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Plan
Premium
Country
USA
Device
HP Laptop
Operating System
Windows 10
My Question or Issue
The windows desktop application is very slow almost to the point of being unresponsive. I always have to resort to my web browser which is less efficient than the application designed for Spotify specificially.
Hi @kileyk
Have you tried performing a complete reinstall of the application by following this guide.
Let me know if that fixes the problem for you.
Have a great day.
I tried this many times, it never works. All it does is make the app startup a bit more quick a few times.
The rest of my pc is quick. The spotify application is**bleep**.
Stop adding features and work on your basic functionality!!!
As soon as I have the heart, I will switch to a competitor.
Hey there @Revontisk,
Thanks for reaching out and for confirming what you've done so far!
Try these steps:
Paste it into your regular C hard drive.
From your hard drive C, launch spotify.exe.
Let us know what happens after that and if it still isn't better, give us:
Keep us posted 🙂 🙂
Thanks, that helps. For now.
There is no application on my computer I have to do this to though. Please get this fixed for real.
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