Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-3547390-20170905133613

I remember the time I tried setting fast boot because I wanted the computer to boot up quickly. Doing such is essentially a death sentence, without resetting the bios of course, as soon as your computer has issues if you are wireless. I assume by the gulp it was a battery you had to pop off as opposed to a switch.

I have played with computers quite a bit, I am at least used to the basics, and I still get terrified any time I need to touch anything in my computer as I fear using too much force. I especially don't like touching the CPU, one bent chip and the entire thing is a bust, and yet it makes cracking sounds when placing it into the computer.

A graphics card from 2006 that was on the extreme low end. The integrated graphics of a recent Intel CPU is insanely more powerful than that graphics card.

I really would look into how much CPU/memory that thing has and if it is being bottlenecked. Most recent software tends to be more RAM demanding. Most browsers are known to be RAM eaters these days, I wouldn't go less than 4 GB.

It may also be that you may need to replace the hard drive or get a SSD like Raadec said. A slow hard drive could be signs that it is dying, the write/read performance falters a lot near the end of its life. There might be some software to test exclusively that, but I generally use Dxtory for such a situation. Just install the latest version and get past the trial timer. This should serve as a good tutorial to follow, just start at the bottom and work up