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    phew!

    Let's dont poke the bear.

    Give it a day or two and let me know if things have returned back to normal.
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    Laptop is operating near normally, running all apps, etc. but from time to time it seems to pause and take a while before it resumes. Each time I think "here we go again," but suddenly the screen shows what I was expecting. No error messages have displayed. Although I have no way to prove it, I suspect there is some background activity. I've looked at Task Manager, but I don't know how to spot activity related to scripts, etc. Attached is a screenshot of typical Task Manager status.

    At that point, I left my browser running and minimized it. I opened Photoshop and cropped the Task Manager image.

    When I attempted to return to browser and this Forum, laptop did a restart on its own. However it didn't restart in the usual way, rather it stopped on a screen that said Start Normally (I think). I pressed Enter and Windows appeared to restart. Soon after I entered my logon code, the screen went black and everything appeared to stop. I let the laptop run untouched for a while.

    Eventually, I typed Ctrl-Alt-Del to start Task Manager. I selected "Log off" and when I saw the Start button and the Task Bar appear, I moved the cursor to Start and clicked it. I wound up with screen displaying another instance of the Task Manager on a black screen. I made a second screenshot.

    Then, I restarted laptop. It opened with this Forum, me already logged on, and the beginning of this message displayed (I never saw THAT before).

    Before I log out, I am going to attempt to submit this reply attaching both screenshots, which are very similar except the Memory Usage History on Task Manager 2 is considerably lower. I did not crop the Task Manager 2 image so you could see the black screen.

    Needless to say, I think my laptop is operating strangely.
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    I'm not so good nor trained on the tech end of a computer system but, what you described kinda sounds like something updated?
    Firefox, Google Chrome, Windows, Antivirus?

    Screen shots show very low CPU usage, when you see or notice such a slow down again, with task manager open, click on the
    Applications or processes tab and monitor from there exe = cpu
    from that I hope to see what is pulling and slowing the computer down.
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    The image attached is to ask: is this the Task Manager info you want to see in the case of another slowdown?

    I opened Task Manager, clicked on Processes tab, then clicked on CPU. "CPU" was replaced by a "down arrow"

    I don't understand: "...and monitor from there exe = cpu" Please explain...
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    with the window you had open click on 'show proccesses from all users'

    No need to click on a CPU button I don't think any of the information I was looking for would be there.


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    Understood.

    I'll be traveling from now until early next week and will have laptop with me, so I'll be looking for it to act up and will report what I see.

    Hope you have a nice Thanksgiving!

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    Thank you, for you too.
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    Laptop performed well. No problem caused by using another WIFI.

    I am back at home and still seeing some occasional sluggish response. Often after I log off from Facebook I notice the laptop is very slow to respond. Not always but sometimes it displays a banner at the top of the screen saying there is a script running that I'm not quick enough to stop before the STOP button disappears from the screen. Even when I am able to click on the STOP SCRIPT button, the slowness doesn't disappear immediately. And then, for no apparent reason, the laptop will run great for a few days...

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    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb...rtain-websites

    scroll down and click on Error happens when accessing certain websites
    try what they suggest and see if that helps.
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    I typed in: "htpps://www.facebook.com" and immediately wondered...do I need to include the "/shopify..." business, too? How much of what shows up when Facebook is opened counts as its URL?

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