Hi Plankton -

Thanks for helping me.

I just installed CPU-Z and attached the available report.

Motherboard: model FX504GM by ASUSeK Computer Inc
BIOS: FX504GM.307

Marianne

Hi Thomas -

Thanks for helping me.

Here are my scannow & DISM results. Rebooting now.

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Hi Samuria -

Thanks so much for looking at my post.

if you look under My Computer it's the 2nd system - the ASUS

Drives: SSD 256 GB PCIe NVMe HDD 1TB

The O/S is on the SSD and my data on...

Hi all -

This is in reference to my 2nd System:

ASUS FX504GM-ES74

i7-8750H CPU @2.20GHz CPU
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card
16GB RAM,
Windows Home 1909

Just tried starting FF in safe mode - still took about 5 minutes to start using the command

firefox -safe-mode

I should have mentioned that I've already disabled all of the extensions and hw...

Will do - but do you have a similar diagnostic suggestion for iTunes? Same hangup issue. Will try FF safemode right now. Thank you so much for your assistance!

This is a recent occurrence. Firefox sometimes starts after about 5 minutes but iTunes not at all.

In the Task Manager, under Details, Analyze Wait Chain I'll see the message -

One or More...

Hi Matthew -

Thanks for your suggestion.

I have 2 monitors - I use Chrome on 1 and FF on the other - that way I can have each browser open on a different screen. The laptop is under the desk....

Waited a few days and updated to 1607 - this time there were no problems. The one remaining issue is Firefox. It takes about 10 minutes to start - even when I change its priority to high in the Task...

Update - I have network connectivity back - I went into Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Wi-Fi Status -> Properties and unchecked every item and started checking them back beginning...

Hi there -

On 9/25 at 4:00 AM my system, already a Win 10 machine, applied updates bringing it to v 1607, build 14393.187. Since then I have had no internet connectivity - either through wifi or...