compatibility issue with my chipset so I disabled my chipset
What is that? Could it account for your slowness symptom? What would happen if you now tried to enable it? Make sure you have a backup procedure if your experiments go wrong. ; )
Windows Action Center popped up a message saying there was a compatibility issue with "this version of windows" and to update my driver. But Intel only has drivers for windows 7 and my model of mobo has been discontinued for support.
Before the update, if the chipset was enabled, the mouse would stutter sometimes and it was a little slower than with the chipset disabled (and the mouse wouldn't stutter in that case).
After the update, the chipset is still disabled because I haven't re-enabled it and still slower than molasses (but the mouse doesn't stutter at all, even when loading things).
I'm not sure what is causing the slowness now.
The "Microsoft Basic Display Driver" really isn't that bad. I can't easily use dual monitors anyways on this computer (no HDMI or 2nd VGA) and it can go up to 1280x1024 resolution. =)