Nitro 5 AN515-55 Insanely Slow and Laggy, its slow and taking 95% of memory while browsing

NickPlayz

I received a Nitro 5 (AN515-55) for Christmas in 2021. It has worked great up until October of last year (2023). Lately, it has been so insanely slow and unsteady it's nearly unusable. Browsing the web alone takes up at least 95% of the memory, even whenever I close every application I can that runs in the background. Playing simple games struggles to get 4 FPS (E.G. ROBLOX Bloxburg), and it's so unsteady. It's gotten to the point I don't even bother to use it anymore, and I just deal with Edge on Xbox. I have 8GB of RAM, which I know isn't the greatest, but at least it was usable before. I've tried installing fresh versions of Windows, but it has no effect. I could play Fortnite & GTA V with at least ~100 FPS, yet now I struggle to browse with any browser (I've tried Edge, Chrome, and Opera GX). Are there any fixes that you could recommend until I purchase a gaming desktop in August? Replacing/ adding more RAM will probably be useless as I plan on getting a desktop and it's still just so unsteady. I update my drivers and everything, but it's just sitting below my desk in the meantime.

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Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/698890/nitro-5-an515-55-insanely-slow-and-laggy-its-slow-and-taking-95-of-memory-while-browsing

You have far too many programs running at the same time, these 2 browsers are competing with Edge to be your default browser, continuously updating installing more bloatware and features. Only 8GB RAM demands a "Bare Bones" system, check the Processes tab in Task Manager for non-Windows apps that you can uninstall, update BIOS and Windows. Also disable syncing and Cloud apps like One Drive/Note and trial versions of all programs pre-installed.