[dba-Tech] Slow Dell

[Gary Kjos]

I wonder if some Windows Update download was happening in the background.....

GK

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 10:48 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think my system is reading my email -- the thing is running lickety-split fast this morning and I haven't even started! 😊
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> Susan H.
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> Thank you -- that's a lot of info!  I'll try to get to that today and share results.
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> 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.
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> John Bartow
> WinHaven IT Consulting
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> -----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' <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Slow Dell
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> 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.
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> I get a lot of freeze ups that take a while to resolve. Sometimes I get that "whatever isn't responding.." message.
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> I use Edge because originally it was fast - not it crawls.
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> I run MalwareBytes occasionally - it shows nothing.
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> Any thoughts?
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> Susan H.
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Gary Kjos
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