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Windows 10 intermittent lag
I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and overall I'm very happy with it. The upgrade was very seamless and the computer seems to be running faster overall. There is one exception though. I have noticed that after startup and for HOURS afterwards, programs are extremely slow. The biggest problem is Excel which I use throughout the day. It opens fine but when I just try to click from cell to cell, it takes so long to respond! For some reason though, if I take my mouse cursor and quickly move it across the other two monitors and back, it completes the move from the one cell to the other. The same with typing. If I type in a cell, the numbers don't show up but if I move my cursor away and back, it completes. This behavior seems to be limited to programs because Chrome seems to work just fine. Yesterday, in desperation I went through task manager and disabled anything I could to see if it would help. It did not. It doesn't appear to be a resource problem because the CPU is at 1% or less and memory used was at most, 20%. I even tried giving Excel higher priority and that did nothing either. So I got to wondering if maybe because I was using Office 2010 that maybe I needed to upgrade. I went and laid down $150 for the 2016 version, brought it home and went to install it and..........my Excel 2010 version was working fine! I hadn't touched it at all! It doesn't appear to matter which Excel file I have open either. Even a blank document does the same thing. Microsoft Word doesn't seem to be affected though. I can type just fine in a blank document. I open CC Cleaner though and it responds very slow. Some programs run fine, others not. I opened iTunes and it required an update. I agreed to do the update and it would lag while the green bar filled. I had to move my mouse cursor again in order for it to keep updating. So weird. I even tried updating bios on video card, motherboard, etc. No difference.
Any and all suggestions would be appreciated here. Thanks.
Edit: Just wanted to add one more description of the behavior. I was in Excel trying to get to options to attempt to disable hardware acceleration (hey, I'm desperate to try anything). When I click on, "Options" the outline of the window would come up but not the contents. I tried grabbing the top of the window and dragging it and it left a trail of windows behind. Kind of like what happens when there is a memory issue. I just wanted to point that out as another example of what we are talking about here.
Other changes I tried:
1. Turning off "Hey Cortana"
Last edited by johnstac; 01 Jul 2018 at 17:11.