I own a MSI GS70 notebook. It has a GTX 860m and an Intel i7 4710HQ. The operating system is Windows 10 Home 64-bit.
Of course, it is not very strong, but it should be much more powerful than a normal laptop.
I have a 500GB HDD installed, of which 326GB are occupied.
I own the laptop about 2 years.
Now to my problem:
My laptop is running very slow, programs like Word or similar. Need some minutes to open, Windows needs 5 minutes to boot, all clicks are usually only about 2s later processed. Windows itself often lays.
However, more demanding PC games are fine for the GTX 960m, and benchmarks even give the system a higher performance rating (compared to others with the same configuration).
I have already done some virus tests (own Bitdefender 2019), but I have never had any viruses on my device.
Should I reinstall Windows? This would be only a stopgap for me, because unfortunately I have no stick with a capacity of 500GB, and this would be very cumbersome to transfer my files.
Are there any other solutions, or can't you do anything?
The best solution is actually a NEW installation.
For data backup is you as advised here to buy an external HDD.
Or on a cloud to secure (yes have Windows 10). Your important data should fit on it without any problems.
If you install Win10 NEW and not over Recover then you need an 8 GB USB stick, cost about 5-10 euro.
First of all, look at the clock frequency with which the CPU is idling and when you start an application. Also look at what temperature the CPU reaches.
Unless you have currently set the Energy Saving Power Scheme in both Windows Power Saving options for both mains and battery power, the i7-4710 HQ should have at least its base clock of 2.5 Ghz.
Basically, 1.8 "or 2.5" low spindle speed drives at around 5400 RPM are not known for speed. Compared to an SSD, this already causes huge differences when loading files of several GB size.
A good SATA 6Gb / s SSD with transfer rates of about 500 Mbytes / s works about 8-10 times faster than a "08/15" 2.5 "HDD in 5400 rpm with average transfer rates of about 50 to 60 Mbytes / s.
The notebook is not bad in itself. I would first pay attention to the temperatures, for example while gambling with MSI Afterburner.
Then, if you have not opened anything after booting, maybe a program or process will pull the power in Task Manager. It can also help disable the virus program.
However, a notebook HDD is usually quite lame, I would in your place, if you need to reinstall Windows eh install an SSD, which works wonders. That's pretty much going to be the main reason why things are going so slowly. Maybe she also has errors, maybe check it out.
An external hard drive to secure data you get already for 30 euro.
