Hello. My laptop is an xps17 l702x and I'm experiencing weird freezing. Whenever I'm doing something like browsing windows explorer, right-clicking on files and folders, copying, pasting the window itself freezes for a second (except the cursor and other windows). Of course, freezing occurs when browsing the internet as well. When playing games, the freezes sometimes stop the audio even. I reinstalled Windows, updated drivers but nothing has helped. When monitoring with Resource Monitor, there is nothing strange happening there. Also have checked for any malware, but found none.
It's pretty obvious that it's not happening randomly. It occurs only when executing actions (not always, but pretty often). I have not made any major changes, nor installed anything new, the problem gradually showed up. First it happened while playing Skyrim and World of Warcraft, but did not occur in other games. Now it happens everywhere, including Windows.
I have no clue what could be causing this and any help in finding out the culprit will be appreciated.