Thank you, Phill, I really appreciate your help, especially on a holiday.
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I closed all programs and restarted the machine and was able to open the Recovery Manager screen. It contains 3 panes:
I need help immediately
I’d like to identify any problems
I’d like to take precautions
At that point, I exited and rebooted.
After closing all programs for the first reboot, I took a screen shot of the Task Manager. Memory readings:
Total 2815
Cached 719
Available 1733
Free 1053
After the reboot, it changed to the worst:
Total 2815
Cached 250
Available 237
Free 0
If you would like me to, I can post or email the jpg screen shots. They may reveal to you more than they do to me.
At this point, 65 min after the reboot, I have only MS Word and Firefox open and can hardly work. Actually, Free memory jumped just now to 400MB.
Re my son, no offense, don’t worry. I shot myself in a foot yet again. My son actually said that he “plays” with various analytical software all the time and may indeed have residual junk on his machine.
So, where do we go from here?
Edited by BerDov, 26 December 2015 - 06:00 AM.