Perhaps. Could it instead be 2 issues that are conflated? When it gets slow, have you rebooted without applying updates? Could be memory leaks, paging, misbe

Perhaps. Could it instead be 2 issues that are conflated? When it gets slow, have you rebooted without applying updates? Could be memory leaks, paging, misbehaving applications. Have you run Process Explorer (from sysinternals) [1] as Administrator when the slowness occurs? Windows 10 will also Suspend processes not in use rather than killing them which can eat up the pagefile. [1] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysi...