VanguardLH wrote in :

Alan Holbrook wrote:

Several times a year, my computer response time plummets like a
wounded robin, and usually at the same time, I can't seem to start
some of my applications. Either nothing happens at all or else I get

awaiting a restart. You said all applications were impacted, but it
unlikely you actually started every application currently installed on

Just a nit, but you didn't read my post carefully. I said SOME of my
applications, not All of them.