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asterose

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    Slow laptop when plugged in but not on battery
    « on: August 28, 2016, 05:43:34 PM »
    I have an Acer Aspire ES1-512 x64-based PC (laptop) with Windows 8.1 6.3.9600 N/A Build 9600.  When it is using the battery (not plugged in) it is fine, but recently it began to behave very, very slowly whenever I plugged it in (while charging or NOT charging the battery).  Is there a setting I inadvertently set to make this happen?  Please help!  It's running about 10 times more slowly when it's plugged in.  Thank you.

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    Re: Slow laptop when plugged in but not on battery
    « Reply #1 on: August 28, 2016, 06:09:15 PM »
    Wild guess, but based on a real happenstance.
    Your  power mains have a high level of noise interference with your laptop.
    Or, the charger is going bad and feeds trashy power to the system.
    Last thing you might find is  -------  The battery!

    Does it run without the battery?


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      Re: Slow laptop when plugged in but not on battery
      « Reply #2 on: August 31, 2016, 08:17:02 PM »
      Actually, after I posted I went home and looked at all my settings, and indeed, I finally came across one setting which opted for maximum speed/spare the disk (which minimizes speed).   When using the battery, it opted for maximum speed, but when it was plugged in, it opted for minimum speed.  I reset it and it immediately began to behave properly again.  I have no idea how that happened, I certainly did not do it knowingly.  Someone may have hacked into my system.