Originally Posted by
allset2travel
Do you care to share how to clean your laptop. During the last 3 months, I watched my "once very fast" desktop getting sloooooower and slower! I tried a few obvious things such as disable certain "startup" apps and "services". So far to no avail. Sometimes it ran so slowly that I could not even do work on Excel or Word, not to mention Adobe Photoshop! All my HDD and SS disk do not need defrag.
Any help will be appreciated! TIA.
You shouldn't have to do it in this day and age... but try re-installing Windows.
Is Windows installed on the SSD? And all the main apps you use? If anything is installed on the HDD, that would slow things down considerably.
Also check for any Malware.
What security / virus checker do you use? One of the machines I upgraded was running like a dog. I found that it had Norton 360 on it, but it had expired. So, the owner had installed AVG free as well. Removing both made things run a lot better. I then installed BitDefender for them, and this didn't have too much impact (and this was moot when I installed the SSD).