Originally Posted by chgoeditor

I had a Windows 10 update that seemed to cause deteriorating performance. I was a little nervous to try it, but I went with the Windows repair feature -- can't remember the exact name, but the one that leaves all of your files, etc., untouched -- and it was remarkably pain free. I still had to reinstall non-Microsoft programs and tweak some settings, but it did a remarkable job of fixing the performance issues I'd previously encountered. (See my Travel Tech thread from a few months ago, where several posters thought I was on the verge of a hard-drive failure, didn't have enough RAM, etc.)