Laptop recently got very slow?

[DougMacArthur]

I've had my current laptop (an HP Omen) for about a year now. So far, I've had few issues (rare, with my experience with HP) and the specs have made it quite smooth to use compared to my other PCs. It has 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 256GB SSD, i7 CPU rated for 2.6 GHz and a 960M, so I can occasionally use it to play games if I'm away from my desktop for a while.

Recently, within the last week or so, it has gotten quite slow and I cannot determine the culprit. Webpages load in piece by piece, hovering over a button takes a couple of seconds to get a response, etc. I was playing Battlefield 1 just fine -albeit on relatively low settings- getting 50+ FPS, but now it is unplayable even if I reduce the settings to make the screen look like a couple of squares while I'm playing (where the FPS drops to below 10).

My internet is fine and my CPU and memory usage seem to be fine, but I don't really know what normal is. CPU stays below 10% and RAM below 25% on idle. If I run a game of BF the RAM jumps to 75% but still that doesn't seem like an issue.

I tried cleaning up background processes and whatnot, looking for anything suspicious, but found nothing. I'm currently running malwarebytes but to be honest I'm not expecting it to find anything. Anyone have an idea of what's going on or a better way to run some diagnostics?

Thanks.

 

[viveknayyar007]

Hello DougMacArthur

A few things you can try to resolve the issue can be:

> Running Disk Defragmentation

> Running a free PC Optimzation tool. (E.g. Ccleaner, Ashampoo WinOptimizer)

> Checking if Windows has all the latest updates installed. However, if you started experiencing the lags after some of the updates, removing them might do the trick.

> If none of the above is able to resolve the problem, you can try Restoring Windows 10 to an Earlier Point, i.e. to the date when it worked fine.

Feel free to report back for any further assistance.

Cheers!!