HP Pavilion Desktop - Used for Photo Editing - Slow Performance

As you all know or some may not know, I don't know. But I use my HP Pavilion Desktop as my photo editing device. This computer has 16 GB of installed RAM (Memory), a 500 GB SSD for the Windows 10 OS, and a 1TB HDD for storage. It is supposed to have a lot of power with plenty of speed. But as of late, it hasn't been doing so well. I have noticed a tremendous amount of slow downs from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Does anyone know how I can fix the performance of it? I am photographing a Wedding next weekend and I really need it to have plenty of good performance for photo editing afterwards. Does anyone know of any programs that will increase the slow performance?

Windows 10 Version 21H1

I have a very old HP Pavilion - about 10 years old. It started to get like this, but has improved no end with a clean install. I have a 1tb SSD which is half full. I believe SSD's when they start to get to a certain level of "fullness" can slow down. Which is partly why I got the 1tb one when I was on 400gb of files. Needed it anyway as I'm now on 500GB.

Is it just Lightroom that is slowing down? You probably won't have time for a clean install and drive upgrade. But maybe swapping out the HDD for another SSD would improve things.

Or uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom? I also uninstall One Drive as that can really slow things down - as can a big windows update running in the background.

Hazel123 said:

I have a very old HP Pavilion - about 10 years old. It started to get like this, but has improved no end with a clean install. I have a 1tb SSD which is half full. I believe SSD's when they start to get to a certain level of "fullness" can slow down. Which is partly why I got the 1tb one when I was on 400gb of files. Needed it anyway as I'm now on 500GB.

Is it just Lightroom that is slowing down? You probably won't have time for a clean install and drive upgrade. But maybe swapping out the HDD for another SSD would improve things.

Or uninstalling and reinstalling Lightroom? I also uninstall One Drive as that can really slow things down - as can a big windows update running in the background.

@Hazel123, a Clean Install may be the best route. I don't know. It just seems sluggish all around, but Lightroom is where it gets worse. At this time, I cannot buy another SSD.

You may have a lot of programs running on the background or even an upgrade on the way.
Try a clean boot and see if it gets faster.
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Hi jesse might be worth looking at this adobe link on speeding up lightroom too Optimize Lightroom performance might be somthing helpful there to help

Jesse Williams said:

@Hazel123, a Clean Install may be the best route. I don't know. It just seems sluggish all around, but Lightroom is where it gets worse. At this time, I cannot buy another SSD.

I'm using Capture One Pro and cyberlink powerdirector on my ancient HP laptop (Core i5). Both big programs and no slowing at all. I have had issues with things starting to get laggy generally but usually resolved by a clean install

Sorry guys for the late reply. It seems to have cleared up with the latest updates.

Funnily enough after saying how zippy mine was after a clean install, it got incredibly slow and laggy - did my head in for a whole evening. It turned out to be a very big windows update - took a long time to download, slowed everything to an unusable speed and spent a very long time installing. After that things were still a bit iffy. But by next day it was back to normal.

So maybe you had a big update.