Had something similar with my work laptop today. Lenovo X1 Carbon, couple of years old. Got reinstalled very recently. Been fine, but suddenly it was slow af.

Had something similar with my work laptop today. Lenovo X1 Carbon, couple of years old. Got reinstalled very recently. Been fine, but suddenly it was slow af. Near zero CPU, GPU and disk usage in Windows Task Manager, but I could feel it was burning hot, which it wasn't just 15 minutes prior. Did a reboot and all was fine again. Surely some firmware that messed up, though no idea why. Anyway, I'd start by removing crap, that goes for 3rd party anti-virus and vendor tools especially. Use something like Bulk Crap Uninstaller[1] or Revo[2], and then reinstall drivers. Totally agreed on the sad state of laptops these days. [1]: https://www.bcuninstaller.com/ https://www.bcuninstaller.com/ (open source) [2]: https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-free/ https://www.revouninstaller.com/products/revo-uninstaller-fr...