Personal files - photos, music and documents - are kept, so it isn't a complete refresh, but it's may be enough for most people. A more powerful option is Remove everything and reinstall Windows. Copy files you want to keep to a USB drive before starting though.
Out of date drivers, programs and Windows itself can cause the computer to run slowly. Faulty drivers for example, stop Windows shutting down or cause it to start more slowly. Video card drivers are often updated to fix bugs and boost performance, and it is always a good idea to check that you have the latest version. Even if Windows updates are automatic, go to Windows Update in the Control Panel and manually check for updates. Only essential ones are installed automatically and there may be useful optional ones available.
Dell says the Dell Inspiron 13 5000 will last up to 10 hours of a charge. Right away we knew this was a bit optimistic for our review machine. That¡¯s the sort of charge you get from laptops less powerful than this one.
Playing a looped MP4 720p file the Dell Inspiron 13 5000 lasts 385 minutes, or six hours 25 minutes. That¡¯s not enough for a full day¡¯s work unless you¡¯re luckier then we are, but is respectable stamina.
Once again, we come back to the idea this is a portable laptop, but one that doesn¡¯t value extreme portability over everything else. But maybe that¡¯s OK.
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The Dell Inspiron 13 5000 tells you larger convertible laptops have truly entered the mainstream. It¡¯s reasonably affordable, still looks good and has the roughly the same power as some laptops costing way over £1000. Down sides include that the screen isn¡¯t as colourful as the best and that the casing is made of plastic rather than something fancy like aluminium or a magnesium alloy. Oddly enough, though, it actually fits in well among its more stylish peers.The Walking Dead Season 7 returns to our screens next month, and here's the new TWD trailer to whet your appetite. Plus, we show you how to watch The Walking Dead on any device. Also see: How to watch US Netflix in the UK.
Like all popular TV series and films there will almost certainly be people uploading The Walking Dead Season 7 torrents or hosting illegal streams of the programme. In this article we will show you the legal way to watch The Walking Dead Season 7 in the UK.
The video at the top of this page is the most recent promo video that has been released ahead of episode one. You can also see the longer season 7 trailer below, which was released at Comic Con.
In the UK The Walking Dead is shown on Fox UK. If you're a Sky or Virgin Media customer you will have this channel as part of your subscription, shown on channel 124 on Sky, and 157 and 199 on Virgin, and you'll be able to watch live or catch up with episodes using the associated mobile apps. If you don't subscribe to either of these services, we'll look at a few other ways you can watch The Walking Dead Season 7 online below.
If you are a BT Broadband customer with BT TV as part of your subscription you will have free access to AMC, which is the UK version of the US channel that will be used to broadcast The Walking Dead Season 7. The Walking Dead will not be shown on AMC UK, but AMC UK will broadcast Fear The Walking Dead. BT TV customers can buy The Walking Dead episodes from the BT store.
If you are a TalkTalk Essentials TV or Plus TV customer you'll have a YouView box through which you can stream The Walking Dead Season 7. You'll need to buy an Entertainment Boost, which adds Fox, Watch, Comedy Central, Dsicovery, Sky 1, Sky Living and more to your account for an extra £5 a month (for three months; £10 thereafter).
Now TV is a subscription-based service much like Netflix and Amazon Prime, and our preferred method of watching The Walking Dead Season 7 online if you do not subscribe to Sky or Virgin.
In order to watch The Walking Dead Season 7 online through Now TV you will need to subscribe to the £6.99 Entertainment Pass, which gives you access to 13 paid-TV channels not available on Freeview, including Fox UK. You also get Sky1, Sky Living, Sky Atlantic, GOLD, Comedy Channel, Sky Arts, ITV Encore, MTV, Discovery, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr, Disney Channel and abc studios.
Now TV also offers more than 250 on-demand TV boxsets, plus catch-up facilities. As a bonus, previous seasons of The Walking Dead are available for those who are only just getting into the series.
