Windows 10: Windows 10 intermittent lag

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and overall I'm very happy with it. The upgrade was very seamless and the computer seems to be running faster overall. There is one exception though. I have noticed that after startup and for HOURS afterwards, programs are extremely slow. The biggest problem is Excel which I use throughout the day. It opens fine but when I just try to click from cell to cell, it takes so long to respond! For some reason though, if I take my mouse cursor and quickly move it across the other two monitors and back, it completes the move from the one cell to the other. The same with typing. If I type in a cell, the numbers don't show up but if I move my cursor away and back, it completes. This behavior seems to be limited to programs because Chrome seems to work just fine. Yesterday, in desperation I went through task manager and disabled anything I could to see if it would help. It did not. It doesn't appear to be a resource problem because the CPU is at 1% or less and memory used was at most, 20%. I even tried giving Excel higher priority and that did nothing either. So I got to wondering if maybe because I was using Office 2010 that maybe I needed to upgrade. I went and laid down $150 for the 2016 version, brought it home and went to install it and..........my Excel 2010 version was working fine! I hadn't touched it at all! It doesn't appear to matter which Excel file I have open either. Even a blank document does the same thing. Microsoft Word doesn't seem to be affected though. I can type just fine in a blank document. I open CC Cleaner though and it responds very slow. Some programs run fine, others not. I opened iTunes and it required an update. I agreed to do the update and it would lag while the green bar filled. I had to move my mouse cursor again in order for it to keep updating. So weird. I even tried updating bios on video card, motherboard, etc. No difference.

Any and all suggestions would be appreciated here. Thanks.

Edit: Just wanted to add one more description of the behavior. I was in Excel trying to get to options to attempt to disable hardware acceleration (hey, I'm desperate to try anything). When I click on, "Options" the outline of the window would come up but not the contents. I tried grabbing the top of the window and dragging it and it left a trail of windows behind. Kind of like what happens when there is a memory issue. I just wanted to point that out as another example of what we are talking about here.

Other changes I tried:

1. Turning off "Hey Cortana"

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Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Random lag spikes

Hi,

We would like to know more about your lag issue:

• What browser are you using when you experience a lag?
• Does the lag occur in a particular game?

In the meantime, we suggest you run the System Maintenance troubleshooter. Here are the steps:

• Press Windows Key + X.
• Click on Control Panel.
• Select Troubleshooting.
• On the left pane, click on View All.
• Click on System Maintenance to run the troubleshooter.

Looking forward to your response.

 

Windows 10: Wireless logitech keyboard and mouse lags intermittently suddenly.

I have a Logitech wireless mouse and keyboard, and suffer lag on both, but it's much more noticeable on the mouse. During much trying of all the many things suggested to fix the mouse lag problem, and nothing working, I worked out that my mouse was identified
on my PC as 'HID'. When I clicked on mouse properties, then drivers for mouse, there were two drivers shown as installed. The one highlighted was 'class system', not the 'HID system' one, so I highlighted the HID. Mouse seems to work fine now. Don't know if
it has fixed the keyboard lag yet, as that was far more intermittent than the mouse lag - time will tell.