Acer aspire 7 extremely slow

Hey guys, ive got an issue here. My acer aspire 7 is extremely slow. It will freeze on the most basic tasks such as searching the windows menu or opening a browser, settings or anything really. Its very frustrating that a somewhat new laptop does this. I bough it 9 months ago and the specs seemed beefy enough to keep up with basics tasks, yet thats not the case.

Has anyone else had issues with those laptops?
Is there any solution for it?
Is there a way to upgrade my RAM ?
Can i get an SSD for the laptop?

>Ive already reinstalled windows - it didnt help.
>Ran all kind of programs beforehand to make sure its not viruses or malware thats slowing it down.
>Also ran a stress test to make sure that everything is fine. It did well on the stress test, altho it did overheat which i think is normal for a laptop getting pushed to the limits of what it can do.

Laptop specs:
Intel i7-7700HQ 2.80 - 3.80 GHZ
Gtx 1050 2gb ddr5
8gbs DDR4 RAM
1 TB hard disc
ASPIRE 7 A717-71G-7488 /BK
its the 17.3 inch display version

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Jack22

@Frosttide
Yes you can upgrade RAM and you can add SSD

System Memory
DDR4 2133/2400 SODIMM memory interface design:
• DDR4 SODIMM slot x 2
• Maximum memory is up to 32GB

Storage Subsystem
• SATA HDD  Storage 1 : M.2 2280 for SSD (PCIe/SATA Co-lay)
 Storage 2 : 9.5mm/7mm co-lay (Support HDD Door)

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Jack22

@Frosttide
For slow performance Try clean boot. The steps are given below

Windows 10:

Press the "Windows + R" key to open a Run box.
Type msconfig and click OK.
On the General tab, click Selective startup.
Clear the Load startup items check box.
Click the Services tab.
Select the Hide all Microsoft services check box (at the bottom).
Click Disable all.
Click the Startup tab.
Click Open Task Manager.
On the Startup tab, right-click each enabled startup item and select Disable.
Click OK.
Click Restart.

Still if the laptop is slow than i would suggest you to reset the laptop

Navigate to Settings. ...
Select "Update & security"
Click Recovery in the left pane. ...
Click Get started under Reset this PC.
Click either "Keep my files" or "Remove everything," depending on whether you want to keep your data files intact.
select "remove evrything"
than click fully clean the drive and click reset .
THe reset process will take 2 to 3 hours, till the

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Jack22

@Frosttide
Yes you can upgrade RAM and you can add SSD

System Memory
DDR4 2133/2400 SODIMM memory interface design:
• DDR4 SODIMM slot x 2
• Maximum memory is up to 32GB

Storage Subsystem
• SATA HDD  Storage 1 : M.2 2280 for SSD (PCIe/SATA Co-lay)
 Storage 2 : 9.5mm/7mm co-lay (Support HDD Door)

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MaClane

Good Morning Frosttide !

Check in the Task Manager if the disk is displaying 100% usage error.

Like this:

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blackjack

Really the best solution is to buy an ssd and install windows on their. Running windows on a regular hard drive is dreadfully slow lol

MaClane

blackjack disse:

Really the best solution is to buy an ssd and install windows on their. Running windows on a regular hard drive is dreadfully slow lol

Strongly disagree.
Any current HDD has standard technology and performance to run an Operating System without any probe.
An SSD would only increase read and write speeds.
But if this 100% disk usage error is occurring, no SSD will resolve.
The solution should be through procedures already known.