I haven’t had extended cable internet outages, but if I did and my computer’s performance suffered, the first place I would look is in the Preferences for each program. I would turn off Check for Automatic Updates (or whatever language each program uses to do that). All those programs trying to phone home can’t be good when they can’t do it.


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