New laptop running unusually slow

[bl167]

Hi all,
I have just bought a new HP Pavilion 15 laptop (8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Intel i7 8550u) and it seems to be running slower than my older laptop which had a much worse processor. Multitasking is hard and everything just feels incredibly hard work to do. When I check task manager I almost always find the disk usage at 100%, so I was wondering if it was to do with that. I have deleted some of the bloatware it came with, I've already done all the initial windows updates and drive updates - still seems to be the same. Is it the HDD not being a SSD?
Thanks in advance!

 

[BadAsAl]

The whole reason the laptop is slow is due to it limiting out on the hard drive.
Can you do a clean boot and see if it still does it?
If it is fine on a clean boot then you need to start enabling things until it starts doing it again. Then you will know the culprit.

 

[BadAsAl]

Also check this out: http/www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3267507/fix-100-disc-usage-system-service.html

 

[bl167]

I did the System Service fix and so far things seem a lot better, so I will see if that lasts. Thank you very much!