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It was the monitor – I was focusing on the operating system.

I went to the monitor controls and reset the monitor. Worked!

Thanks Doriel

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doriel, Elly

Thanks for replying.

The Scaling is 100%

I have attached a composite screen shot of the system app – Display

Larry

 

One last comment, my wife is starting the Zoom conferencing with her book club etc so I dusted off the 12 year old Lenovo laptop. It really was slow so I did the repair/reinstall.

While not a speed demon, the old clunker is now useful

 

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Elly

WhooHoo! Thanks to bbearren Before you go through the reformat/reinstall dance, have you tried an in-place upgrade (repair/reinstall)?

I did that today, took a few hours

the system is back to its performance

Thanks again
Larry

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Elly, Paul T

Do you have a CD/DVD disk in any optical drive when you boot?

No. In fact, I am amazed how little I use the optical drive.

 

Hi Rick,

I followed your suggestions and could not see anything of significance. More I think to my limited knowledge

So I have uploaded 3 versions of the log to

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/svn3r6ohchnv7pe/AAA72QCgFs-ADxKarUJzG_L8a?dl=0

2020-03-26 FullEventLogView.xlsx

2020-03-26 FullEventLogView.csv

2020-03-26 FullEventLogView.txt

Cheers

Larry

 

Given that the medical and civic authorities tell us to:

stay well, stay healthy and stay home…

I am ready to start digging

thanks Rick,

I planned to upload the following

2020-03-26 perfmon – report.html

2020-03-26_11-06-03 Local reliability report week.jpg

2020-03-26_11-06-03 Local reliability report day.jpg

2020-03-26 Local reliability report.XML

but 2020-03-26 Local reliability report.XML is mot allowed – XML and

2020-03-26 perfmon – report.html is too big

I have created a limited access Dropdox folder where I have put the 4 files

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/svn3r6ohchnv7pe/AAA72QCgFs-ADxKarUJzG_L8a?dl=0

Stay well

larry

Looks promising bbearren. – in-place upgrade (repair/reinstall)?

I shall explore this first.

Thanks

 

Thanks to all of you for your comments and suggestions.

As I have been running the same suite of programs over 2 years and the slowdown has only started in the last 4 or so months, I think my only recourse is to reinstall Windows and start with a Carte Blanche.

This means changing the boot from legacy BIOS to UEFI. Thanks ELLY for the links which I have been exploring.

 

Then the windows re-install followed by the program suite installations as required – first is Malwarebytes. I have a complete list compiled by Revo Uninstaller PRO.

In anticipation, all my data will be backed up and I have prepared a recovery disk.

Once the COVID-19 crisis has passed and the civic and health authorities give the all clear, I will take the box to the computer store and upgrade the C: 250GB SDD windows drive to a terabyte or more. It is amazing how the prices have dropped.

I will inform this post of the outcome

Thanks again and STAY WELL!

Larry

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Hi folks,

First, lets address the system specs. See below

 

The information of the Storage taken from System Information
Item Value
Drive C: – this is a SDD and is the Boot disk
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 232.26 GB (249,385,897,984 bytes)
Free Space 82.13 GB (88,190,431,232 bytes)
Volume Name Windows
Volume Serial Numb… C29C03E3
Drive D: This is magnetic
Description Local Fixed Disk
Compressed No
File System NTFS
Size 2.73 TB (3,000,457,228,288 bytes)
Free Space 709.97 GB (762,321,399,808 bytes)
Volume Name ZLarry2016DDrive
Volume Serial Numb… 346E7D0E

The system specs extracted from the quote

Intel Core i5-6600 Quad-Core Processor Socket LGA1151, 3.3Ghz, 6MB L3 Cache, 14nm
Corsair Carbide Series® SPEC-02 Red LED Window Mid-Tower Gaming Case (CC-9011051-WW)
Seagate Desktop HDD 3TB 3.5″ SATA3 64MB Cache OEM Hard Drive (ST3000DM001
ASUS Z170-P Socket 1151 Intel Z170 Chipset • Dual Channel, DDR4, 2x PCI-Express 3.0/2.0 x16,2 x PCI Express 3.0/2.0 x1, 2 x PCI • GLAN, 4x SATA 6
EVGA 600W 80Plus Bronze Certified Power Supply 3 Year Warranty Intel 4th Gen CPU Ready (100-B1-0600-KR)
G.SKILL Aegis 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C15 Memory Kit (F4-2400C15D-16GIS)
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB 2.5″ 6Gb/s Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-750250BW)
EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB GDDR5 (02G-P4-3751-KR) • 1020 MHz Clock, 5400 MHz Memory • PCI Express 3.0, Dual-link DVI, HDMI