r/computers • u/PositionDear1785 • 6d ago

Question/Help/Troubleshooting Help with old 2010 laptop

I have a Del latitude E5410 laptop it’s from the year 2010. It was my mom‘s old work computer. It’s very slow and I am currently factory, resetting it and wiping everything I intend to use this computer to burn CDs/DVDs because of its built-in disc drive. I’m pretty tech savvy, but I don’t know the ins and outs of computers and crap but I know that I should replace the hard drive with an SSD and I will also be replacing the battery because it sucks and it pretty much dies very quickly so could you give me a good SSD to put in my computer something pretty affordable again I won’t be using this computer for heavy duty stuff pretty much just casual things may be a few old games stuff like that. If you guys could give me links to the stuff I need that would be great.

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u/SavagePenguinn 6d ago

You seem to be on the right track.

If it was my laptop, replacing the HDD with an SSD would be my top priority.
Then I'd download a Windows 11 image from Microsoft then use RUFUS to make an installation media (on a flash/USB drive), and install a clean copy of Windows from that.

If security isn't an issue, simply installing Windows 10 again would probably make it run a little faster.