Board 8 > Would a SSD fix my laptop being incredibly slow on startup?

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davidponte
05/22/20 8:03:31 AM
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I don't know anything about computers. Sometimes when I restart my laptop, and more egregiously when I take it off of sleep mode, which is what I usually have it on, it'll take upwards of and over five minutes just to be able to reliably use any app or program, including Chrome, which seems insane.

I can understand when I first restart the computer because everything needs to load on startup, so I've made it so only the essential programs load when I turn on the computer to minimize the time needed to wait.

What I don't understand is why it takes forever for anything to work when the computer is already on and nothing needs to startup. It's only a few years old and I am very minimalist when it comes to stuff that I have installed on it.

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BlackDra90n
05/22/20 9:32:53 AM
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It really depends. It could, but it could also be a number of other things. You'd probably want to run some sort of diagnostics to see what the bottleneck actually is. The Task Manager could be a good first step, see if any programs are causing any slowdowns.

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NFUN
05/22/20 10:14:00 AM
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Probably

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davidponte
05/22/20 10:20:26 AM
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It's weird because sometimes I'll take it out of rest mode and everything is good to go instantly, and other times it's how I described it in the first post. I'm not doing anything different, either.

When I made the topic I had to wait five minutes for Gamefaqs to be fully functional and quick, but just now I took it out of rest mode, immediately clicked Chrome, and was ready to go.

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