Windows 10: auto update issue

Ok; back to the laptop; transfer rate moving ( for example ) my documents folder to my desktop varies from 0 to 18M/sec. Why the fluctuation I don't know. Wanted to add images using the Insert Image icon but just get the window saying yes or ne; hit yes and no other options

 

That's what you should see- click Browse to find an image

 

Best I could do; there is no file #05

 

so, as a small recap I cannot add files unless I hit reply to thread and not quote.

 

Hi, there's nothing I can see from the task manager that stands out.

The issue of low disk transfer rates (e.g. 10MB/s = 100% usage) has occurred for some over several generations of Windows, and I've not yet seen any clear solution.

Slowness in general is another matter, with multiple possible causes. Can you give a couple of examples if there are any that clearly aren't caused by disk speed restrictions?

 

just in general; opening programs is slow; sometimes scrolling up and down long file lists; internet explore got so slow bringing up web pages ( plus nagging script errors ) that I have loaded Firefox which is faster all around so far. My email program of choice has always been Windows Live Mail with Gmail imbedded so to speak but that doesn't work correctly ( ok in windows 7 machine which rockets right along ) so have loaded Thunderbird which is working fine; just needs some tweaking. Just generally slow. As I sad my old ( 9 years ) windows 7/64 desktop pc is way faster that this one with 10.
And yes, this laptop was quicker when 8.1 was running on it. Just don't know what it is.