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We have a "family" PC that is used for email and web only, but seems to be very slow. This is particularly so when it has just been woken from sleep; it behaves like a bad-tempered teenager in the morning, sulking and refusing to answer any questions... ie it takes ages to get anything started. Just now I woke it in order to find some configuration details, and it was 3 or 4 minutes before I could get Settings loaded to see what I needed. This also happens when I need to turn it off at night. I believe there are other aspects of "slow" but none I can report directly.
Although it is old (2012), it doesn't seem to me to be too badly specced:
Dell Inspiron 620ST
Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.3 GHz, 3 MB
ST2320L screen (VGA, DVI, HDMI)
AMD Radeon HD6450 1GB DDR3 graphics
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA drive
8 GB memory (original spec was for 4 GB; not sure when it was upgraded)
Dell keyboard and mouse
DVD +/- RW drive, SD card reader
Slim tower
Bought with Win 7 but now running Win 10 64-bit
Settings suggests the disk has 916 GB capacity of which 665 GB is free and 251 GB used. Crashplan reports it's backing up 164 GB, so I guess 85 GB or thereabouts is "system". It's running Kaspersky Internet Security.
Now this doesn't bother me too much as my mid 2014 MacBook Pro still seems to be in reasonable shape (apart from the screen damaged by "stain-gate"). However SWMBO is getting rather annoyed, and suggests I should spend less on That Photography Stuff and more on sorting it out!
However, I thought it might be good idea to ask on here first. The questions I thought of include:
a) Is there any obvious weak point here that could be simply upgraded?
b) any tests I could do for problems that could be causing it to be slow?
c) If hardware changes are needed, would it be better to go for upgraded bits (maybe through a local computer place), or a new system?
I did look on Dell's online shop site (which seems to have a completely broken system for declining non-essential cookies, not to mention a fairly useless twitter response unit), and 16 GB systems seem few and far between, and very expensive (I have this general idea that more memory is better!). The shop seems to have become much more "take it or leave it", without the options from before where I could pick uprgades like more memory, different drives etc. On that basis, I left it.
I have read through the New PC Help thread several times, but the OP there is looking for something for photo editing, which isn't needed in this case.
So, any ideas?
Although it is old (2012), it doesn't seem to me to be too badly specced:
Dell Inspiron 620ST
Intel Core i3-2120 @ 3.3 GHz, 3 MB
ST2320L screen (VGA, DVI, HDMI)
AMD Radeon HD6450 1GB DDR3 graphics
1 TB 7200 rpm SATA drive
8 GB memory (original spec was for 4 GB; not sure when it was upgraded)
Dell keyboard and mouse
DVD +/- RW drive, SD card reader
Slim tower
Bought with Win 7 but now running Win 10 64-bit
Settings suggests the disk has 916 GB capacity of which 665 GB is free and 251 GB used. Crashplan reports it's backing up 164 GB, so I guess 85 GB or thereabouts is "system". It's running Kaspersky Internet Security.
Now this doesn't bother me too much as my mid 2014 MacBook Pro still seems to be in reasonable shape (apart from the screen damaged by "stain-gate"). However SWMBO is getting rather annoyed, and suggests I should spend less on That Photography Stuff and more on sorting it out!
However, I thought it might be good idea to ask on here first. The questions I thought of include:
a) Is there any obvious weak point here that could be simply upgraded?
b) any tests I could do for problems that could be causing it to be slow?
c) If hardware changes are needed, would it be better to go for upgraded bits (maybe through a local computer place), or a new system?
I did look on Dell's online shop site (which seems to have a completely broken system for declining non-essential cookies, not to mention a fairly useless twitter response unit), and 16 GB systems seem few and far between, and very expensive (I have this general idea that more memory is better!). The shop seems to have become much more "take it or leave it", without the options from before where I could pick uprgades like more memory, different drives etc. On that basis, I left it.
I have read through the New PC Help thread several times, but the OP there is looking for something for photo editing, which isn't needed in this case.
So, any ideas?