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My Dell Laptop Inspiron 8200 is too slow.

I have done everything that is the usual methods to speed it up to no avail.

It has a 1.8 Gig Processor, 1 Gig of Ram. 40 Gig Hard Drive and all the trimmings.

If anyone has experienced this, and figured out how to bring the speed up to normal, please let me know what you did.

Cheers and good health to you all,

Tony

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As observed, software tweaks can only go so far; and while 's pointer to cleanup tools helps for quick wins, the next step is to find the actual bottleneck before trying more patches. The most reliable diagnostics are simple hardware checks and a clean OS test environment.

Try this concise troubleshooting sequence:

  • Check the hard drive's health with a SMART viewer such as CrystalDiskInfo. Any nonzero reallocated or pending sector counts mean the drive needs attention.
  • Measure raw disk speed with a benchmark like CrystalDiskMark. Very low MB/s on reads/writes indicates the HDD is the likely bottleneck.
  • Boot a clean environment from a USB live distro (for example, Lubuntu) to compare responsiveness outside the installed OS. If the system is still sluggish, hardware is almost certainly the issue.
  • If the drive is failing or very slow, clone and replace it (backup first). Use a cloning tool such as Clonezilla, confirm the laptop's drive interface (IDE/PATA vs SATA) and physical thickness before buying a replacement, then swap and reinstall drivers/OS as needed.
  • Also inspect cooling (clean fans, check thermal paste) and consider a clean OS reinstall or a lightweight OS if replacing hardware is not an option.

Always back up data before cloning or flashing firmware. Update BIOS only when the vendor notes a fix for a confirmed problem.

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There comes a time, like with me, when the processor itself is the cause of slow running. The best you can do to tune what you've got is:
1/
At least 1GB RAM (you've got this)

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Remove desktop documents & programs leaving only links to them

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Cleaning out your Registry, removing orphans and other dead ends that are checked at boot time

4/
Clearing out programs in Startup that you never use

5/
Ensuring you have nothing trojan running to consume CPU

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very good program to do a lot of the thing to clean and fix performance of you PC,.and it has a free version
http://www.iobit.com/

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