Many thanks to all for the concise input. I'll work through all of the suggestions and see
if I can turn up the problem and will post back any solution.

It may or may not be related to 32 vs...

Thanks for the reply. I understand the 32 bit limit of 4Gb, however watching the Resource Monitor does not show RAM insufficiency.
Normally anything exceeding available ram would go to swap, which...

An old issue but I couldn't find anything that seemed like a solution.

Windows 10 22H2 - 19045 32 bit, 4Gb memory

Ran Chkdsk, DISM and Scannow - all come up clean
Increased page file size,...