I am very frustrated with Windows 8. I upgraded my Dell laptop the weekend it came out and performance on my laptop has slowly degraded. Now I'm too the point where my computer is so slow, it just won't work. Reboots take forever. 10-15 minutes from startup until I can login. Another 10-15 minutes before the Desktop is up. But still, apps won't launch. When I can launch the Task Manager, it says my hard drive is at 100% utilization, even though I have not launched any apps. I went through and removed unneccesary items from the startup menu. My computer is a couple years old, but I was under the impression that if the computer ran Win7, it could run Win8. My computer has an Intel Centrino 2 processor with 8GB RAM.
Any ideas on what could be causing my slowness?
How do I go about doing a reinstall of the OS? When I originally upgraded, I selected the "Bring Nothing Over" option.
Any ideas on what could be causing my slowness?
How do I go about doing a reinstall of the OS? When I originally upgraded, I selected the "Bring Nothing Over" option.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Studio 15 (PP39L)
- Memory
- 8GB