Yep, Dalchina, I do have that update thing turned off. Things are much, much better and my gut feel is that some of the remaining small delays are caused by MS Edge because often when I am doing my...

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a) They were Windows updates
b) I haven't a clue what disk SMART parameters are
c) You mean this?
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Thank you both for your responses.

Vince - I had already done all scans but I did them again just in case (Kaspersky, Malwarebytes and Spybot) and all were clear.

Given that I had automatic...

After installing some updates a short while ago navigation on my computer started slowing down. Every day it gets a bit worse and today it is taking up to 20 seconds before a page/folder will load....

Thank you all for your advice. I have followed all the links you have given and done as suggested. It will be interesting to see how much effect this has effect.

This is what my usage looked...

I am a pensioner who has a special telephone/internet package for those of us on limited incomes. This package only allows 10GB of bandwith usage per month after which we have to pay £5.50 for each...