Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows 8 => Topic started by: asterose on August 28, 2016, 05:43:34 PM
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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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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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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.