BRAND NEW Inspiron 15 3000 is so slow it’s unusable

This is definitely bad news for me then.  Maybe I should just smash this thing.  

If it has any of the three combinations of performance killer:

i3 CPU, 4G RAM, spinning hard drive,

That's the largest portion of the issue.  Windows 10 needs 8G and an SSD to perform acceptably.

The ONLY reason 4G/HDD configurations are sold is low up front price.

What's your exact model number? (3000 is just the series)

I agree with ejn63... If your system only has 4 GB of RAM installed, think about upgrading it to at least 8 GB. 4 GB is just barely enough for basic tasks with Windows 10. (Check the memory usage under task manager). And if you don't have a SSD installed, think about upgrading to that as well. The OEM hard drives tend to be very slow as the original one in my Inspiron took almost 2 minutes to boot to the desktop, where older systems upgraded from Windows 7 took much less time. Once you've upgraded those two items, the system will perform much better.

And just to throw it out there, investing in a system that costs more* usually means that it will perform better and will have better specs right out of the box (without user upgrades), and that it won't become outdated/obsolete as quick. If you buy another brand for about the same price as what you paid for your Dell, you'll likely experience similar performance with that system as well.

* Inspiron 3000 series are your lower end systems containing an Intel Core i3 processor and hardware configurations for basic everyday tasks, though they usually allow for enough headroom for RAM upgrades as well as SSD upgrades to help improve system performance and extend its usefulness.

I have the exact issue with my wife's laptop (Votros 14 3000). It is so frustrating arggg. Takes about 5 minutes to open a web page, if it opens at all.  Too slow to use any of the dynostics.  I'll never buy another laptop from Dell.  Pure junk! 

Change Display Resolution

Hi Everyone

I suffered a week with slow performance and was very frustrated. After alot of research I didn't find any troubleshoot for this.

Finally in display setting I noticed my laptop scale was 125% (recommended) and next i noticed it's display resolution was 1920x1080 (recommended). Then and there I changed display resolution to 1366x768 with scale 100% (recommended). Believe me my laptop performance was increased. Though it's not as fast as laptop with SSD. Still it was a bit slow and then in BIOS I change SATA/NVMe operation to AHCI/NVMe which was in RAID On by default. Now it's working so smooth. 

• Setting> System> Display> Screen Resolution (select 1366x768 or 1360x768)

• BIOS> Storage> SATA/NVMe> AHCI/NVMe

Note: after changing SATA/NVMe operation OS will not load so you need to do first boot in Safe Mode.

Hope this will help you!

Thanks! 

I applied the first trick  and now my laptop is not hanging everytime. It was so frustrating since last 1 month that the laptop used to stop repsonding after every click for few seconds!!

I do not know where the problem lies!! And it is not that laptop was performing very well earlier, there were performance issues but last 1 month has been terrible. I had tried everything but nothing happened. So, I have done the following @Shahid Ansari  thanks for posting here:

• Setting> System> Display> Screen Resolution (select 1366x768 or 1360x768)

Next I am also thinking of upgrading to 8gb RAM because windows 11 is consuming 89% of 3.4 gb of available RAM.

I have the same issue too. It is very frustrated. I bought it then can't use it. I usually use my company laptop instead. Each time I use this dell Inspiron 15-3000, it runs super slow and get freeze. I wonder why a brand name like Dell produced such products like that in markets.

Same problem, dead laptop 

distributor told it will work after sometime

worst laptop

I have the same issue, New Dell lap top, too slow to use since day 1. It was updated to widiws 10, and no sign of improvement. Actually it became even  more slower.  Factory reset.... doesn't help either. Literally the laptop never been useful. It is very very slow to browse, or open a file. It would be faster to use my phone or drive 1 mile away to  library and use their PCs. 

@ejn63​ could you provide a list of stuff to install, buy, uninstall etc. bc im having such a hard time and i regret my purchase so much.  i spent close to 400 at best buy cuz they said this was a "good touch screen gamin laptop". the touchscreen keeps tapping in random spots, 2 of 3 usb ports refuse to work AFTER bringing it to tech geek or wtvrtf they called. pls help lol

If the system isn't working at the screen level, and the USB ports are not working -- that's a job for either  Best Buy or Dell to resolve under warranty.

If you're looking to turn this into any level of gaming notebook -- that's not going to happen no matter what you throw at it.  Any notebook that's truly capable of gaming is going to start at bare minimum $1,000 and anything capable of more than casual gaming -- add 50%  to that.

Same problem with my Dell. Waste of money