Bring old tech to life

A great way to bring an old laptop back to life. I have an almost 6 year old lenovo laptop, which started to feel sluggish in the past year or two. A full restart would take at least 90 seconds, up to 2 minutes, programs would open slowly, the desktop would take a few minutes to fully load after restart. I decided to see how much it will improve if I swap out the HDD with this SSD, since it was fairly cheap, and from a brand I recognise. I can't adequately describe the improvement I am enjoying, and to anyone that is wondering if it's worth it, go for it. A full restart now takes 25 seconds, the desktop loads in an instant, programs and windows search are very snappy, it's awesome. About Windows, how to do it? I personally went with a fresh install, rather than trying to copy old junk to my new drive. To people that are afraid to do it, it's simpler than you would think. Go to Microsoft's "Create Windows 10 installation media" page, and run the tool. You would need an empty pen drive. It's all next, next, and it will create a bootable drive out of your pen drive. After you backup all your important files, take out your old HDD, put in the new one, plug in the bootable flash, and switch on your laptop. Since the hard drive is empty, your machine will find the first bootable drive, which would be that pen drive, and from then on out it's just a next, next installer again. It's important to note that most people have their windows licence digital on their Microsoft account. If that's the case, you do not need to enter any licence key during installation, and once you log in to your windows when Cortana prompts you after installation, everything should be working as normal. To check if your windows is activated with a digital license, open the settings app, and search for "Activation Settings" - you should see "Windows is activated with a digital licence linked to your Microsoft account.". Of course make sure that you remember your username/email and password.Read full review

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