My Asus laptop (windows 10) is unbelievably laggy.
Almost all programs take forever to open, photoshop's brush lag has made it unusable, games have such a bad framerate that the jerky movements give me motion sickness, and even the most basic file struggles to load.
Any attempts at fixing the issue so far have only served to make it worse to the point where now the speakers are periodically crackling for no reason when I watch a video whereas they were ok yesterday.
Oddly enough, Chrome is working fine though. It seems to be the only thing that has no lag or slowdown whatsoever. Even opening it is fine. It looks like it is the only thing about my laptop that is working properly!
All my drivers are up to date, my hard drive has been optimized (whatever that means.... i'm not sure I just followed some tutorials that were given to me that were supposed to help), virus scanner and malware scan came up clean, and I even ran a disk check for errors. not sure if it did anything but after that one is when my speakers started acting up. They have since stopped crackling (something like 5 hours later) but it was pretty bad for a few hours there.
I would think that if my laptop was dying, all my programs would be slowing down. I'm not sure why Chrome is working like new so I figured maybe there was something else going on.
Please keep in mind that if you need any additional information from me, I will need instructions on how to obtain that information as I get really REALLY lost trying to navigate my control panel blindly. I get that it makes me look sad and uneducated but I would rather know where I am supposed to be going and get it done right than turn the wrong way, hit a wall, and waste a lot of people's time.
Almost all programs take forever to open, photoshop's brush lag has made it unusable, games have such a bad framerate that the jerky movements give me motion sickness, and even the most basic file struggles to load.
Any attempts at fixing the issue so far have only served to make it worse to the point where now the speakers are periodically crackling for no reason when I watch a video whereas they were ok yesterday.
Oddly enough, Chrome is working fine though. It seems to be the only thing that has no lag or slowdown whatsoever. Even opening it is fine. It looks like it is the only thing about my laptop that is working properly!
All my drivers are up to date, my hard drive has been optimized (whatever that means.... i'm not sure I just followed some tutorials that were given to me that were supposed to help), virus scanner and malware scan came up clean, and I even ran a disk check for errors. not sure if it did anything but after that one is when my speakers started acting up. They have since stopped crackling (something like 5 hours later) but it was pretty bad for a few hours there.
I would think that if my laptop was dying, all my programs would be slowing down. I'm not sure why Chrome is working like new so I figured maybe there was something else going on.
Please keep in mind that if you need any additional information from me, I will need instructions on how to obtain that information as I get really REALLY lost trying to navigate my control panel blindly. I get that it makes me look sad and uneducated but I would rather know where I am supposed to be going and get it done right than turn the wrong way, hit a wall, and waste a lot of people's time.