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My wife's great nephew (that feels weird to type) just graduated from high school. He has a computer that is his game machine. The hard drive was running at 100% usage all the time. He asked me to look at it. My wife was in Enid, so he brought it to her to haul home. I have been tinkering with it. He had both McAfee and Norton antivirus, and Microsoft defender installed. I asked it there was any reason for that and he said his brother was convinced it was a virus. I uninstalled both of those, and went to just Defender. It took 30 minutes to defragment the drive, and that seems really slow. I dug in my box of old drives and found a 1 TB Segate drive that is certainly faster than his drive. I cloned his drive to the new drive and that helps.
I am going to suggest he spend about $100 for a 1 TB SSD. I will clone the system to that, and it will be a ton faster. I will put his old drive in as a second drive and a good backup place for files and as a second scratch drive.
I have a 2 TB SSD I am not using but that is worth 200 bucks, and I am not that generous. The 1 TB drive is no big deal as I likely would never use a drive that small.
He has just 16 gig of RAM, and that is slowing things down.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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