Windows 10: Keyboard entry gradually slows over time; Resolves when I close/reopen browser

Over the last 6 mos, my system seems to gradually slow down until I close and reopen the browser Edge or Chrome on Win10.

• I ran system diagnostics on memory and network interfaces and have no issues. using Norton and Microsoft diagnostics
• Problem resolves and then gradually returns.
• Occurs when I use spreadsheets e.g., navigating between spreadsheet cells and using network cloud software e.g., TurboTax. The system just become unresponsive and it moves from being very responsive to data entry into a form or spreadsheet to gradually get slower and can take 30 seconds to get a response.
• I defragged the disk and deleted temp files using Norton antivirus
• Edge and Win10 are on latest release, as is Chrome browser when that is used.

My pc is a laptop with an Intel I5 processor around 7 years old, and 6GB of main memory. Plenty of disk storage. When running the performance monitor I don't see any obvious issues of overloaded resources. Ethernet connected to a high speed network 25Mb/s upload and 3.5Mb/s download.


Can't figure out what is wrong or next steps to diagnose issue.


Any ideas would be appreciated.


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@ and " are mixed up on my keyboard

Hi John,

To resolve your issue with keyboard, we suggest that you follow the steps below:

• Click on the Start Menu>Settings>Time & language>Region & language.
• Click on Languages>Options>Add a keyboard.
• Click on US Qwerty.
• Close to Save.

Let us know how it goes.

 

Unable to connect to internet on browsers except for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 computer.

Hi Nad,



Thank you for replying with the error messages received on trying to connect to internet on different browsers.



Please reply, did you try performing System restore as suggested in the above post?



If haven’t tried performing System restore, flush your PC’s
DNS cache by following the steps below and check if the issue is resolved. Performing the below steps will clear DNS cache from the computer and renew the IP configuration set on the computer.

• Press Windows key + X keys on the keyboard and select
  Command prompt (Admin) from the context menu.
• Type the following command and press Enter after each entries:
  • ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /registerdns
  • ipconfig /release
  • ipconfig /renew
• Close the windows and check if the changes are effective.

If the above steps does not resolve the issue, perform
System restore by following steps mentioned in the above post and check if it helps.



Write to us with the status of unable to connect to internet on other browser except for Edge on the computer
for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



Thank you.

 

Windows default browser changing every time

Hello Genevieve,



Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We apologize for the delay in response.



Try changing the default app settings from the system Settings window one more time and check if the issue is resolved.



Follow the step below to change the default app settings.

• Press Windows logo key on the keyboard, type Default app settings and select the top most search result.
• From the page, click on the browser set as default under Web browser and select the browser you want as default from the
  Choose an app window.
• Close the page and check if the changes are effective.

Write to us with the status of the issue on the same post for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



Thank you.