I got a laptop last year and it’s a HP with intel core i5 7th gen and it’s always been slow, but lately it’s been getting even slower and I had some people look at it and they said they couldn’t find anything wrong with it. Plus I just now went and closed my chrome browser and there were bing searches for Belize that I didn’t make because I don’t use bing. I’ve never used the laptop for anything but homework and the only person who had more access is a guy from a computer shop who set up the system for me because I’m not Tech savvy. I’m not sure if he did it though because he set it up a couple years ago. And non of my classmates use it because I keep it in my bag at all times and it’s password protected. The CPU or Disk will also randomly jump to 100% and I don’t know why(which is probably the reason it’s slow) Also I’m sorry if I used the wrong flair but I have no idea what they mean. Thanks for any help on my issue.
First, you have a very old cpu there, so think about just getting a newer computer if at all possible. Even a used one of a newer vintage will be fine. Second, if you can’t do that, hard drives are absurdly slow and SSDs (new digital drives) are very cheap so have that replaced.
Lots of reasons for those random times when it gets very busy and uses 100%, slowing you down. Windows does all manner of things in the background, housekeeping tasks. For instance, it indexes all the files on your drive so you can find them when you search. Chrome updates itself. Windows updates itself. Etc. All those things will improve with a newer faster machine with a faster CPU and SSD.
Finally, don’t have too many browser tabs open at once. The very newest Chrome release shows you how much memory each tab takes, and it’s frightening. Depends on the site, but more than a few take 1GB each (that’s a lot). This will easily exceed your memory, at which time Windows has to use hard drive space for the overflow, and that will slow you down a lot with a spinning hard drive.