You don't need a Sky subscription to watch Now TV; nor do you need a Now TV box - apps are available for Chromecast, PlayStation, Xbox, Roku, LG smart TVs, Windows and Mac, and iOS and Android.
How to watch The Walking Dead Season 7 online: Amazon Prime Instant Video customers
The Walking Dead Season 7 will be available through Amazon Prime Instant Video but, sadly, not as part of your subscription. Based on the prices it is currently charging for Season 6, you'll pay £1.89 per episode (or £2.49 in HD), or you can buy the entire season for £19.99 (SD; £24.99 HD).Look at the websites of big laptop-makers and you¡¯ll find bold images of laptops designed to look like the future of the form. They¡¯re impossibly slim, made of the same expensive materials as a top-end phone and cost a packet. Also see: Best laptops 2016
The HP Envy 15 is a laptop for those who don¡¯t want to buy into the new order of ever-slimmer, ever-lighter, fancier machines. It¡¯s a practical, reasonably powerful laptop that¡¯s just right for those looking to retire their desktop PC, but want to do so with a degree of style.
The HP Envy 15 shows laptops don¡¯t have to be either a) big and guileless or b) very slim and light. It¡¯s a now-unfashionable 15.6-inch screen laptop, but slimmer, lighter and more attractive than the dreaded style-free Dell work laptop many of you may have memories of using.
It doesn¡¯t try to be perilously light, but does have a sleek all-aluminium frame, making the HP Envy 15 simply much nicer to look at and touch than some.It¡¯s nothing like the aluminium HP Spectre 13, though. The Envy 15¡¯s look is more conventional, it just has that premium edge often missing from 15.6-inch machines. 13-inch models earmark much of the industry¡¯s design effort. Saying that, the chromed hinge does inject a touch of flashiness.
We have been using the HP Envy 15 out and about on occasion it¡¯ll fit in a rucksack and at 1.93kg won't kill your shoulders in 10 minutes ¡ª but this feels like a laptop that is only going to leave the home or office on special occasions. We'd recommend a 13-inch laptop if you want something to carry around all day.
That it is significantly thinner than a full-on performance or gaming laptop makes the HP Envy 15 much better-suited to being carted around the house, though. This year marks a bit of a modernisation for the Envy series too: this laptop has finally dropped its optical drive.
Sure, some might moan, but it has no place in a laptop that¡¯s trying to shed some dowdy bulk from the traditional 15-inch laptop frame. See all laptop reviews.
The other little modern tweak is the USB-C connector, on the right side. We¡¯re starting to see these added to most mid-range and higher laptops, as a standard slowly becoming common among mobile devices.
As you¡¯d hope of a slightly larger laptop, the HP Envy 15 has all the ¡®standard¡¯ connections too. You get three USB 3.0 ports, a full-size SD card reader and a full-size HDMI port. The one missing port is an Ethernet socket, but you could get hold of a USB-C or USB Ethernet adapter if you need one.
Earlier I described the Envy 15 as quite a traditional laptop, but it is modern in some very important ways. Also see: Best budget laptops 2016.
The screen is another. It¡¯s a 1080p display, which does make the pixels much more apparent than a 13-inch screen if you look for them, but it¡¯s IPS LCD display rather than a TN one. TN screens look quite bad from an angle, and larger laptops have held onto that tech longer than smaller ones because affordable IPS LCD panels of this size just aren¡¯t quite as plentiful.
It¡¯s a glossy, non-touch screen, with a character closer to the display of a tablet than an older 15-inch laptop. This is a good thing, by the way.
The HP Envy 15¡¯s panel is decent rather than stellar, though. Its colours are a little undersaturated, covering just 57.5 per cent of the sRGB colour gamut. This may not seem great for a laptop costing £799, but it¡¯s worth remembering that for that price you also get a top-end CPU. One of the trendier-design models with this processor might cost as much as £1200.