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Ok, thanks for the advice and help!

Laptop mainly used for browsing (Netflix/YouTube, shopping, emails, etc.), she could almost get away with just a browser ;-) Need doesn't come into it. She's just more comfortable with Windows and wants to stick with it (and fair enough - I'm a Linux guy, but I appreciate that everyone should...

Thanks. I suspected it was the processor, but good to have that more or less confirmed. It runs a virus scan everyday, no issues. I installed and ran a Malwarebytes scan, nothing there either. Might offer to reinstall Windows for her, otherwise I guess it's time for a new computer. In that...

So I rebooted, then closed the programs that run/open automatically, leaving just the firewall/antivirus (Comodo) running. I ran WhySoSlow and it said: The CPU speed was measured at 1995 MHz CPU load/usage ranged between 11% - 81% Memory load/usage was 45% - 46% Highest application...

My wife has an HP Notebook - 15-da0034no (full specs: https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-15-da0000-laptop-pc/20395828/model/23237669/document/c06078192) which she bought just less than a year ago. For the last few months she's been having problems watching Netflix and sometimes YouTube...