Deteriorating Performance With Windows 10

Hi

I am new to the forum having been recommended by my brother who was highly impressed with the help he received for deteriorating performance with his machine! I am hoping with someone's help and patience, I can benefit in the same way.

I have a Dell laptop which has progressively become slower for some time without introducing new software, apart from Window's updates, its literally click and wait!

I have checked for driver updates on the Dell website and implemented where necessary, scanned for viruses with external scanners, checked for adware & malware. Refreshed the operating system from the MS website & run disk checks & hardware analysis, all to no avail.

These are the machine details:

Dell Inspiron 5547

Processor:                         Intel® Core™ i5-4210U CPU @ 1.70GHz   2.40 GHz

Installed RAM:                  8.00 GB (7.88 GB usable)

Operating System:            W1064-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Storage:                            ST1000LM024 HN-M101MBB

Possibly the machine hardware can't handle what W10 has become? Any help greatly appreciated!

Edited by hamluis, Today, 10:58 AM.
Moved from Discussion to W10 Spt - Hamluis.

The first thing I would do is tap F12 at boot and do a complete hardware diagnostic.
 

Edit: If you have data on the HDD that is not backed up then back it up first.

Edited by JohnC_21, Today, 08:47 AM.