On 5/18/2018 12:28 AM, Steve wrote:
Not sure the computer will let me send this, but here goes.

About 2 weeks ago, it started. I first saw it using a little program
called Mail Washer. It started trying to log in to the mail server over
and over, multiple times a second. The "process" button wouldn't
function to let me delete the ones selected.
I quickly discovered it wasn't a mail washer problem. Firefox, windows
explorer, and Thunderbird weren't good either. In a browser, the open
tab flashes back and forth between the circle arrow(reload page) and the
X (stop). Again multiple times a second. Most web pages eventually go
white.
While this is going on, the desktop icons don't function. Double click
does nothing and right click opens up the menu that should come up when
I right click and empty spot on the desktop.
I "fixed it" once by bringing up troubleshooting. Troubleshoot windows
update, it found something and fixed it. Good for over a week.
Last night, it prompted me to install an update by restarting. It's set
to install updates automatically, so I don't see these requests often. I
shut it down overnight. Today I turned it back on. It took maybe half an
hour installing an update. I tried undoing that update but it couldn't
do it. Troubleshooting is no help this time.
Where do I start now?


I am replying to my old post from May. Perhaps not a single person will
see it, but so be it.
Without doing anything else, my computer has been completely normal for
these last 6 weeks or so. I learned something about it today:
This computer has had off and on problems with insomnia since I got it
in the early Windows 7 days. I always put it in sleep mode when I was
ready for bed myself. Sometimes it would work for several days, then
start waking back up right away. That night I would turn it off and it
might be good again for several days.
What I have been doing is shutting it down completely every night. It's
been working fine all this time. I noticed recently it went into sleep
mode by itself and stayed there, so last night I did sleep mode for the
first time in weeks. Today the old trouble is back. Some sites are
unusable right now. I shut the computer off for a few hours this
afternoon, but that didn't help.
Right now, I'm thinking the whole problem is related to the faulty sleep
mode. If I just never use it, I'm thinking it might be all good again.

Steve