Is Your PC Slow? Find the Cheap Fix in Seconds
A slow PC usually gets one of two answers: “buy a new one” or a wall of jargon about cores, gigabytes and drive types. Most of the time the real fix is small and cheap, if only someone would tell you which one. PC Health Check reads your computer’s specs and gives you that answer in plain English. Find out in seconds whether more RAM, an SSD or a simple restart is the cheap fix for your slow PC.
A Report You Can Share
Get a tidy HTML report on your Desktop you can email, print, or paste straight into a spreadsheet. The report opens a Summary box at the top that lists only the things worth a look, so whoever reads it (you, a family member, or the tech who fixes it) sees what matters first.
What It Does
Finds the cheap wins first
Every finding gets a colored verdict: green means fine, orange means worth a look, red means fix this first. The advice is honest about money. It tells you when adding a memory stick or swapping a spinning hard drive for an SSD is the single biggest cheap improvement, and when a processor upgrade is not worth bothering with.
Checks everything that makes a PC feel slow
| Section | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Memory (RAM) | Total GB, speed, and slots used of slots available. If there is an empty slot, it says so, because adding a stick is the cheapest noticeable speed-up. |
| Storage | Each drive as NVMe SSD, SATA SSD or spinning hard drive, with size. A spinning drive is flagged “Slow” with the upgrade explained. |
| Windows | Edition, version and build, plus time since the last restart. Windows 10 is flagged because its free security updates have ended. |
| Free space | Free GB and percent for every local drive. A nearly full drive slows Windows down and can make updates fail. |
| CPU and graphics | Processor name, cores and threads, plus the graphics adapter with its real video memory. A missing graphics driver is caught too. |
| Startup programs | How many programs launch with Windows, with the full list in the report. More than 10 earns a clean-up tip. |
| Battery | Laptops only: charge, plugged in or not, and how much of its original capacity the battery still holds. |
| Disk health (optional) | Windows’ own Healthy / Warning / Unhealthy status for each drive. Anything but Healthy means back up now. |
| Installed programs (optional) | A count of installed programs, with a suggestion to remove what you no longer use when the list gets long. |
Copy the results anywhere
The Copy summary button puts the whole results table on the clipboard as clean columns, ready for Excel, Google Sheets or an email. Click any row in the window to read its full advice.
Private and read-only
The whole check runs on your own computer. No internet, no uploads, no account, and no admin rights needed, so it works on many locked-down work PCs too. It only reads your specs and writes one report file. It never changes a setting, installs anything or “cleans” anything.
Friendly to use
A clean dark window fills its table live as each section finishes. Rest the mouse on any button for half a second and a small pop-up explains what it does. You can turn those tips off from the tray menu, and your choice is remembered.
Requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit)
- AutoHotkey v2.0.2 or newer (free from autohotkey.com)
- No administrator rights and no internet connection needed
Stop guessing: Find out in seconds whether more RAM, an SSD or a simple restart is the cheap fix for your slow PC.
