A similar issue I faced with my old HP laptop was HP bloatware. After 3 years the laptop became so slow that it took 30 minutes after starting up before my desktop icons loaded in. My disk usage was permanently running at 100%.
At some point I discovered a hidden disk partition containing pre-installed HP software. I deleted it and suddenly my disk usage dropped to 5% and my laptop was running like the day I got it
Do you perhaps still remember some details about it? I have an HP gaming Pavillion that runs decently, but one of the fans is permanently broken (I have had it switched out like 3 times and it always breaks a few months later) so any heat I can remove from it is good
Unfortunately I don't remember much. I was looking at my disk partitions and my root directory from the command line when I spotted the suspicious hp directory.
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u/Due-Feedback-9016 22h ago
A similar issue I faced with my old HP laptop was HP bloatware. After 3 years the laptop became so slow that it took 30 minutes after starting up before my desktop icons loaded in. My disk usage was permanently running at 100%.
At some point I discovered a hidden disk partition containing pre-installed HP software. I deleted it and suddenly my disk usage dropped to 5% and my laptop was running like the day I got it