On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 20:55:02 +0000
Bill wrote:

In message 20150309153755.442fe007@jspc, Johnny
writes
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 20:24:54 +0000
Bill wrote:

In message 20150309112330.2f038634@jspc, Johnny
writes
The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 15-3531.

I see that that model comes with Windows 8.1 with Bing. Does this
mean it is a WimBoot machine having to decompress Windows on the
fly?

If it is, that would explain slowness with a 5400rpm drive. If it
isn't I'd check whether it is really just the drive that is making
it slow, or whether it is what is running on the machine.

That's the first I've heard of WimBoot. After looking it up, it is
supposed to be used for small drives like 32 GB or smaller, and this
computer has a 500 GB hard drive.

How could I tell if it was set up for WimBoot?

Https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/...=255&MSPPError
=-2147217396

http://tinyurl.com/nmzsy8z

I think WimBoot is free up to 32GB drives, paid for over that. But
it's all a bit of a mystery to me.

I checked. It's not set up for WimBoot.

I can't believe Dell would install Windows 8.1 on a computer that's not
capable of running it properly.

The computer has 4 GB of Ram and a dual core 2.16 GHz processor.

The only thing I can think of that is slowing it down is the 5400 RPM
hard drive.