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Speed Up Laptop

greyteam1959 · 2019-05-29 08:05:06

I have a 7 or 8 year old Emachines E525 laptop. An excellent piece of equipment. Seem to be getting a bit slow to load simple webpages now. I have done all the usual things to speed it up but there is no real improvement. It has a 500GB HHD which is probably getting a bit tired now I would have thought. If I put a 1TB SSD…

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greyteam1959 Posts: 4,717 Forumite

30 May 2019 at 11:49AM edited 30 May 2019 at 4:54PM

@ Everywhere

Upgrading the CPU looks like a major task, I would be a bit wary of dismantling such an old machine in case something breaks !
I will upgrade the HDD to SSD & see if that helps a bit.

Many thanks for your time & trouble.

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