Your post appears to be light on details. So any guess would be that.
Bob
My laptop can easily run any game/program on maximm settings, however, only in my house. Once I leave my house, if I am in school, at a airport, in starbucks or whatever, things that usually consume 0-1% of my RAM or CPU suddenly consume about 5-10%. I have no idea what is happening, I can't even run stupid games at more than 50 fps...

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