iobit is shady, beware of them

It’s a Seagate, you shouldn’t be concerned. Backup your data frequently because Seagate drives are infamous for failing spectacularly when you least expect it. While the 4GB of RAM is good, you might want to check your RAM speed. Your computer ultimately seems to be very old; consider that your Intel Solo is a VERY old and underpowered chip, thus I would not reccomend running anything modern on it.. This would also explain why the already bad quality hard drive is slowing down. Sadly things are prone to aging, and while you might be in luck enough to be able to run Windows 10 on such old hardware, after roughly 10 years it’s time to upgrade.

I use CC Cleaner and Iobit’s Advanced system Care to clear the junk out. Scary how much they seem to catch. I only clean the registry a couple times a month, though. All of that has worked very good for me for years.

Thank you Andy for clearing up this issue. Letting Windows do the automatic defragging, but not a 3rd Party program do it, that makes sense. :)

My laptop has a Seagate Momentus hybryd ST750LX003, 4 GB of ram, Intel Core Solo 1.4 Mhz. It was working fine, but since weeks ago the taskbar is taking time to load.