Inspiron 15 5000 very slow

Open task manager, click on the performance tab and monitor the graphs during slowdown events. If CPU usage is low to moderate, memory usage is normal but disk activity is constantly high, I would guess that the internal drive isn't reading fast enough or could possibly be failing. If you have a hard drive, I'd suggest that you upgrade to a SSD for better performance. If you provide your exact model number, I can see if your system contains a PCIe M.2 slot, which can be used with a NVMe SSD drive for even faster disk access.

thank you for your information, I saw the performance through the task manager the CPU around 30% and Ram 6GBfrom 11.9GB and HDD 99% , and my model is P75f001

If it has a spinning hard drive (say a 1 or 2 TByte drive), that's one major bottleneck.

If it's running McAfee Live Safe, that's another one.

Upgrading to an SSD and ditching McAfee in favor of Windows Defender are two things that will immediately boost performance.

OK, so you have a Inspiron 5570.

Your system does have a PCIe M.2 slot, and it can accept a NVMe drive up to 512 MB.

Inspiron 5570 Drive Specifications

For anyone else experiencing this issue:

1. Restart your machine
2. When the Dell logo appears, tap F2 repeatedly
3. Go to the Advanced tab -> Intel SpeedStep and change to Enabled.

what's different between both of them PCIe M.2 slot, and NVMe drive, and I think I can put the PCle M.2 in place of DVD drive

thank you

NVMe SSD's are designed for the M.2 PCIe slot. They currently provide the fastest transfer rate with a speed of around 3,000 MB/s.

M.2 SATA SSD's are also available, but they are much slower with a transfer rate of around 500 MB/s.They are equivalent to 2.5" SSD's, just in a smaller forum factor.

While adapters do exist to convert M.2 drives to a standard SATA connector/2.5" forum factor, you will be extremely bottle-necking a NVMe SSD, essentially making it operate at SATA speeds. Plus installing a drive in place of a CD drive will further degrade the transfer speed as that SATA port is much slower (150 MB/s) compared to the internal SATA port designed for a 2.5" drive (600 MB/s). It's best to install a NVMe SSD directly in the M.2 PCIe slot on the system board to obtain the fastest possible speeds.

It works thanks..  

Hi,

I also have the above issue with the same model Dell. Painfully slow. So slow i have threatened to run it over in the tractor for some satisfaction, but i know that would be very irresponsible! The performance is reading CPU 20/Mem 64%/Disk 100%. The disk is whizzing at 100% all the time, even under no load. Ive kept the laptop powered up and all the updates are complete. I did try restarting and pressing the F2 key, but it just restarted as normal, incredibly slow.

I have now bought a SSD NVMe 512Gb and plan to fit it in the M.2 PCIe slot. What procedure do i need to do then so the laptop knows it has to use the SDD drive.

I am not IT literate at all, so please could the explanation be in easy to read language.

cheers

I have the same laptop.  It is super slow, taking long to response to anything.   It is way slower than my 10 year old computer.  Checked HDD spec, it should not be that slow.  Clean up start programs, delete McAfee.  It is still slow.  It looks like something fundamental is not working well, probably a design flaw.

You're either going to need to image the existing drive over to the new one, or install a fresh copy of Windows. Macrium Reflect can be used to clone the existing drive to the new one, but be sure you shut down and remove the original drive from the system before you boot it the first time.

If you do a clean install, remove the original drive before you install Windows onto the new one.

I’m with everyone else here; the Inspiron 15 has been tediously slow since day one, so much so I have hardly ever used it as it is absolutely RUBBISH!! I don’t own a tractor, so throwing it out of the window has been very tempting.  I don’t know enough about computing to be able to follow most of the tech above, the disc is spinning all the time and it is soo slow to respond (even to just start up) it is virtually impossible to do anything effective.  Itel Speedstep was already enabled.

Try disabling MSI mode for your Advanced Host Controller Interface
(AHCI) used by StorACHI.sys driver.

see:  https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-windows-10-100-percent-disk-usage-problem

I have same issues Inspiron 15 5000 series. It takes for ever to open anything, then I get « not responding «   Funny I said the same thing,,,this computer must be thrown out the window »   I have windows 8 do I follow same steps ?