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Tw0r0
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My windows laptop was having performance issues since last few days.
LAPTOP MAINTENANCE MODE ACTIVATED!
So scanned my whole system with an anti-virus, cleared unwanted data with Ccleaner, quick defragged the C drive, did system restore etc etc, still no luck.
Today I found out the reason: someone had turned the 'Power Options' to 'Power Saver'.

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  • 5
    "Someone" 🤔
  • 8
    You defragged? Your laptop has no ssd?
  • 2
    Do u want sum lunux
  • 0
    But didn't task manager show you that CPU is holding at a specific frequency? I recall power saving mode reduces max frequency for CPU
  • 1
    @gitpush It reduced freq, and also limits active cores, at least that's the behavior I've seen on my laptop
  • 0
    @gitpush CPU and RAM utilization was somewhere near 50% always so did not care much. Moreover, I only ran xampp, a text editor and mozilla firefox since the past few days (firefox was lagging pretty bad, so refreshed it too).
  • 1
    @RAZERZ my laptop is already dual-booted with linux mint. Will be shifting to linux after my current college project ends
  • 1
    @cyberlord64 i am a student. That should tell you why
  • 0
    @CrankyOldDev yes someone 😂😂😂
    Because i always run my laptop on AC power
  • 1
    @Tw0r0 me too. I got a cheapo kingston ssdnow 120GB which I got for 40$ off of ebay. I put my hard drive on an hdd caddy. Then moved the users directory, user files, desktop folder and remaining data to the hdd. Also I keep another secondary program files folder for huge applications which I rarely use but cant seem to part with (mostly games) and portable apps.
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