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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