Laptop help again

[Jlg]

my laptop has been struggling with fusion 360 and cura for my 3D printer on a bad day it can take up to 20 minutes for the program to open does anyone have any ideas or is the specs just not good enough

 

[Jlg]

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8455372
This is the one I have

 

[Jlg]

And one more if the one I have isn’t good enough would this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8658258
Or this https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8883140

 

[Tom O]

I bought a MSI laptop for mine similar to the Asus it even has a clear rubber cover for the keys I have no complaints, mind you there is a bunch of gaming stuff I’ll never use.

 

[voipio]

The spec suggests it should be sufficient to run just about anything, although at 1366 x 768 pixels, the screen resolution will be a bit limiting for CAD type applications. It's worth finding out what is running in the background wasting cpu cycles; things such as major Windows updates spring to mind, and malware, services not needed for normal running, antivirus software doing a full scan, or there's a system problem giving lots off e.g. memory faults.

Try holding down Ctrl + Shift + ESC, to bring up Task Manager, and look at what the processor, memory, and hard drive are doing. Don't be surprised to see a few memory faults here and there, which is quite normal with fast processors and data buses, but a huge number is not a good thing. Also, could it be running hot because the air vents are blocked? Processors will get throttled down if they start to get hot. Using a laptop on a soft surface likely to block the underside vents is not a good idea.

 

[Jlg]

The spec suggests it should be sufficient to run just about anything. It's worth finding out what is running in the background wasting cpu cycles; thigs such as major updates spring to mind, and malware, services not needed for normal running, antivirus software doing a full scan.

I don't think it's running anything
And the only antivirus is the Norton that it came installed with

 

[slim_boy_fat]

I don't think it's running anything
And the only antivirus is the Norton that it came installed with

Norton is notoriously 'performance' hungry and will slow things down.

 

[pedrobedro]

Get rid of Norton and add as much ram as it can handle.

 

[aguycalledsteve]

What Internet browser are you running? I ask because, we have a similar problem with resources when my users running google chrome with other applications. Chrome is very memory intensive and I've first hand seen it use over a gig of memory doing normal day to day browsing of the web. Just thinking that if you had it open whilst running your software it might be causing you issues

 

[Jlg]

Get rid of Norton and add as much ram as it can handle.

How do you remove it as it came pre installed for 30 days

 

[RonA]

As above whats running on your computer in the background, you’ll be amazed how much junk gets installed as you browse. Down load something like Ccleaner, Advanced system care or malwarebytes then run it to clean out all the junk & rubbish that’ll be clogging up your system & slowing it down.
RonA

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Get rid of Norton and add as much ram as it can handle.

Quite likely to be a memory issue as others have said...when programs run out of active memory on the machine they can switch to writing temporary files to disk instead....and that can be really sssslllloooooowwww.

As suggested...ctl/ald/del when running the software and check the memory used....most laptops can take a memory upgrade and its very easy to do....literally 1 screw in the back usually! But have to check the board and windows to make sure if can make use of what you put in.

 

[Jlg]

Would something like I've linked to be better as if so il just get one of them as I could take it with me and do a bit of gaming on it on the rainy nights in the caravan

 

[slim_boy_fat]

How do you remove it as it came pre installed for 30 days

There's an Uninstall programme available from Norton themselves - I used it years ago to get rid of SystemWorks and it seemed to do the trick. Pretty sure there are always tiny files left behind though...

https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v15972972_ns_retail_en_us

 

[Jlg]

Quite likely to be a memory issue as others have said...when programs run out of active memory on the machine they can switch to writing temporary files to disk instead....and that can be really sssslllloooooowwww.

As suggested...ctl/ald/del when running the software and check the memory used....most laptops can take a memory upgrade and its very easy to do....literally 1 screw in the back usually! But have to check the board and windows to make sure if can make use of what you put in.

There is only 50g of the 2tb hard drive used And 7.8gb of 8 go ram available

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

And 7.8gb of 8 go ram available

The available ram sounds a bit suspiciously high to me (how much does windows use?)....but 8gb total should be plenty for most applications I would have thought.

 

[Jlg]

The available ram sounds a bit suspiciously high to me (how much does windows use?)....but 8gb total should be plenty for most applications I would have thought.

Just what it says in the settings

 

[pedrobedro]

There is only 50g of the 2tb hard drive used And 7.8gb of 8 go ram available

Ram is used as it is needed by programs, if there is more ram it takes a load of strain off your hard drive which is used as swap file space or virtual memory slowing programs down when ram is used up.

 

[Luke]

Is it Cura or Fusion 360 that's taking 20 minutes to load?

 

[Jlg]

Is it Cura or Fusion 360 that's taking 20 minutes to load?

It can be both