On 5/22/2018 3:10 AM, Paul wrote:
Steve wrote:
On 5/18/2018 9:42 AM, Steve wrote:
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?

Well, after I wrote all the above last night, I maximized Firefox
which had been opened the whole time, but minimized. Everything was
normal again. I checked the mail washer program and it was all normal
too. It was bed time and I decided to shut the computer off over
night. Today everything is normal so far. I feel like it's working a
little slow, but I'm not even sure.


Still mostly good, but... Today I was on Facebook and the page would
refresh itself for no reason. Could be a Facebook problem, but...
Tonight I was on Facebook and trying to write a long answer to
something on a group and it would refresh, making my writing
disappear. I had to open notepad and type it there. Even notepad would
jump, blink out and come back. When it did this, it would insert the
date into what I was typing. I got it done and I copied it into Facebook.
As I'm typing this, here with Thunderbird, everything is normal. While
I was fighting with Facebook, a message popped up saying a "security
and stability" update had been downloaded and I needed to restart.
I'll now shut off the computer and go to bed. Tomorrow, I'll start it
up and it will finish the install. Now I'll wait to see if my computer
becomes a mess again, or, do I dare to hope it will fix things this
time? I'll let you know.


Does your video card driver support GPU Task Manager ?

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-t...ata-windows-10

You could take a look at that, for suspicious activity.

The other possibility, is Windows Defender and some other
piece of software, are in a "knife fight". Such a situation
might exist, of the piece of software tries to do something
again and again, and some AV software in the machine stops it.
In the past, this has even managed to lock up a machine
(make it unresponsive to external input) because there
are precious few cycles left to do anything other than run
those two pieces of software.

Take a look in Event Viewer, and see if the twitchy interval also
has a lot of Events logged against it.

*******

The person here, something actually got into their Adobe Flash.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/994941

Â*Â* Paul

Actually, no. Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
(Just the day before the problem happened the first time, I was thinking
that my computer is getting old, but it's been the most reliable
computer I've ever had. )
Thanks for the links. The person in the 2nd link had something similar
to me, but different. He said the problem was only with using Firefox
while my problem was affecting everything on the computer.