Windows 10: Window 10 Laptop Suddenly Running Very Slow

Greetings, I have a fairly decent laptop with Windows 10 that has been working fine up until yesterday when my laptop sudden started being very slow. When I click on my folders, it would take up to 5secs for the folders window to pop up, which normally would be fairly instant. Also it would say "Working on it" for a good while trying to load the folders. Not only that but all my programs run very slow as well. I do a lot of photo and video editing and find it hard to now work while my computer is so sluggish. I have googled this problem and tried a few solutions but still have this problem. I have tried to make a new user and see if its still slow, which it sadly is. As well as starting in safe mode. Which is slightly faster but not as fast as before. I have a good amount of disk space left, about 500Gb out of 2Tb. I have tried to run a disk clean up as well a close some programs running in the background My laptop's performance is set to turbo I did run Malwarebytes a few times but always came up with nothing Any other things I should try? Thank you so much

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Lenovo laptop suddenly slow

I have a new Lenovo E580 laptop (bought January 2019) which suddenly started to run very slow. I have especially noticed it with build times in Visual Studio and loading times for a local website in IIS.

I have tried to reinstall Windows 10 Pro by formatting the entire computer but it’s still slow.

Laptop spec:

• Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
  
• CPU: i7-8550U 2.00GHz
  
• 16 GB RAM
  
• 512 SSD
  

Software where I really notice the slowness:

• Visual Studio Community 2019 Version 16.3.9
  
• IIS to Windows 10
  

I have tried to setup an older laptop with the same software installed as the new laptop, to compare the loading times. The old laptop has a very similar spec. (i7-4700MQ 2.40GHz, 16GB RAM, 256 SSD). The load time for a local website on the new laptop is 78 seconds where on the old is 30 seconds. On the new laptop it used to be around 30 seconds as well.

It’s not just Visual Studio and IIS that is slow it’s the entire laptop. I thought it would be fixed by reinstalling Windows but there were no improvements. I suspect it’s a hardware issue, but I don’t get any errors, and everything looks fine.

Does anyone have suggestions to what I can try to pinpoint this issue or is it better to contact Lenovo support, as the new laptop is still under warranty?

 

Why has my Laptop suddenly started running slow




















OK have done the above. Hardware seems fine, no?

PS I have set Performance Manager running. It said it is "Collecting data for 60 seconds..." however my computer is running SO slowly that after what is now 15 minutes (and counting) it has not spat out any results (!).

 

Why has my Laptop suddenly started running slow

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