xps 16 really really slow

why is my brand new xps 16 slow as hell ? It is slower than my four year old pentium desktop.

i scanned and there are no viruses, spyware, etc.

-opening programs take forever
-i cant listen to music while browsing the internet or the songs will skip every 2 seconds
-web videos skip and are basically unwatchable
-as i am typing this, no letters are coming up...i have to wait about a minute for the text to load to see if i misspelled anything.
-i hear a clicking sound from the hdd every so often

-i have the basic windows theme(no aero)
-startup programs have been cut down to just the basics
-what is going on?

 

This sounds to me like a fresh windows install.
Did you install drivers for the graphics card? - when I reinstalled Windows XP it was slow like that. After installing drivers everything worked just great!

 

i just did a fresh install (factory image restore)..factory settings

if i do the other way with the disc, i have no drivers, software, etc

yeah i have up to date drivers for the 4670

 

Your hard-drive is dying, why your performance is so bad.

 

thats great, now i gotta replace the hdd

 

i replaced the hdd and the noise is gone like others have heard....

but the laptop is unbelievably slow still.

i dont get it.

 

can you see the load on the CPU? is it constantly at 100%? Memory usage?

 

why not just ask for a replacement from dell ?

 

yeah its always really high as well as the memory usage

i think i might ask for a replacement now.

 

did you clone your drive or fresh install? cloned drive might have brought over some corrupted data or something shrug

 

yeah i forgot about this thread, but anyways I did a fresh install of windows 7.

it starts out fine, then after a little while it gets insanely slow. So i try shutting down programs until there are no applications running. That does nothing, it still stays up at the 80-100% cpu range when nothing is going on. Also, my 'free' memory from task manager is only about 300 at most!