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Showerthought: I used to think a full reinstall was always the answer for a slow PC.
I was fixing a friend's laptop last week and he mentioned his kid said 'it's like it's thinking through mud.' I was about to grab a USB drive, but I ran a quick check on the drive health first. CrystalDiskInfo showed the SSD was at 98% health, so I just cleared out a ton of startup programs and temp files instead. It's back to normal now. How often do you guys actually find a failing drive versus just a clogged system?
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schmidt.grant10d agoMost Upvoted
My buddy had a similar thing, his old laptop was crawling. A clean install of Windows made it feel brand new again.
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uma_reed2610d ago
Honestly, failing drives are pretty rare now (most slowdowns are just software bloat).
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