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I turned it up to 9 in the settings and let it run several hours and it still says 0 hashes found. I wonder if my laptop is to slow to compete. It is a new Dell Inspiron not very expensive one.

Did you minimalize window in which you have got opened self-mining interface?
If yes your hash rate is droping to 10-30hp/s level and surely you won't mine anything

No I didn’t. It’s strange I can’t get my laptop to mine any but I finally got my iPhone to mine at it is mining at a consistent rate of around 4000hps. I didn’t think my phone would go that high. The laptop says max hashrate is 500hps and is operating at 100% but it never even does the hashrate speed test and it doesn’t say anything in the info box on my laptop.