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shadowlight:
Rich, check the task manager for CPU utilization to identify the heavy users and also take a look at the disk usage?  My desktop i5 3xxx system comes to a grinding halt due to 100% disk usage when I start JRiver as front end for HQPlayer.

tmazz:
Does it seem slow to you outside of the test? It looks to me that they are no giving you any real data on how fast your computer is running, but rather just how it compares to some sort of measurement of how fast it is running compared to some sort of benchmark of how fast other people's computers are running. If that is the case you could be running at the exact same speed as the day you got the machine and that test would drop on a consistent basis as more and more higher speed machines came into the market.

looks more like  a weasel marketing tool designed to convince you to buy a new machine than an objective test that can be used to assess the health of the one you currently have.

HAL:
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32bit has been slow here running IE11 for awhile.  Intel Core 2 Duo with 2GB of memory on my laptop.  Cannot expand the memory, so that is about all it can do.  Running the default Intel graphics processor.

Last update yesterday from Microsoft did not seem to change anything. 

Have not tried Win 10 and 64bit OS on it like on the Music Server.  That seems faster on even a lower end processor like the Intel N2600 with 8GB of memory. 

Probably swap memory limited at this point here.  To much hard drive access for fast operation.

richidoo:
My daughter has same laptop with Win10 I'll compare them. Thanks!

Downloading windows updates now, maybe that will fix.  :roll:

malloy:
Hi richidoo,

Are you tied to Windows as an OS? I have an ancient IBM T60 has 3Gb of RAM that was running WIN 7 with all the latest bios and updates. I gutted it for a Linux Mint install. Much better.

I still have a low end Toshiba with Win 7 64 and 2gb of ram (a slow AMD) that progressively became slower as I added programs. Even a lightweight antivirus made it excruciatingly slow. Had to partition it and dual boot with another Linux distro.

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