Why is my brand new Dell laptop so slow?

[RR4Life]

I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 laptop from my local Currys. I've loaded all the programs I need on it, and in total I am only using 111GB of the 1TB hard drive. The machine itself has a 1TB hard drive, 8GB of RAM, an Intel Pentium processor, and about 7 hours of battery life. So my question is, why is it still so slow? It takes about 15 minutes for the whole machine to load, and for the first hour or so of use it takes a while to do anything. Once it's got into the swing of things, it then begins to work better. I am unable to put an SSD in it yet because I know that will void the warranty. Is there anything I can do to make it work faster?

 

[sizzling]

Under task manager are any programs taking up 100% usage of the CPU/HDD/ram? What's the CPU temp? When did this start, was it from new or after software you installed?

 

[USAFRet]

What other bloatware was installed from the factory? Usually, that is the case.
Multiple different AV, 'PC Health', or other scanner type things run on startup. Competing with each other, they bring the system to its knees before they are done.

And yes, I've seen it take an hour or more to finally settle down.

Remove all that crap, or a clean install, and it will feel like a whole new PC.

 

[RR4Life]

Under task manager are any programs taking up 100% usage of the CPU/HDD/ram? What's the CPU temp? When did this start, was it from new or after software you installed?

Hi there,

There isn't anything that is using 100% of anything at the moment. The problem did occur a few days after I bought the laptop, and since it's brand new I didn't think there would be anything wrong with it! It's a good laptop apart from the slow startup time.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there RR4Life,

It will not hurt to check your drive's health status out: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
If there's something wrong with it, just back up the data.

Apart from that, I would agree with USAFRet. You can consider performing a clean OS install.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD