My laptop is very slow and is not running anymore as it should after update?

When I start it, it takes a long time to get to the home screen. Then it takes a long time to list all programs. My background image has been removed. Just did a normal Windows 10 update and then that. Can anyone tell me what to do?

So I would back up the data and then reset the device to factory settings or reinstall Windows 10. That helps to 91.998%.

Back up your data, where do you do that right away?

Without being rude, you seem to have little idea. Go to the expert or friend who knows. Otherwise, in 99% of the cases, you will only make things worse or broken.

Open the Task Manager, go to Startup and disable everything there, which should not start directly at the start of the computer.

Search for "Background apps" in Windows and set "Allow apps to run in the background" to "Off".

If you have any large folders or files on the desktop, move them somewhere else on your storage device and create a shortcut to it on the desktop. Links load much faster.

High resolution wallpapers also slow down the computer's startup.

You take a USB stick, an external hard drive, a DVD burner or something, and look for his pictures, music, videos (everything you can't download again), his Word, Excel, Powerpoint files, and push the corresponding one onto the stick or the disc (or burn it to a CD or DVD using CdBurner XP).

Take a look at the indicator LED on your notebook to see if there's still high disk activity after reaching the Home screen. If so, let the computer first "gerödeln" until hardly any disk activity is displayed.

Click on the task bar in the lower right corner and see if Windows is still busy with the configuration work of the last updates and wait until you have finished any work that is still in progress.

After that, you shut down the system and restart it if Windows does not give you another message in the meantime.

Then let's see if things are going better again.