On Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:50:30 UTC+1, NY wrote:


It typcally takes about 10 mins to boot: a minute or so to bring up the
desktop but then ages before I can interact with it.

Wow and I;ve just got a SSD for my mac mini as I was fed up with waiting 1:30sec for it to boot and ANOTHER 9 secs before I could do anything.

and apps will open or
fully draw their window. And then once it has booted and settled down, there
will be occasions when it has a fit of slowness.

sounds like my students, well some.


As far as I know, there's nothing unusual about it. Standard installation of
Win 7 Home Premium, with any customisations/addons that Samsung may have
installed in their standard image, but with some of them then disabled or
uninstalled. Avast Free antivirus. No much set to auto-start at boot.

I don't think adding the extra 2 GB of RAM (it was supplied with 4 GB) made
any difference to the severity or frequency of the go-slows, though it did
increase the amount of reported free memory and *slightly* reduce the
Physical Memory Usage graph.


I could try restoring to factory state again, and then go through the hassle
of restoring all my customisations, reinstalling applications and copying
back data, but that would be a bit like admitting defeat. ;-)

Depending on size and importance I'd consider getting a SSD.