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Windows 10 behaving sluggish if at all after an hour
Ever since either Sep. 29th or 30th, my laptop's been sluggish and sometimes entirely unresponsive.
I can get it to somewhat behave for about an hour by restarting, but sometimes it gets so bad I can't restart normally and must manually power off the laptop.
All I'm usually running in the foreground is Chrome, but Chrome/File Explorer/other applications are often going unresponsive, attempting to open the Start Menu/Task Manager/other Windows features either take several minutes or don't happen at all. In addition, pages on Chrome are taking near-dial up time to load, with Chrome claiming "Waiting on cache".
I have tried:
CCleaner to clean up excess files and clear basic Registry issues
Malware Bytes (came up with nothing)
Windows Memory Diagnostic (I can't seem to find the log files in event viewer besides one saying the test was run).
sfc/scannow (came up with nothing)
Kaspersky virus scan (claimed it would take 3 days, so only got 1/4 done with the scan since my comp was slow enough without the scan)
Disk Defrag (Only got to pass 7 after 8 hours).
That's everything I could think to try, and I'm between jobs so getting a professional isn't an option atm.
Laptop specs:
Samsung Series 7 Chronos (NP700Z5AH)
Windows 10
Intel Core i7, 8Gb Ram 1Tb HDD
Intel HD 4000/Nvidia GeForce GT 640M
Any help is greatly appreciated, I need the laptop to continue job hunting.