Windows is known to have problems with long term installations. you get issues with re-installing / de-installing / updating / patching leaving all kinds of cruft and orphan processes. and then you've got the possibility of trojans and viruses infiltrating through IE.
total disk backup, format and clean install of the operating system will typically restore your computer to it's original functionality and speed. any decent comp tech should be able to do that in < 4 hours ... and half of that time will be spent twiddling his thumbs waiting on the computer.
so, say a 100 bucks and your computer should act like it did when it was brand new.
i'm running PaleMoon ( Mozilla knockoff ) for a browser, Chrome ( Google ) and Brave ( Chrome knockoff ) are also supposed to be good. all are free. PaleMoon / Mozilla are pretty painless installs, although i certainly wouldn't try to download them over a 56k connection. i haven't tried the others but would expect the same from them.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin
Government schooling is about "the perfect organization of the hive."
H.H. Goddard, Human Efficiency (1920)
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