Laptop suddenly chugging, Malwarebytes and Webroot haven't turned up any viruses or malware. Restarting several times every day to keep ahead of this.

I don't know how much of this is relevant. I basically copy pasted from steam info.

Computer Information:

Manufacturer: Alienware Model: Alienware 17 R2 Form Factor: Laptop Touch Input Detected 

Processor Information:

CPU Vendor: GenuineIntel CPU Brand: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4980HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz CPU Family: 0x6 CPU Model: 0x46 CPU Stepping: 0x1 CPU Type: 0x0 Speed: 2798 Mhz 8 logical processors 4 physical processors HyperThreading: Supported FCMOV: Supported SSE2: Supported SSE3: Supported SSSE3: Supported SSE4a: Unsupported SSE41: Supported SSE42: Supported AES: Supported AVX: Supported CMPXCHG16B: Supported LAHF/SAHF: Supported PrefetchW: Supported 

Operating System Version:

Windows 10 (64 bit) NTFS: Supported Crypto Provider Codes: Supported 311 0x0 0x0 0x0 

Video Card:

Driver: Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics 5200 DirectX Driver Name: nvldumd.dll Driver Version: 20.19.15.4835 DirectX Driver Version: 23.21.13.8871 Driver Date: 10 16 2017 OpenGL Version: 4.6 Desktop Color Depth: 32 bits per pixel Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz DirectX Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M VendorID: 0x10de DeviceID: 0x13d7 Revision: 0xa1 Number of Monitors: 1 Number of Logical Video Cards: 1 No SLI or Crossfire Detected Primary Display Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Primary Display Size: 15.04" x 8.46" (17.24" diag) 38.2cm x 21.5cm (43.8cm diag) Primary Bus: PCI Express 8x Primary VRAM: 1024 MB Supported MSAA Modes: 2x 4x 8x 

Sound card:

Audio device: Speakers (Sound Blaster Recon3D 

Memory:

RAM: 16269 Mb 

Right now I have Discord, one Google Chrome tab, Steam, and Task Manager opened. I'm using 10% CPU, 34% Memory, 0% Disk, 0% Network, and 14%GPU.

I noticed that my laptop started slowing way down about three weeks ago. It would have trouble running Chrome and a game, which wasn't the case before. The computer has crashed twice in the last two months and I've been restarting it two to three times a day for the past week or so. About 2 times out of 10 I opened Chrome it would slow the computer to a crawl with maybe 3 fps and I had to fight to close it.

I just went through and uninstalled some programs and deleted some files, which seems to have done something. I also reinstalled chrome, but performance on almost everything is still down from what it was.

Does anybody have suggestions on how I can fix this? It's getting to be a big problem, since this is my only computer and I need it for uni.

Submitted February 01, 2018 at 02:04AM by PulledPotatoes http://ift.tt/2nrC5Mo