On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:32:52 +0000
Stormin' Norman wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:07:33 -0500, Johnny wrote:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 14:10:54 -0600
Ken1943 wrote:

On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:02:18 -0500, Johnny
wrote:

On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 15:56:14 +0000
Stormin' Norman wrote:

Are you making this change to increase the speed or because you
need more room?

If you have plenty of free space on the existing drive and are
primarily looking to increase speed, have you considered a solid
state drive? They are lighting fast and somewhat reasonable in
price. If you need more than 500GB, the SSDs get a little
pricey.

It's strictly for speed. Windows 8.1 is very slow on that
computer.

An SSD is something to think about.

Like I said I don't know anything about laptops. I just want to
make sure the drive I order will fit in her computer. Are they
all physically the same?

It is very slow in comparison to what. I have 8.1 on this laptop, a
1.4 gig / 4gig ram and it is slow in comparison to my 3.5 gig cpu\8
gig ram. Much faster than my 1.6gig netbooks.

What does your wife do with the laptop besides shopping ?


KenW

It's slow compared to the computer that I had Windows 7 on for a few
years. That computer had one CPU 2.7 GHz, 2 GB of Ram. I now have
Linux Mint on it, and it's super fast compared to this computer. The
computer is an HP Compaq that I bought new in 2009.

When I say slow, I mean when I click on Control Panel, it takes 10
seconds for it to open. I just have to watch this little spinning
wheel until it opens. Same with File Explorer or anything else.


Have you checked your administrative error logs to see if you are
generating a lot of DISK or other errors?

There were five errors in the last 7 days. Four about Microsoft Store
licenses failing to sync, and one about Dell, and exception errors.