I've been having problems for a while now, and I have been unable to figure it out. when I watched movies occasionally I would get a stutter in the video. for a while I didn't think too much about it because I figured it was maybe a disc issue or something.

but then I started noticing that it happens while watching youtube videos or listening to downloaded mp3s (or AACs)

Then it started annoying me. So I started googling, and similar posts pointed me towards the possibility that it's a Latency Issue. I downloaded LatencyMon and received plenty of errors. I even closed every application and ran it and received the same results.

for the one about power and cpu throttling... I found other forums with that problem and people recommended turning things off in the power options, but those options were unavailable to me on Windows 10. One site even went so far as to say that if you turn of the cpu throttling the way this recommends, you could damage the laptop because of heat. But I have a heat monitor (because I own an Inspiron) and I never even reach the 90s when this happens. It can't be that.