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How to speed up a slow aging computer

Aging hardware slows down because of resource-heavy management software, system bloat, and overheating, which leaves laptops with poor battery life. This performance drop makes older machines frustrating to use and forces people to switch to alternative devices for reliable daily work.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Disabling non-essential UI features and animations
  2. 2
    Removing bloatware
  3. 3
    Replacing aging hardware or upgrading components like RAM and SSDs
  4. 4
    Using personal laptops instead of school-issued equipment
  5. 5
    Putting school-issued devices aside and bringing personal computers home
  6. 6
    Just don't reboot anything and it'll be fine
  7. 7
    using an external keyboard when laptop keys fail
  8. 8
    keeping outdated training room laptops running a single browser window

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“I hate my school-issued Dell laptop, it overheats and the battery lasts under an hour. I do everything on my Macbook Air - much more portable and reliable.”source ↗

gmf608 · r/Teachers · 1 upvotes

“I have this vm that won't die, it's gone from hyperV to ESX, and soon back to hyperV. It's the last exchange server for some bullshit hybrid thing that didn't go so well before my time and now I have the pleasure of doing one more migrain*tion Or, hopefully, fucking hopefully, I get the budget this year to hire the help i need to fix the move to 365. I hate that fucking thing and the people that fucked that migration.”source ↗

InvaderOfTech · r/sysadmin · 1 upvotes

“Sysadmin here, I suspect i can speed up our aging fleet (managed via Intune) a little bit by disabling a bunch of non-essentials that the past IT guy couldn't be bothered with.”source ↗

rocinanten · r/sysadmin

Where this came up

r/Teachersr/sysadminhardwareinfrastructureit supportlegacy systemssystem administration

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