[dba-Tech] Slow Dell

[Susan Harkins]

Thank you -- that's a lot of info!  I'll try to get to that today and share
results. 

Susan H. 
Windows 10 has some things you can turn off to reduce the cludge:
-The News & Interests "feature" MS snuck in. Right click on the taskbar and
click on it, etc. "Turn off" 
-"notifications" and "suggestions" in settings - personalization and
settings - system/notifications.
-Set Edge to the "focused" start page or just a different web page
altogether like duckduckgo.com Clear browser caches every day easiest way
for all 3 biggies is Ctrl-Shift-Del then choose everything except history
and proceed.
Remove any free antivirus, updaters, password managers, web protection apps
except Microsoft's in Settings - Apps, I fact you can remove a lot of those
preloaded apps and suffer no loss. Everything is always available to
download again in the Microsoft Store.
Never run any "driver updaters" other than Dell's Support Assist that came
with it.

John Bartow
WinHaven IT Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech <dba-tech-bounces+jbartow=winhaven.net at databaseadvisors.com>
On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 8:44 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
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Subject: [dba-Tech] Slow Dell

I have a recently purchased Dell laptop - nothing fancy. It was fine for a
few weeks, but it has continued to slow down until I'm having the same
problems with the one I replaced. 

 

I get a lot of freeze ups that take a while to resolve. Sometimes I get that
"whatever isn't responding.." message. 

 

I use Edge because originally it was fast - not it crawls. 

 

I run MalwareBytes occasionally - it shows nothing. 

 

Any thoughts? 

 

Susan H. 

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