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okay so last year I did a video showing you how to kind of get a laptop that wouldn't boot to work and we did an SSD upgrade in my brother-in-law's laptop you guys really like that video has tons of views unfortunately we couldn't recover that data off of there but this is a very similar type video but it's different so it's the same but it's not well guys it's 2019 time to make some new year's resolutions that probably won't make it to the very first week of February if you're anything like me anyway but that's besides the point because why not learn something new in 2019 and if you're enjoying what you're learning chances are you're gonna stick with it that's why we've teamed up with today's sponsor Skillshare now Skillshare has more than 25,000 online classes and workshops making it easy for you to find something that is gonna interest you making it much more likely that you're gonna stick with it now I'm a huge fan of the graphics design and excel classes because I I used to excel 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speaks to the average user out there who doesn't have a lot of money that has an old computer they've got to make work they've got to stretch it they can't go out and buy a new computer they might have a couple of bucks to spend on some upgrade parts so we're gonna be playing around this today to see if we can get this running decently you'll see once we get into the OS this thing is running so poorly that the hard drive might as well be bad because we can't get anything to work and that's my bad because the way I was able to actually get everything to back up was I just turned the computer here in the studio without wireless and everything worked fine the moment I connected it to wireless it said ah windows update and ever since it's been trying to update it has just been a hundred percent pegged on CPU 100 percent pegged on the drive speed and utilization and a hundred percent on the memory effectively making this computer like an update virus at this point yeah this this just goes to show how Windows updates when allowed to do their own thing will just completely wreck your user experience because this was not terrible this wasn't terrible but I have a feeling the reason why she was saying it was unusable at home and then I got it here and I was like oh I was able to boot it and root around windows and backup things and had no problems was because like I said we weren't connected to the Internet but at home I'm pretty sure she is connected to the Internet this is one of those deals were the best upgrade to this system it's just dunking in a bucket of water and buy a new one the point of this video was not everyone can do that now Phil wants to go into safe mode and he wants to disable a lot of the said services and stuff so that we can actually get it to work and run Geekbench but I kind of feel like that's counterproductive in the sense that you won't get a true sense of how bad it really is because of the fact that if we go in there and start deleting things then that's that's gonna be counterproductive but we will include that process we can kind of show you how to get it working again because not everyone is gonna be able to do a hard drive upgrade like we're about to do or an SSD upgrade so there are ways to actually get it to sort of respond now it may look like we're at the desktop but we still have tray missing here but if I click the start button yeah see nothing happens you hear the hard drive clicking away that's because it is completely like if I hit ctrl oh that so how long ago did I click that that one finally came back came up it's gotten norton mcafee and have asked all running so that's like kind of the first thing we would want to do is go in there and get that crap out of there because then it's not trying to run an update while also doing onedrive Oh it's got windows onedrive installed that's trying to sign in and sync plus the the constant scanning of drives with antivirus software that's probably seeing the other antivirus software as viruses and trying to conflict with each other so we are going to be starting safe mode with networking so that we can go in there and set things like Windows updates to a metered connection so it won't automatically download you just want to trick windows into not automatically downloading and applying updates the other thing we're gonna do in Safe Mode is we're gonna uninstall those virus scanners okay so go to the Start menu type Wi-Fi and you cannot you're going to do this for your Ethernet settings to so if you're doing this through a wired connection it'll be the same process that you're seeing here only you're gonna also do it for Ethernet connections not just Wi-Fi change Wi-Fi settings hopefully when we get a runtime error which we've been getting suddenly click on manage known networks click on your network go to properties and the right here it says set as metered connection your going to set that to on now that's basically doing is telling windows hey I pay for my data at the rate we use it we only get so much data per month or whatever your setup may be so that will stop it from automatically downloading updates you'll have to manually fetch the updates rather than having them pushed to you so now we're just going to go in here and go to programs add/remove programs and then just work our way down the list to delete a lot of this bloatware not like i said i'm going straight for the antivirus stuff i'm gonna go for onedrive so you can see we got avast free here we're gonna stall that dell digital delivery there's so much crap on here we're gonna be doing a fresh windows install but like I said what I'm trying to do right now is I'm trying to get the main system to actually be responsive that way you can backup all the stuff you want to backup now you can also backup in safe mode like we just showed you so that's number one but maybe you don't want to back up and do a restart maybe you just are trying to clean up the system a little bit and that is what we're we're doing here we are now going to move on to a hardware solution because what we just showed you can at least get your system back working again but we've got and this was basically bottom dollar my goal with this was to say if you've got very little budget some money to spend very little budget I've said it a million times I'm always gonna say it an SSD is where you should be spending your money for your first upgrade on a computer that has a hard drive this right here is going to alleviate the input output of the drive bottleneck which this computer is significantly dealing with the other problem with Dell machines it's just how big of a pain in the ass they are to service they are not designed to be user serviced so yeah we're gonna do what we can all right so you just saw how much teardown was required to actually get into this so this is probably one of those I've had to give a scale rating per skill rating for someone who's never done me at this I'd probably call it maybe a six out of ten but a fear factor probably more like an 8 out of 10 for somebody who's not comfortable with this because you are tearing things apart you're Dillon ribbon cables and little flip-up connectors you might have also noticed we didn't throw in the memory because as soon as we open it up we realize this thing is so budget that it only has one sodimm slot so at that point taking out that stick and putting in one of these is a downgrade because this is slower as we mentioned so I'm gonna get my money back for that but yeah look things actually happen now when we click on edge which whenever clicks on the browser actually opens it's not the snappiest thing it's still only a dual-core 1.6 gigahertz Celeron processor but stuff happens so that's kind of neat to see Windows Defender is still running that's not been turned off you've heard me preach it a million times an SSD even on the basic builds people are always like no it's okay I don't mind waiting for my hard drive I could save a couple bucks with how cheap SSDs are now spend the 25 bucks or whatever it is for a 128 gig and just put your OS on there because as long as your operating system is not having to share the spinning drive or the platter with other programs are being accessed while it's also got all the processes running in the operating system it will be snappy even if every program you install is on a hard drive if the OS is on an SSD the overall speed of the computer will improve and that's why I will always preach this and it's only getting cheaper as time goes on is m dot 2 m vm e's and all those become like the more mainstream stuff the SATA drives are kind of becoming the new hard drives if you will in terms of pricing we don't have a computer that at the start of this video was completely and utterly inoperable because of how hard locked it was with the bottlenecks between love token giving her 8 gigabytes of RAM they will update that in the future fortunately the Terra computer although that come hard to do it because we just assumed it had dual slots and it doesn't but whatever but by just by just removing the bottleneck of a hard drive you can see this is now usable once again so I hope this video has that shed some light and made you guys kind of think about your systems that are running slow and some things to consider what programs are running what programs could be conflicting multiple antivirus in this case plus the Windows Update and the fact that your if you have a spinning drive especially 5400 rpm it's more than likely this guy that's making your computer fill extremely dated so thanks for watching this video guys hopefully you guys have learned something and ten what you guys thought down in the comments below I still have this idea of starting a video series where we find the most troublesome junkyard type pcs and make them usable not like scrapyard Wars where it's about competing but seeing what kind of a crazy deal can you get in terms of something that maybe someone that was broken or obsolete and then actually making it usable if you guys want to see that make sure you comment down below and like this video thanks for watching guys and as always almost finding her drive around know his guys already backed it up it's fine thanks for watching we'll see you in the next one so I'm actually really proud of this you can you can really gauge how healthy a system is a system a system is about how fast it shuts down check this out here he actually