My laptop is really slow. Temperatures are fine. However the CPU seems to be throttling based off resource monitor. Task manager says CPU usage is 23% while hwmonitor says it's 90%. Why is it different
#slow laptop CPU usage
buoyant linden
tacit loom
What are the specs of the laptop?
There’s a chance you’re looking at two different CPU usages.
One good first step: open task manager ~> Startup, sort by Status and take a screenshot
tacit loom
Go to startup tab, sort by Status, THEN take a screenshot
buoyant linden
tacit loom
Right click and disable almost everything there that's enabled - Edge, Onedrive, HFSystray, Sentinel, etc
Windows Security can stay on. That's it really. Also Malwarebytes, though personally I find Windows Defender to be enough.
Then, reboot the computer
buoyant linden
Wouldn't start items not be the problem though if according to task manager it's only 12% usage? It's not going higher than 12. But hwmonitor says it's 100%
I did disable the not needed ones
tacit loom
Send a screenshot of hwmonitor's reporting of 100%
You sure you're not looking at the Max column?
buoyant linden
I found a miniunz process that according to Google can either be a Trojan or a Dell driver....
tacit loom
Google will tell you everything is a virus
buoyant linden
It went down as soon as I took picture to 91
tacit loom
Snap a pic side-by-side with task manager's reporting of CPU usage
buoyant linden
lavish loom
My laptop is really slow. Temperatures are fine. However the CPU seems to be thr...
you can use throttlestop to change your speedstep to 4.5ghz
buoyant linden
It seems normal after I did a bios update