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Acer Aspire Win 10
I’ve disabled most of the startup programs, I added 8GB of RAM (total of 12 GB now), I tweaked Google Chrome (something about acceleration), and it’s *better*, but still not as nimble as it used to be.
Any suggestions?
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And the screen will sometimes go black, lag, and (after several minutes), come back.
It reveals what's inside and sometimes finds it.
How is at https://www.piriform.com/docs/speccy/using-speccy/publishing-a-speccy-profile-to-the-web
If this report finds the issue I assume I’ll be able to gonfrom there....assuming I’ll understand what I’ll see in the 1st place!
With some experience you read it from top to bottom looking for issues.
Another test I'm starting to use is Userbenchmark when I suspect a part like the HDD or other turning in low performance.
Between those two we usually have good insight the the machine and its setup.
Right- this is where the problem is with me. Little experience here.
Should I copy/paste results here?
If you paste it then all the layout is gone and it's in a format hard to read. Since I do this a lot I don't read it if the report is pasted. If the link to the report is shared, then I read it.
1. That HDD shows a few odd things.
a. Smart value G-sense error rate has a count like someone is carrying and maybe dropping the laptop while power is on. That's not good. Talk to the owner.
b. Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate is high for such a new drive.
I worry the laptop is being moved while it's powered up. You can get away with some movement but when you see this, you talk about it. Maybe have the drive replaced with SSD?
2. https://www.google.com/search?q=i3+6100U+boot+times finds this sort of model is expected to have long boot times. You can reduce this by changing the HDD to SSD.
3. Avast. Nice but it can be doing boot scans. Change back to Defender and test.
4. There are many W10 updates pending. Until those work out, you often find the machine to be slow.
I usually try the above as well as click the start button to see if there is an Update and Shutdown or Update and Restart to speed things along.
Given item 1 I'd also consider running CHKDSK C: /F /R /X when you have a night you can let it do its work.
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