New laptop running slow, why?

Hello, i recently purchased a HP Paviilion i5 4288u, 8gb ram laptop. It's about a month old and all of a sudden decides to freeze up quite a bit especially during burning media conversions, when this was first purchased, disks took about 14 mins, now their taking close to a hour. In the mean time while conversion is in progress the laptop freezes up and you cant use it
What is going on and how do i solve it?

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