CPU usage not going above 22% or .48GHz making pc run really slow

[Benjamin Crouch]

Hi,Lately, I have been facing this issue that my processor does not run at its usual speed. It works totally fine for a few moments after I wake it from sleep but after 1-2 minutes, the processor cannot clock above 0.48 GHz while the base speed is 2.2 GHz. This makes my laptop very laggy and sometimes even simple processes, like using word docs, excel can't be performed. Things I have tried based on the other threads that I could find here:1. Running a boot time hardware diagnostics for understanding if the battery, adapter or processor is at fault. But I could not find any issue.2.

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