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ColtonBrown
Bronze Contributor
Apr 22, 2025

Slow Program Launches and Delays on Samsung Win 11 Laptop

Hi there. Having gotten great help on a BSOD on a desktop machine here, I am now looking to solve a slowdown on my Samsung Win 11 Laptop. I have filled in the 'Second System Specs' for this laptop that has an i7 at 2.8GHz and 16 GB RAM and 1TB SSD.
When I use this system it will sometimes be so slow as to take 10-20 seconds to launch a local program and just seems to freeze. No BSODs that I have seen...
What else may I tell you to get a look at what's going on here.....machine has run great until last month or two....Defender is enabled and I have Norton 360 and Malware Bytes running for protection....it seemed to handle the protection fine. Open to guidance.
Thanks for looking!
Phil

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    BernieSanders
    Iron Contributor
    Apr 22, 2025

    1. Disable Samsung background services

    1. Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc to open the Task Manager.

    2. Switch to the “Startup” tab.

    3. Disable all Samsung related services (especially “Samsung Update”, “Samsung Cloud”, etc.)

    2. Adjust the power plan

    1.powershell
    powercfg -setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c # Toggle to high performance mode
    3.: Temporarily disable Windows Defender

    1. Open the “Virus and Threat Protection” settings.

    2. Click “Manage Settings”.

    3. Temporarily disable “Real-time protection”.