Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Personal bad experience with CC cleaner. Or more precisely with a too eager user. Suggesting a new rotational HDD sounds out of place in 2019.
In many cases I'd agree. but . .
ccleaner: I did say back everything up first. I too have had one bad (recoverable) experience 3 years ago ; to be fair the system was pretty messed up anyway.
Probably used it successfully 100's of times on many many systems by now though. Read the options and pick only what you need etc . .
Various editions of windows installation, updates, checkdisk, or other failures have wasted 100 times more of my time and endangered far more TB's of data :-)
HDDs. Well I am not the only disappointed user who has paid many £100's for a 1TB SSD drive that barely increased the laptop's speed (even on a clear re-build etc.). Traced to poor MB storage performance especially on battery on a supposedly fast Asus laptop so we live and learn.
Didn't make it a terrible upgrade for other reasons like drop-proofing and noise but not value for money as a performance upgrade.
We don't know the OP's laptop spec, current HDD size / usage or the age of the laptop. It may not even have a SATA drive at all or have it on a poor peripheral controller so while share your enthusiasm to upgrade too I'm just saying it may not be all that cheap, easy or satisfying
CATIII I was talking time to being able to do work. W7 typically boots and shows you a login or desktop in 1 - 2 minutes from cold on a real-world laptop with antivirus etc. but the time to have a functioning web browser or email client can easily be 3 -4 minutes on a low powered laptop. Agree this grows from there to hours as the system degrades and storage fills.