I've been trying to figure this out all day and am at the end of my ropes. I have a gaming PC so I thought this laptop was just a bit slower, but then I went to Youtube and saw just how bad it was. The video was lagging and stuttering like crazy, and not simply buffering, the audio was still playing fine. That wasn't the craziest thing; if I moved the cursor at all, the animation completely locked up.
I went to task manager to see what was happening. Right now, as I type this, the CPU is 97% and keeps bouncing around. It's not just one or two major sources either, it's hundreds of tiny ones. Disk just went up to 100% for no reason. Memory is 66%. The only thing I have done is start up, connect my Microsoft account for Windows Defender, and run Ninite to get Chrome and other basic programs. I haven't even ran any of them other than Chrome.
Things I've tried:
- Removing every bit of bloatware I can find and disabling any app.
- Running Windows Update Troubleshooter
- Reinstallation of Windows
I don't even know. Here's some screenshots of the task manager. This is after completely resetting the laptop. The only thing I've installed is Chrome, and funny enough, it isn't even in the top 10 tasks hogging resources most of the time.