It takes to long to load everything when I turn the computer on. The activity light seems to flicker for a long time.
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OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro, 64 bit, Build 19041, Installed 20200811141344.000000-300
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2030 @ 3.00GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 58 Stepping 9, CPU Count: 2
Total Physical RAM: 6 GB
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
Hard Drives: C: 232 GB (199 GB Free);
Motherboard: Dell Inc. 042P49, ver A02, s/n /65KPBZ1/CN701633A307GQ/
System: Dell Inc., ver DELL - 1072009, s/n 65KPBZ1
Antivirus: Security Suite by F-Secure, Enabled and Updated
Right click on taskbar and choose Task Manager. On the Processes tab, click on the Disk column header. This will sort the running programs in ascending or descending order ( if you click it again) of disk usage. See which program(s) are using the most disk activity.
I read the entire article and did them all. Why accuse me of not reading it? Computer still takes a lot of time to load and the activity light blinks for over 5 minutes on start up. Can anyone else help me out.
Right click on Task Bar and open Task Manager. Look at the Startup tab. See if there is anything that you don't want to run at sign in. Right click those and select Disable.
If you haven't made any hardware changes since this computer's build date (according to the Service Tag of your OptiPlex 3010 - November 2013 - 8 years old) then the likely hood is that the hard drive is showing its age. The drive you have has mechanical parts where they will wear down over time, and you would hear that happening. An SSD drive eliminates that as well as being faster than the drives of old, though you still have other components that may be affecting your speed (memory and processor), but at least the hard drive change would make it run a little smoother.
Dells have an encasement/tray for the small physical sizes. If you are unsure of the computer, I would recommend a local IT shop to assist in purchasing the items you need. I have been seeing drives for about $35 for the same size as the one you have now.
So I can actually put an SSD drive in this in this computer and it will run faster and load faster? Would you know which SSD drive I will need to purchase for this computer?
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Discord is probably the only one on that list that you can. I suspect the others is for the system.
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