Thank you so much!! Might be a couple days before I can work on it
again. I'll let you know how things go.
On 2023-07-07 15:40, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Task manager and/or Resource Manager should show you where your
bottlenecks lie, but sounds like either disk (spinner vs ssd), memory,
or cpu is getting pegged. This should show you what processes are
using said cpu/memory/io, either kill them, or feed them more hardware
resources. The sysinternals tools like process explorer and such are
also helpful in seeing applications and/or system processes freaking
out, including more hidden ones.
If still a spinner disk, the best thing you could do is get her any
SSD to run the OS and primary apps on alone.
Could be windoze is just trashed after a while with applications
coming and going, upgrading, breaking stuff, etc. Might be worth
trying a clean restore of the system and/or wiping the disks with
zero's to reset state ala fragmentation or if ssd, needing a reset
with secure erase.
-mb
On Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 2:29 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
<plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
Hi,
This is mostly off topic given this is a Linux List.
I have two separate work areas in my house. I have my home office
which
is doing well. I am using my Linux Ubuntu desktop to send this
email.
My Linux machine is hardwired. This is my main box. I also have a
Win
10 Pro laptop that I use to make and edit YouTube videos. My
editing
software only works on Win and MAC. This laptop is connected via
WIFI.
No Problems. The O/S loads reasonably fast. My video editing
software
loads reasonably fast and the rendering process takes a bit but not
too
bad. This is a 6 year old HP - nothing fancy and it works.
My wife's office in another spare bedroom and she has a Dell
mini-tower
Win 10 ... I want to say pro as well.
Here is where I need help. My wife's dell is very slow and has
trouble
with loading Firefox and it takes a while to load YouTube videos.
Even
windows takes a while to load which make me think it is a local
problem
(the Dell box).
I am reaching out because I do not know how to troubleshoot this
issue.
Any help much appreciated.
Keith
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