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Originally Posted by paulat585
Hi Guys, I have a Dell Inspiron 15 which has been working well enough until Dell installed an update a few weeks ago. Now it is painfully slow to load in the morning. Took almost an hour this morning to open my Chrome browser. If I call up the task manager, I can close a few unneeded things to speed it up a little. I've used the Windows cleanup and the free AVG one. Task manager says my disk use is usually 100% but I don't know what that means. The other things on the Task Manager I can get down to about 65%. Any recommendations for things I can do on my own to help this problem? Thanks
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Retired computer tech here.
Arm chair diagnosis: it is almost certainly your hard drive. The 100% you see is not a space issue. It is reporting that the drive is 100% active; that is, it is performing 100% of the time. So, by extension, the drive at 100% activity is your performance bottle neck. Any recent update by Dell or Microsoft is not the cause of the problem. A sudden slowdown almost surely indicates that the drive is failing. But, it hasn't failed yet so you have time to act. Replace it now before it collapses.
Solution: replace the drive with a new Solid State Drive (SSD). Buy a Crucial mx500 series on Amazon of sufficient size to hold the contents of your current drive with room to grow. It comes with a free software download to image copy your failing drive to the new SSD. Once that process completes, you just replace the current drive with the SSD. All your programs / files / settings are intact.
Done this 100's of times for customers. Not local to help you at this time though.
YouTube (video) is your friend for any details on how to replace the drive in your laptop.