Windows 10: Updating laptop....

Odd. I notice your window doesn't say Administrator and Power Shell though.

So in order:

1/ Copy the command
Winsat formal -restart cleanWinsat formal -restart clean

2/ Close any open applications and your browser so that you just have the desktop on view.

3/ Right click the start button and select Windows PowerShell (Admin). The user account control box opens to ask if you are sure.

4/ You should see the PowerShell window as shown below.

5/ Right click as if to paste your command and it should automatically fill in and run on its own.

6/ I just re-ran mine and it took 1 minute 51 seconds to complete.

 

Just a correction to the above:

WinSAT works in both Command Prompt and PowerShell, BUT the command MUST be run as ELEVATED or it opens a new window which will disappear after completion.

To open Command prompt or PowerShell as Administrator do the following:

• Press Windows key
• Type CMD or PowerShell
• When the application is found and is selected press CTRL + LeftShift + Enter OR you can just right mouse click the icon and select Run as Administrator
• You will see a User Account Control Dialog box asking you if you want to allow this app to make changes to your device. Press YES
• Now you have either a console window or a PowerShell window with the title Administrator: Command Prompt OR Administrator: Windows PowerShell
• Type the correct command: Winsat formal -restart clean

 

Thanks *Smile

Funny how you can look at something a dozen times and not spot it. Not sure how I came to do a double paste like that (but it actually worked because I used it today as a check)

 

YW! Yes it seems to work with the double commands too, which is kind of weird...or just brilliant programming in the tool and parameter checking. *Smile

 

Completely out of my depth with so much new and unknown jargon but got there somehow....*Confused *Confused If you can make sense of any of it your talents are wasted....

 

If you compare the lines says Disk Sequential and Disk Random and compare that to Moolys numbers, you can clearly see that your HDD is extremely slow in comparison.

Just by swapping to an SSD (even a cheap one) your Random 16.0 Read score will go up a lot, and you will notice the results in daily usage.

Overall the other numbers, except Disk reads are decent, nothing to worry about there since you are not a Power User.

 

Yes, those disk speeds are surprisingly slow (I must check my 11yr old Acer laptop that is running W10 and see what that comes out at).

An SSD has to make a big difference to the overall 'user experience' based on those figures.

 

Amazing I could never understand any of it in a million years thanks ! *Smile

So still go for this original choice ....?

SanDisk SSD PLUS 240 GB up to 530 MB/s Sata III 2.5 inch Internal SSD: Amazon.co.uk: Computers Accessories

 

Yes it's a good and cheap alternative, at least it's way faster than your current HDD. *Smile

 

That SSD looks OK to me.

When I was looking at the Lenovo site I think I noticed they had a forum as well. You could also ask for confirmation of your choice there although I can't really see any issues.

In preparation for clean installing you will need to create a 'bootable' flash drive of Windows 10 using the 'Media Creation Tool'.

Second option here currently:
Download Windows 10

Your PC should already have all the license details stored by MS and so there is nothing to do on that score.

You also need to become familiar with how to set your PC to boot from the memory stick. That is something you can look at now and a quick web search shows it to be a little different to usual (a hidden button ?).

I will have another look at that later *Smile It will be straightforward though.

How To Enter Bios Setup and Boot Menu On Lenovo G50 70 Laptop - TricK i Know - YouTube

 

My 11yr old Acer laptop running W10 32 bit version. AMD64 processor and 2Gb RAM.

 

Jeez, that is slow, hahah! But still good enough for many light Linux or older Windows distributions.

 

@slicendice, what's your numbers look like?

 

Here is my input to WinSAT:

Asus-U46SV:
Code: > CPU LZW Compression 259.82 MB/s > CPU AES256 Encryption 1117.41 MB/s > CPU Vista Compression 662.94 MB/s > CPU SHA1 Hash 614.61 MB/s > Uniproc CPU LZW Compression 103.19 MB/s > Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 324.48 MB/s > Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 281.92 MB/s > Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 316.84 MB/s > Memory Performance 13488.76 MB/s > Direct3D Batch Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Alpha Blend Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D ALU Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Texture Load Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Batch Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Alpha Blend Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D ALU Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Texture Load Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Geometry Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Geometry Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Constant Buffer Performance 42.00 F/s > Video Memory Throughput 8483.64 MB/s > Dshow Video Encode Time 0.00000 s > Dshow Video Decode Time 0.00000 s > Media Foundation Decode Time 0.00000 s > Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 511.72 MB/s 8.1 > Disk Random 16.0 Read 383.04 MB/s 8.2 > Total Run Time 00:01:42.78[/quote]

Asus ZenBook UX305:
Code: > CPU LZW Compression 188.23 MB/s > CPU AES256 Encryption 1406.79 MB/s > CPU Vista Compression 528.26 MB/s > CPU SHA1 Hash 630.28 MB/s > Uniproc CPU LZW Compression 89.96 MB/s > Uniproc CPU AES256 Encryption 450.79 MB/s > Uniproc CPU Vista Compression 248.09 MB/s > Uniproc CPU SHA1 Hash 334.39 MB/s > Memory Performance 19102.44 MB/s > Direct3D Batch Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Alpha Blend Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D ALU Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Texture Load Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Batch Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Alpha Blend Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D ALU Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Texture Load Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Geometry Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Geometry Performance 42.00 F/s > Direct3D Constant Buffer Performance 42.00 F/s > Video Memory Throughput 5634.32 MB/s > Dshow Video Encode Time 2.96488 s > Media Foundation Decode Time 0.13141 s > Disk Sequential 64.0 Read 360.75 MB/s 7.9 > Disk Random 16.0 Read 269.42 MB/s 8.0 > Total Run Time 00:01:53.17[/quote] Please refer to system specs on my profile for further hardware information.

 

Without doubt *Smile

At 11yr old its not worth spending money on and in any case the HDD is an older EIDE type and so not easily available, let alone looking for a higher performance version.

Once its up and running its not to bad but start up takes a couple of minutes and disk thrashing seems to go on for ever. LibreOffice opens in around 35+ seconds (I just timed it) compared to 1.5 on the Dell with an SSD.

I'm kinda fond of the old thing though.