Toshiba Satellite P500 performing poorly in windows 7

Bing Bai

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I have a satellite P500, Model No. PSPE8C-026006 for 3 years. Core 2 Quad Q9000 @ 2.00 GHz, 2.00 Ghz, 6 GB Ram, 1TB HD.64 bits windows 7 OS. Even though it's 3 yr old, it's still decent Spec
This laptop is preforming really slugging from brand new. It took 10 mins to boot up, and load all the start-up program. I understood there are a lot of Toshiba preload programs. I disabled a lot of them, situation is not improving. Later on, I reformatted the laptop, and reinstall window 7, didn’t install any Toshiba programs, situation is still not improving.
Once started. It's quite slow to open any applications. It preforms like memory is not enough, like running latest Windows on a really old computer. Sometimes, it randomly freezes for a few seconds while watch videos or playing games.
alot of times windows 7 freezes while I am downloading. I have to force shutdown, then restarted the computer. check with Microsoft, stil couldn't determine if this is a software or hardware issue.
we have another laptop with much less specs (Core 2 duo @1.5 Ghz, 3 GB ram). did comparison on exact same scenario. running much quicker and smooth than P500. Both laptops have exact version windows 7 home on. Things just not adding up
I have tried to reformat the HD, reinstall the windows 7, upgrade BIOS, and delete any program on system star up. Nothing is really effective. Please help
 

Bing Bai

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Aug 5, 2013
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Much appreciate your quick response, is there any Windows tool or 3rd party software to detect HDD failure? or is there any tweak I can do in BIOS?