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    Question Brand-new laptop is super slow

    T Thanks for your reply. I posted an update with what fixed it for us! But regardless, to answer your query, we removed all bloatware when we first booted it up and she's had it 3 days!
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    Question Brand-new laptop is super slow

    Update: We went into the Performance tab in Task Manager and under CPU, it showed only 1 out of a total of 16 cores which struck us as odd. Device Manager showed all 16 cores and so we went into MSCONFIG -> Boot -> Advanced -> Uncheck "Number of Processors" and then restarted. That fixed the...
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    Question Brand-new laptop is super slow

    Hi, everyone. My girlfriend bought an ASUS ZenBook Q425MA laptop 3 days ago. It's got 16 gigs of DDR5 RAM, a 1TB SSD and the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H SoC. The issue she's facing is that it is REALLY slow. The CPU usage is constantly in the high 70% (which is presumably what's causing it to be...