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My brother-in-law has a cheap HP laptop used by his kids for schoolwork.
It had got into a bit of a state and was running slowly with some dubious software. I removed a bunch of stuff that had been installed, that was obviously not required (three different driver scanners!), had been downloaded in error or looked like malware.
I also disabled as many 'start on login' apps as I could and removed AVG replacing it with MSE. (AVG is uninstalled and replaced with MSE after failing to detect malware)
What remains is a significant quantity of bundled HP and 'nero backup' software, including a HP restore utility (apparently something like the osx hidden partition restore), the trackpad driver.
is there anything else I can do to breath a little more life into the old 'celeron' laptop?
Should I bit the bullet and just put win8 on it? Will the trackpad still work?
Lots of similar questions have been answered here. Before you can get a good answer, what do you currently have? What make/model laptop? What OS? If you go into Windows Experience Index, what is your bottleneck? What amount of RAM? What kind of hard drive? – Blackbeagle – 2013-10-21T09:24:55.660
can you provide some example questions with similar advice - a search didn't provide the general answers I was after. – spdegabrielle – 2013-10-31T13:47:06.410