like how tf am I supposed to know. No, he doesn’t even show me the computer on so I can check task manager or anything. Forgot the charger in another state. He just wants to know why his, currently dead, computer runs slow.
It could literally be anything causing this. Too much stuff running in the background, maybe one task is super intense, overheating, storage is full, idfk. I hate being known as the tech person.
A common reason that laptops become slow is that the thermal paste on the CPU dries up and then the bios underclocks the CPU to stop overheating. Replace the thermal paste and then the underclocking stops.
tysm for the advice, when I can actually turn it on I’ll check if its overheating/underclocking. Hopefully repasting isn’t too much of a pita
Also, if it is a budget laptop, replacing the hard disk with a solid state will make it like 10 times faster.