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Laptop is suddenly very slow

Hello, Last night my laptop was perfectly fine, I could browse the web with many open tabs and work in audio editing software.

Today when I turned it on it was ridicously slow. Meanwhile I restarted it two times and it's a little bit better, but still almost unusable. I didn't update Windows recently (so I can't even go back to the previous version), I can't recognize the source of this problem.

It's a Lenovo 15ARH05 with Windows 10 Home AMD Ryzen 7 4800H with Radeon Graphics 2.90 GHz Processor 16,0 GB RAM

I ran Lenovo Vantage scans, I ran the anti-virus scans, the scannow command on command line, defragmented the disk, cleaned unused files, searched for hardware errors on the disk, there are no temperature, CPU or GPU spikes.Everything seems to be ok, but the laptop is really slow, even when opening folders. When I turned it on initially today even the mouse cursor would take seconds to move.

I would be really grateful if anyone can help or give me some tips, thank you!

EDIT: The scans took a long time, at least the anti virus one I’m sure because it’s usually faster. Downloads and moving files to external drives seem to process at a normal rate

EDIT: Tried chk dsk /r on startup and it said it would take two days. Eventually the time started going down fast and I think it will end up taking some hours to do this but nothing ridiculous.

EDIT: It got back to normal after I uninstalled and reinstalled the GPU drivers, but now some hours later it’s getting kinda slower again

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