Gerry,
Thanks for the reply and much appreciated! As for the request for System, Program file and Event logs I pray to hesitate. No disrespect Sir ... it's just kind of like asking a person to allow total strangers to rummage around in your sock drawer (so to speak). The issue arouse with the release of the updates and I am not experiencing any other problems or slow downs. My PC Environment has remained unchanged and
the only updates are for existing programs or games - of which all have updated after the first release of
afore mentioned Microsoft updates. It seems to me that the problem exists on Microsoft's end as the problem isn't just with my computer alone.
If there's something in those logs that you wanted to see I'd be willing to look and report back any info.
On the system log info everything seemed to be checked okay although there was some Internet Explorer crashes logged in the past. Anyway, I've read that Microsoft is going to abandon Internet Explorer sometime in the near future.
Thanks.