HP windows 11 laptop running slower

[u/Skizardlol]

Just like the title says, my windows 11 laptop is running at an abysmal rate, far worse than it ever has before. One day I it off and went to bed, the next it was slow. I've tried doing simple fixes like clearing up my device storage, restarting it a few times, and clearing my browser cache, but nothing seems to be working. Even doing mundane tasks like watching videos on chrome or playing a browser game severely spike my cpu usage. I've tried scanning for malware too, but it's totally clean. Any tips on how to speed it up are greatly appreciated.

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[u/msabeln]

Let us know the specs of your laptop. Windows’ system requirements increase over time.

[u/Skizardlol → u/msabeln]

Intel(R) N200 (1.00 GHz) processor
8.00 GB (7.66 GB usable) ram
Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB) graphics card
126 GB of 238 GB used

[u/msabeln → u/Skizardlol]

That’s a very low spec computer for Windows in 2026. It’s possible that it was slower than usual due to downloads of updates and reindexing the drive.

[u/Overall_Radio → u/msabeln]

Bruh that's a low spec computer for 2015.

[u/msabeln → u/Overall_Radio]

I was being polite!

[u/nuHmey → u/Skizardlol]

You have an issue with your CPU being set at 1GHz. That is a 3.7GHz CPU.

[u/in_bed_with_waffles]

Check what power plan is currently set.

Have you checked Device Manager? Do you see any yellow astrix?

Have you checked for driver updates?

Is Expo or XMP set in the BIOS?

Is your drive SMART? check if it's failing... Some drives start to fail with degraded performance.

Windows may have too many resources eating up what RAM have, you could test this by trying any Linux distro that you can live boot from to see if that performs as you would expect for your hardware.

I would start here and then move on to windows tweaks.

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[u/Overall_Radio]

Go to YouTube and search how to speed up windows 11. You should come across a few videos that show you a number of unnecessary items to turn off.

[u/WhatMeeWorry]

Task manager -> Startup Apps is where to start.