Solved: Lenovo Laptop Running Slow Windows 10
- Scenario: Lenovo laptop is running very slow on Windows 10
- Why your Lenovo laptop running slow in Windows 11/10/8/7?
- How to speed up Lenovo laptop?
- Method 1. Clean out the dust
- Method 2. Check your hard disk
- Method 3. Free up disk space or replace hard drive with a larger one
- Method 4. Upgrade antivirus software
- Method 5. Reinstall Windows
Scenario: Lenovo laptop is running very slow on Windows 10
"From the first day of my experience with my new Lenovo G50 with good specs windows 10, my Lenovo laptop is running very slow, just clicking the folder takes more than 8-10 secs to open and load, even when I'm trying to click other apps such as Photoshop, Google, minutes past and it is still loading to open, even when I'm playing, I'm trying to unpause the game, it just shut down, sometimes the caps lock on/off are switching. It even just stop, no cursor, just nothing, the screen isn't moving so I only just force to shut it down. I'm not expecting a very fast laptop, but based on its specs, I'm not expecting it to be this slow. Can you guys help me?"
Why your Lenovo laptop running slow in Windows 11/10/8/7?
Actually, more than one users have this problem just as the Scenario said. And here we list some possible reasons that cause Lenovo laptop slow:
1. The dust inside your laptop.
2. Hard drive's performance reduction.
3. Low disk space.
4. Antivirus software may cause your Lenovo laptop running slow.
5. Windows 10 update may also cause your PC running slow.
How to speed up Lenovo laptop?
As for so many reasons that could cause Lenovo laptop running slow Windows 10, here we have found the following methods to help you speed up your Lenovo laptop, all the methods are tested before we post.
Method 1. Clean out the dust
As time goes by, your computer may collect lots of dust in the fans and vents. The truth is that tiny specks of dust have less effect on computer performance, but if your laptop collects a lot, it will affect the computer's ability to cool itself down, which may impact the system's performance and life-cycle. Thus, clean out the dust out of the vents could help a lot if your laptop is old.
A brush or a can of compressed air is a good tool for clearing the dust.
Method 2. Check your hard disk
Hard drive properties are important for Lenovo laptop users. It is necessary to check hard drive once your Lenovo laptop running slow. For testing hard drive, you can use the hard disk manager Qiling Disk Master, which can test hard drive quickly. You can download its Demo version to have a try!
1. Install and launch it on your Windows 10 Lenovo laptop. Click the hard disk, and select Surface Test.
2. Then, check the option of Quick Check, and click Proceed. It will check whether there is a bad sector on the hard drive.
If there is a bad sector on the hard drive, you can try to check partition error and fix it with Qiling Disk Master Standard.
Method 3. Free up disk space or replace hard drive with a larger one
The low disk space is another reason that causes Lenovo laptop to run slow. Thus, to speed up your Lenovo laptop, you need to free up disk space or enlarge the disk space.
1. Uninstall useless programs
In Windows 10, you can press Windows key + R key at the same time, type "control panel" to open Control Panel. Here you can quickly identify and remove the useless software to free up some storage space and boost performance of your laptop. If you still want to use the apps, you can move the installed applications from C drive to another drive.
2. Extend system partition
C: drive running out of space can affect Lenovo
Thus, if the C: drive is almost full, your laptop will slow down. Thus, you can try to extend system partition to speed up your Lenovo laptop.
Windows Disk Management can help you extend system partition. But if there is no unallocated space next to C drive, the Extend Volume would be grayed out. Thus, the partition manager Qiling Disk Master can help a lot - It allows you to allocate free space from one hard drive to another, which can directly extend system partition with free space on other partitions.
Step 1. Launch Qiling Disk Master Professional. Right-click the D: drive (you can also choose another hard drive which has free disk space), and select Allocate Free Space.
Step 2. Select C: drive to allocate free space from D: drive to C: drive.
Step 3. Click Proceed to submit the operation.
3. Replace the small hard drive with a larger one
If you find the low disk space is because of the small hard disk, you should consider replacing the hard drive with a larger one. If you do not want to reinstall Windows, the Qiling Disk Master Professional we mentioned above can help you change hard drive without OS reinstallation.
Connect the new larger hard drive to your Lenovo laptop via a USB cable, make sure it can be detected.
1>. Launch Qiling Disk Master Professional. click "Tools" and "Clone Disk".
2>. Then, choose the original disk as the source disk.
3>. Here you can select the copy method: Clone Disk Quickly (recommended, not tick) or tick "Sector-by-sector Clone".
4>. Choose the new disk as the target disk.
5>. Qiling Disk Master allows you to edit partitions on the destination disk. If you want to do it later, you can also use Qiling Disk Master to repartition hard drive after copy.
6>. Click Proceed button to clone disk.
7>. Read the Note, and then, click Finish.
After disk copy, you can shut down your Lenovo laptop and change the old hard drive with the cloned one manually.
Method 4. Upgrade antivirus software
Sometimes your antivirus software will slow down your computer. If your Windows 10 Lenovo laptop running slow suddenly, you can try to upgrade your antivirus software to see if the problem has been solved.
Method 5. Reinstall Windows
If all the methods mentioned above do not work well, you can consider reinstalling Windows 11/10/8/7. The operation will take a lot of time, but you have to do it. The reinstallation will reformat the hard drive, you'd better backup disk before reinstalling.
Hope this article can help you a lot when your Lenovo laptop running slow in Windows 11/10/8/7.
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