Good Morning
Saba,
Abydos sent a note indicating he may need to be away for a period of time.
I'll step in to assist with your work for the time-being, if that is OK with you.
You appear to have a fine machine that should meet most of your office, internet browsing, email correspondence, media display, media file management, and light gaming activity needs.
A problem with "fine machines" is that we tend to add more, and then a little more, and more applications to increase our enjoyment and productivity when using the machine.
That's generally a good thing.
The problem occurs because many common application and utility software authors tend to want their own software to gain a prominent position in your machine's schedule.
Even that can be a good thing in most cases, until the number of utilities trying to gain a top position in your machine's StartUp List becomes so great that the machine is compelled to load and try to handle too much all at the same time.
Often we may not even be aware of some of the "stuff" that is monopolizing the machine's resources.
Computers are like all other machines. They run better and last longer if proper maintenance is performed.
Looks like you got a good start with Abydos' assistance, but have some additional maintenance work to do.
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We'll benefit from a more graphic presentation of your current StartUps.
Please consider running this simple utility that will help you get control of programs and processes that you wish to have running active, or not.
CodeStuff-Starters
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/Starter.html
Download and install, agreeing to the licensing terms and allow to install with all of the default settings as preselected in the installation wizard.
When you finally allow CodeStuff-Starters to run
It will preselect StartUps Tab)
• Click on
File
• Select -
save as .html (name the report file -
Startups May6.html)
In your next reply,
post the file as an attached file (use browse and upload buttons – at the bottom-right corner of your topic posting window where you are typing your next reply)
Please do not make any changes with Code-Stuff Starters, until after you post the requested information above and receive recommendations from a helper here.
There are additional items to be addressed in maintenance:
I'll list a few now, but will give you specific step-by-step information after we have a look at the above CodeStuff Starters
- Clear Temps and JAVA Cache
- JAVA JRE - Need to remove old vulnerable version and install update
- Restore Points management: Reduce reserved space
- Consider updating AntiVirus version to 8.5 or substitue with Avira/or/Avast
- Adjust Receive Buffer Size
- Disk Error Checking
- Disk Defrag
- Consider uninstall of various unnecessary utilities and applications (user choice) including indexing and desktop management utilities
- Investigate Dell Battery Recall (your machine is listed - need to check Battery serial number to confirm need or not for Recall
- investigate power settings and CPU automatic throttling
Best Regards
