What's changed recently in browsers or Windows to slow down my PC?!

Good it's running as you expected.

Please mark this thread as solved.

Was great for a few days... then came back.

Today it seems to be not as fast as normal but not as slow as it was.

Maybe there's some cache in the AMD video software that needs to be cleared, or some glitch, I can't tell.

You came here for help but you're not doing what we instruct you to do.

Once again, open WU and do a manual search for updates. Does it run forever?

Megahertz07 said:

You came here for help but you're not doing what we instruct you to do.

Once again, open WU and do a manual search for updates. Does it run forever?

I already tried that, and no it ran for a few minutes then said there were no updates because it auto-updates.

I need a way to identify the problem, I'd prefer not to try random solutions.

It's back to its slowness again... I know the fix had something to do with the video software, and I mentioned it's probably something in cache that gets something gummed up randomly, but I'd like to know where to check. I suppose I could just keep clearing every cache every few days but that seems like a workaround instead of a solution.

Is anyone familiar with troubleshooting or diagnosing video software?

I can try all the solutions here in order that I haven't yet, but I'd rather know places to check for problems (I tried Process Explorer and I'm not seeing what paths specifically to go down once I get there).

I finally upgraded to Windows 10, and it's running GREAT!

I only ran into slowdown once and it didn't last long.

I think it was just a video driver issue with Windows 7. Now I'm getting automatic Dell updates and there's much more than there was before (the previous ones wouldn't install because Intel had marked them as incompatible for 7).

Now I only have to deal with Dell's nonsense! I shall figure out what the h3!! it's trying to install (no it doesn't make it easy to see) and then see how things go!

Thanks for all the help and suggestions. Sorry I didn't just jump into all of them, but I'm pretty sure I was right that it was a video driver problem with Windows 7!