Laptop Unbearably Slow

[savataro]

Hello,
I recently reinstalled my OS (for the billionth time) and after using the laptop for a day or two (mainly playing ONE game and browsing), after I turned it on, it had become unbearably slow- it takes about 10-20 minutes for it to boot, after which +5 minutes after you click on something, because it becomes irresponsive, freezes and eventually does nothing...it took 5 minutes for the pc to respond to right-clickimg a desktop icon and about twice as much to open up Task Manager...tried opening the start menu, no success... The only thing I've done with the hardware is swapping a 4gb ram module with 1x8gb one, but I doubt this is the case, since I had no problem with it when I firstly installed it...I also reinstalled the OS, which didn't give any results...ran the Windows Memory diagnostic tool, I was given no errors, same goes after executing the 'chkdsk c:' command...

 

[firo40]

what model of laptop this and how long have you been using it for, it could just be general hardware failure of the laptop motherboard. Laptops are very fragile and can damage pretty easy

 

[savataro]

what model of laptop this and how long have you been using it for, it could just be general hardware failure of the laptop motherboard. Laptops are very fragile and can damage pretty easy

It's a lenovo y510p...it's more than two years now...it has had a number of problems now, including one of the RAM slots not working at all, but I still need it working for another month or so... I just saw that after a big amount of time (from about since I wrote the original thread until this post of mine), the laptop works relatively well for a while... even though everything crashes in a certain moment...

 

[firo40]

Does it get extremely hot when it starts to crash and get unbearably slow?

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

Do you have the same problem on Windows Vista or 7 or 8?

 

[savataro]

Does it get extremely hot when it starts to crash and get unbearably slow?

Nope, wouldn't say so... Task manager shows low CPU and RAM usage, but high Disk usage most of the time, but it's been usual...

 

[savataro]

Haven't had such a problem with Windows 8.1, which was preinstalled on the laptop...I make clean installs of Win 10 every time. It also gives me "Scanning and repairing drive (\\?\Volume{*stuff here*})"... It even gives me a hard time opening File Explorer (about 10 minutes, excluding the time it freezes and stops responding)

 

[Rafael Mestdag]

You say you need the laptop for a short while. Why don't you stick with 8.1 until you're able to get another one?

 

[savataro]

You say you need the laptop for a short while. Why don't you stick with 8.1 until you're able to get another one?

I'm not sure if I want to go through the downgrading process, especially after clean installing 10...thus, I'd like to use it later on, it just won't be my primary pc

 

[savataro]

Could it be from the RAM? I ran a test and had no errors, thus it was working well with it for a while, but...could it be?