Slow Laptop can any one help

[Andyrg@ ClioTurbo]

Hi Guys.

My wife got me a HP Envy Dv7 Laptop for Xmas, with Beats Audio. and i am very very disapointed in how slow the thing is and how oftern the thing freezes.

It has 8Gb Ram
Intel Core i7 2.4Ghz
1TB HDD
Windows 8

can any one help me, i have Office Installed and thats about it, i tend not to use it as it takes that long to load things up. My Laptop tht i got 10 Years back with XP on is 100% faster than this thing

Andy

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

It will be all of the bundled software etc. If you install http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx I can remotely sort it out for you!

 

[The Fatty]

Remove bloatware. Remove Norton. Job done.

ps. the HP Envy series is a really good range of laptops. Really it shouldn't be going slow out of the box tbh.

 

[Carlv8415]

Remove windows 8 and install 7! Job done. But like people said it more than likely full of bloat ware, go through uninstalling stuff you never use.

 

[The Fatty]

FYI windows 8 loads faster then 7.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

I can guarantee there will be a load of crap that runs on start up (msconfig)

 

[Chi]

Bought a new PC for the office and it has an SSD hard drive, wow I love it, best invention since.. It's really good..

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

I can guarantee there will be a load of crap that runs on start up (msconfig)

Yeah... just delete system 32 and it will be loads faster!!!

 

[Rob]

Windows 8 is painful, I had to install some sort 3rd party dodgy software to give it a proper functioning start bar and bypass that BS window at the start. Mental.

I'd personally install windows 7.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

Yeah... just delete system 32 and it will be loads faster!!!

Clear the BCD as well!!!!!!

My first post is serious.

 

[JaredHasNoBrain]

Clear the BCD as well!!!!!!

My first post is serious.

I know, Probably would've come across better if I put a wink on the end haha!

 

[Sir_Dave]

Use firefox to look at p**n, saves you getting all sorts of nasty pc-aids which slows everything down.

 

[ThomasBrentnall]

I know, Probably would've come across better if I put a wink on the end haha!

Haha yeah

 

[Carlv8415]

Yeah... just delete system 32 and it will be loads faster!!!

PAHAHA!!!!

 

[Andyrg@ ClioTurbo]

Thanks boys I'll be in touch

 

[Uncle_Gravy]

Yeah its a HP, Its full of crap, uninstall it all, as someone mentioned, msconfig and stop other crap that doesn't need starting on startup.

If it has god awful Norton on it, remove asap, It just kills the performance of any machine and replace with another AV such as avast or what ever you prefer.

 

[Scottydog]

As others have said, remove all of the out of box bloatware installed on the laptop and and I would personally recommend removing all anti-virus software and just use the new Windows Defender (update it if necessary) which comes with Windows 8. It is installed as default and very good at working with the other security features in W8 like Windows Firewall. Windows Defender is very similar to Microsoft Forefront Protection which we use at work as our AV with no problems in the past 2 years of using it. Plus I use W8 with Windows Defender on my personal PC without a hitch for the past 7 months or so.

Also, see what programs are running at startup (which iirc is now located on Task Manager on W8) and disable any programs which you don't need.

May also be good to run CCleaner after doing all that to remove any remnants of unneeded data. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

Hope that helps

 

[Gray]

Thanks boys I'll be in touch

Give me a shout, I'll sort it