Tried Ping test?

If you contact your ISP they can do some diagnostics over the connection. They can even adjust settings at their end. Which ISP is it?

Same here.

It's extremely frustrating. I use Develo adapters to make the 240v house mains function like a hard wired network.

My internet provider is BT who give me Infinity 1. When it goes down, you don't really know what's causing it. One or more of the Develo Adapters?; BT?; wiring or cables?; the modem?

But deep down, it does heavily point towards being BT.

There's kids coming home from school and the internet usage goes up. Then there's stuff like 'catch up tv' or internet tv, films, games, etc. I just cannot believe in the quality of the infrastructure.

Hmm. Could be a universal problem. I'm with PlusNet, unlimited, recently the speed has been dropping dramatically then recovering. I've had to switch everything off then restart on a few occasions. I've been blaming the kids/wife/dog/next door neighbours/Jeremy Corbyn et al; could it be Aliens?!:o)

When I power on WIN10 I get a really good pic and a question if I like it or not-I like it/them.
However on another PC in the house on WIN1O this doesn`t appear, any idea how to get it- tried Microsoft help without success

Thanks for the input - I was out for the rest of yesterday and last night - it seems fine this morning - so I assume it was Talktalk - really frustrating, but to be honest - quite rare these days.

Ah got it it`s Windows Spotlight!

On Win10 am now suffering the very annoying problem of new tabs hanging and becoming unresponsive in both Chrome and Edge (which I used to call IE).
Opening pages in a new window solves the problem, but multiple tabs in either browser just causes the whole lot to jam up! I assume it's an extension somewhere but even un-installing and re-installing doesn't solve it. Soooooooo annoying as I don't think I have changed anything in the settings.

It does sound like an extension problem?

For info - I currently have 20 tabs open under Chrome.

A little bit here.

There is a whole forum on the current problems with Chrome, but there doesn't seem to be a 'one thing fixes all' solution. (That's the one I found skinny....your link).
I only have Rapport and AdBlock Plus as extensions at the moment (Apart from the Google own extensions) so might have to disable them and see if that changes anything.

Apart from the defaults, I only have AdBlock Plus if that helps narrow it down.

Have disabled all Extensions and no different. New tabs still hang.
No doubt Google will come up with a fix at some point.....says he hopefully!

Lots of people use CCleaner.

Do check that it isn't running from StartUp by unclicking it and thereby disabling it in your StartUp Folder.

The best way of doing this is to open CCleaner itself and then do so from the appropriate section of StartUp in CCleaner.

IMHO, if CCleaner is running at the same time as an AV program then it is possible to easily 'choke up' the browser. Disabling CCleaner from StartUp stops this.

Of course, you can always advantageously use CCleaner independently and seperately later.

Strangely opening pages in a new window solves the problem, so that's what I am having to do for the foreseeable future. Haven't yet found a way of getting Chrome to open every link in a new window by default rather than a new tab.

Harry - have a look here - looks a bit over the top, but 6 has the option to "open all bookmarks in new window" where all bookmarks have been predefined by you.

Now got C:\Program Files(x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\Chrome.exe
The server threw an exception

Having Googled all of that, seems it's an ongoing problem. No known fix yet....as far as I can see.

The latest and most up to date version of Chrome appears to be:

Version 45.0.2454.101 m

1. Click on the 'three lines box to the top RHS of the browser window'
(NB. A 'Hover' over this box shows 'Customise and control Google Chrome')
2. Click on 'Help and about'
3. Click on 'About Google Chrome' - to get the Chrome version number

Thanks. I am up to date.

What did you do with CCleaner, HarryCat?

I haven't yet gone that route. This is a new laptop (6 months old) with Windows 10 recently installed, so I am reluctant to mess around too much with other software at this stage. Having read through a few forums on these problems I have found out that Google are aware of them, though no fixes are yet available. The consensus of opinion is that there is a conflict with an Extension, though disabling each one doesn't seem to have any effect.
I am tempted to change browser, but other people seem to be having problems with Firefox. I have never tried Opera.