz

The bus speed of the Intel Core 2 Duo T5750 CPU is limited to 667MHz.
Intel(R) Core™2 Duo Processor T5750 (2M Cache, 2.00 GHz, 667 MHz FSB) Product Specifications

I still have a laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo Centrino2 T5800 CPU. I decommissioned this laptop 9 whole years ago in spite of the fact its bus speed is actually 800MHz. The reason why I did that? Simple. The new laptop that I got to replace it back then (just a few days after Windows 8 came out) has an Intel Core i3-3220 (Ivy Bridge) CPU, which is just so much faster in comparison, the 399 Euros that I spent on this new laptop could in fact be earned back faster by washing cars and mowing lawns than the time it took for the old one to load some modern websites the functionality of which would break if you tried to disable their scripts. Decommissioned it, too, within less than 3 years after I got it. I got another new laptop with an Intel Core i5-4210U (Haswell) CPU after that. Decommissioned it over 3 years ago. And another new one that's in my specs (2nd PC), and another (1st PC). Laptop museum. Maybe after this pandemic I could start asking for entrance fees so that I can then upgrade my Tiger Lake-U to 128GB RAM... or not.

jbcarreon123 said:

My PC currently is an Core i3 2100 (Sandy Bridge) with 4gbs of ram and an hard drive. MY pc is really snappy. It is good even in the specs.

Last month I also decommissioned a desktop PC that was bought 8 years and a half ago, Intel Core i5-3350P (Quad core @ 3.1GHz-3.3GHz) w/ 4GB DDR3 @ 1600MHz. It actually even has a nice GeForce GTX 650 1GB.

dalchina said:

*** you need to investigate this- something's wrong.
Compare that with how it is after a clean boot.
Inspect your task manager- which processes are using the CPU heavily?
Look for under 5% when idle.

I will rephrase and ask a longer question.
Have you changed this?

I was assuming you knew what a page file and paging is.

It is only worth checking this next once you have idle CPU usage under control.
100% isn't a rate.
I will rephrase for you with an example and a specific question:
What is the numeric transfer rate you see - in MB/s?

Thank you dalchina!

I checked the CPU again and found that one streaming software was using more CPU than expected. In addition I was accessing the laptop using a remote desktop software that used more than 50% alone. After a restart, and no programs started it runs at about 8% CPU usage.

I've not changed the page file. It is currently set to Start 6000 MB and Maximum 12000 MB. My HDD has a a lot of free space. Should I adjust this? Free HDD space is really not needed on this computer.

I see what you mean on the transfer rate. I had a bunch of files about 150 MB in size that I transfered to another folder in less than a sec. It seem to be fairly fast. I do not have any larger files on this computer that I am aware of...

AndreTen said:

Asked you before... can you please check processor speed and post back readings, or picture

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Hello Andre, Processor Speed is set at 2 GHz.