My problem reoccurred quickly, but I had no time to do anything about it and had, thus, nothing to post here. That may have solved my problem, because even in Normal Mode now, Word, for instance, opens very fast, and folders, too, open very fast (in my replacement for Win Explorer/File Explorer – Dopus – used even in SafeMode, since I had not changed the setting to replace File Explorer).ĭalChina, If you see something suspicious in what I have attached or said above, please let me know, otherwise I will let you know if my problem reoccurs. I uninstalled a number of apps, namely XBox stuff, Apple stuff, GoMeeting stuff, and some other apps that I certainly do not need anymore. Now, I did one thing that one should not do when trouble-shooting, and I am (kinda') sorry about that. Since my problem is random in time, I spent only those few minutes there. I spent a few minutes in Safe Mode, and everything was so much faster. I have no anti-malware (or the like) apps installed, just MS Defender.

I have never changed my page file settings. It seems rather random, happening only once every half hours or so on the average. The slowness started a few months ago, and it is too much time for me to remember what happened before.

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