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MeowingCows said:
Norton could be the source of your slowness if it automatically tries to scan files that are accessed by Windows (i.e. when you open Chrome, it scans out Chrome for baddies). Superfetch is a Windows background process.

SSD or HDD, do you know?
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I’m not sure, but it’s a laptop and when I bought it, it was with the understanding of for streaming and gaming, so I would assume SSD?

Also, I don’t think it’s Norton because I’ve tried disabling it and it still does it.
 
cyrocksmypants said:
I’m not sure, but it’s a laptop and when I bought it, it was with the understanding of for streaming and gaming, so I would assume SSD?

Also, I don’t think it’s Norton because I’ve tried disabling it and it still does it.
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If you go to the Disk page in Task Manager, the model number of the drive name should give you a good clue if it's SSD or not. It probably is.

It's primarily just Chrome/browsers being problematic, right?
 
MeowingCows said:
If you go to the Disk page in Task Manager, the model number of the drive name should give you a good clue if it's SSD or not. It probably is.

It's primarily just Chrome/browsers being problematic, right?
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It’s most notable in games, actually. Higher graphic games like Blair Witch or the Sims than lower graphic like Oxenfree or Civ.

But it’s never been a problem before, so I know at least until just recently, it’s been able to handle them just fine.
 
cyrocksmypants said:
It’s most notable in games, actually. Higher graphic games like Blair Witch or the Sims than lower graphic like Oxenfree or Civ.

But it’s never been a problem before, so I know at least until just recently, it’s been able to handle them just fine.
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I'm somewhat convinced it's something with the Windows install that a clean wipe will fix, but I'm sure you don't want to do that due to the amount of work involved. Still possible it's a thermal throttle for the CPU, but unlikely on something that new.
 
MeowingCows said:
I'm somewhat convinced it's something with the Windows install that a clean wipe will fix, but I'm sure you don't want to do that due to the amount of work involved. Still possible it's a thermal throttle for the CPU, but unlikely on something that new.
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What would a clean wipe entail?
 
cyrocksmypants said:
What would a clean wipe entail?
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Back up all your data, go into Settings > Recovery > run the full wipe and reinstall process. You'll have to reinstall any software you want and put your data back on, but what will be left is a completely-clean, barebones Windows install with no BS.
 
Check your chrome addons, something could be installed there by accident that's slowing it up.
 
Sounds like it could also be the SSD starting to fail Run the windows disk program to check for damage. Don't know how to find it in Windows 10 though. Of course that makes a backup a good idea as well.
 
I’m doing a fresh windows recovery. It says it will reinstall Windows like new, but should keep all of my current files. Only apps and such will be deleted.
 
cyrocksmypants said:
I’m doing a fresh windows recovery. It says it will reinstall Windows like new, but should keep all of my current files. Only apps and such will be deleted.
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See where that takes you. It may or may not help, seriously, there's just no way to know without doing it.
 
Most manufacturers have a hardware diagnostics you can run at startup from the BIOS. That runs pre-boot before Windows so if it's hardware it won't likely won't pass the diagnostics. If it does pass likely OS or something installed on your machine causing it.

Also can run a chkdsk on your C: drive which will search for any damaged or corrupt Windows files and repair them. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ndows-10/26fe8552-a553-400f-ac86-7f71d147df9d
 
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