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General computer performance vs. am I just impatient?

I reinstalled win 10 home on a dell Inspiron 17R laptop that has 6GB RAM, with an i5-3317U (1.7GHz) processor.  It's 3 1/2 years old.  

I had recently put in a new WD 750GB 7200RPM hard drive.  

It boots and runs fine, but just seems 'sluggish', take a couple seconds to open Chrome, create list of installed apps in the settings / programs screen, etc.

Yes, I know - an SSD would speed things up.  Yes, a faster processor would help.  More RAM would help.

Am I just impatient though?  They say you can put win 10 on older / slower machines.  Yes, this is an i5, but a  slower / older i5.  cpu benchmark shows it with a score of 3089.  While other i5's come in as high as 7,838 - more than twice as fast.  

I just would think things would be snappier on a clean / new win 10 install.  Expecting too much from a bloated OS?  

How's win 10 on a newest / fastest machine?  Does it run any better?

I remember reading about a 'delay' in how quick menus will pop up, etc.  Not sure if that's all I want / need?
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Checking taskmgr, theres 39 background processes, including store, xbox and cortana, get office and office click to run (we did install office suite based on their office 365 subscription. so 'get office' doesn't seem to be needed to be running.

there's 30% of ram used.

no virus I'll bet - new hard drive, installed win 10 home, installed office 365 desktop apps.  that's it.

Rindi - how would you quantify 'My Windows 10 PC's all run fast' : )  ???

I just rebooted.  double clicked chrome on desktop.  counting to 4 then google page loaded.  2nd time it took less than 2 seconds.

closed that, clicked on word icon, took about 7 seconds to get to the recent / open docs page.



any advice which background apps to kill and how to kill them?
I can't quantify it. It is just the way it feels. And also when I compare the same PC's running Windows 7, Windows 10 is a little faster.
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