[dba-Tech] Slow Dell

[Rocky Smolin]

Just means whatever was running before that slowed it is not running now.
But it will again, I'll bet a dollar.  I'd keep that task manager open and
minimized.

Maybe it was doing a windows update? Windows has an update history - I
don't know how to get it off hand - but it's date and time stamped.

r

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:48 AM Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think my system is reading my email -- the thing is running
> lickety-split fast this morning and I haven't even started! 😊
>
> 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.
>
> 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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