[dba-Tech] Slow Dell

[Susan Harkins]

Last Windows update was in October, which is kind of surprising. I do keep the task manager open, but I don't always understand what I'm seeing and in a real crunch, I can't get it to update until the memory hog is done munching. 

Susan H. 


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! 😊
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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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> 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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