Check out this screenshot: https://www.screencast.com/t/jPvGm7ebW
Perhaps it's this syncing/backing-up that is caused my laptop's performance ALL DAY to be dead dog slow?!?!??? It has been UNBEARABLE all day long.
I did a SpeedTest.net and I'm getting great speeds (400/60) so it's NOT a slow internet connection. I did a SFC /scannow in the Command Prompt earlier and it did find some corruption and allegedly fixed it (https://www.screencast.com/t/XtGbukcktB).
Laptop is NOT old and is NOT overheating (or at least I don't hear the fan on constantly/frequently and the laptop is not hot to the touch). I did adjust the Power Settings today to try to bolster performance (which would increase the frequency of the fan, I thought)....but zip zero nada. I did have some noises from that fan recently but I don't think the fan is dead because again, the laptop is NOT hot to touch at all.
Other than using SysInternals, what else do you suggest?
tia! --Michael