Windows 10 Extremely slow performance in a gaming laptop after being idle

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Tanner Gremmert

I have a weird problem that's been happening for a0 long time. I've never really found a solution so I thought I'd ask here.


Whenever I leave my laptop for a few minutes while powered on and then come back to it, it becomes really slow, almost unusable since it responds sluggishly. Programs freeze up and it is generally a pain to operate. I then am forced to hold down the power button to force it to turn off, then I can use it normally again until it goes idle


My laptop specs are:

8 GB RAM

Intel I7 7700HQ at 2.80 Ghz

GTX 1050 Ti


Note: nothing slows down when I am actively doing loads of multitasking, but when I leave my computer with loads of programs open and then come back to it, it becomes extremely slow and unresponsive. Does anyone know why and how to fix it?


I'm thinking that it could be a hardware issue, but I'm really not sure

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