Aspire 5 A515-56 becoming irreversibly slow and requiring system reboot constantly

Specs:
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz 2.80 GHz

Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.78 GB usable) (2667 MHz)

Iris Xe Graphics

240 GB NMVe Kingston

Windows 11 Home 22H2 22621.1778

I usually use firefox with some 20 tabs open, but this computer had never been slowed by this before. Now, it becomes extremely slow, and even after closing all tabs and firefox itself, the computer is still slow. If I check task manager after this, the memory and cpu usage are always under 20%, and no one program seems to be using up the processor or the memory too much. To fix this, the laptop needs to be restarted, and this now happens several times a day.

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Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/686492/aspire-5-a515-56-becoming-irreversibly-slow-and-requiring-system-reboot-constantly

Drop Firefox it has updating issues with W11, Edge is integrated in Windows11 and you make a mistake not using Edge as your default browser, security is far better and it has the most advanced internet protocol available, even better than Chrome. You don't have a HDD and the SSD is too small, maybe getting full, how much free space do you have left on your boot drive? if <20% get a bigger NVMe M.2 SSD (1TB) or consider adding a 2.5" SATA SSD in the free HDD slot like 1-4 TB .5" Sata SSD from Samsung (870 Evo) for all your data/programs and use the Kingston as boot drive only,

Only 2.2 GB RAM used for Windows11 22H2 is not possible, are you using virtual drives? I believe you are quoting compressed RAM, you should be using 4.5GB with 3.5 GB available? Speed is OK Dual Channel, 2x 4GB DDR4.

You are fully up to date but probably need to do thorough system maintenance, open Storage Sense and scan your files, click after the scan on the Temp bin icon at the bottom of Storage Sense menu and it may find 100s GB old update files like OldDos, delete all that (can take long). Finally trim your SSD and restore your system image: Go online, make sure Internet is working and paste this line in the Command Prompt: Dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
That should complete successfully otherwise rerun. Next paste this line in the same Command Prompt window:
SFC /scannow
That repairs corrupted files that slow down the system, should end with "No integrity violations" rerun till you get that.

LucasVitora

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1207777#Comment_1207777

hello, thank you for responding. the ssd has ~98 GB of free space, so like 40% left. as for the ram, 221 MB of it are "hardware reserved". I'm not using virtual drives and I'm not sure how much of it is being used solely by windows (I got the information from the system→about page from the windows settings). I'll try the steps mentioned and will update if the problem isn't solved.

Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/comment/1207780#Comment_1207780

You need to know how much RAM is used by Windows. Open Task manager Performance tab and click on memory you should see something like this:

If your system is using much more than depicted above, you have programs running on the background like Avast and Office356 or Firefox that you need to shut down or uninstall. Please check that.

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