Windows 10 upgrade to version 1909 was successful.
Windows update is working and downloading now.
Not sure if various program freeze issues were solved. I'm testing now.
What else needs to be corrected? Which tests/commands should be repeating to confirm that windows 10 is properly working?
Update - some correction is still necessary.
I have not had any program freezes, but here is what I am seeing:
1. Windows startup takes in excess in excess of 15 minutes. A long period on a black screen with only cursor visible (HDD blinks a lot), before loading desktop.
2. Browsing is slow & website loading is slow. Does no matter which browser is used (IE, FF, CH) results are the same.
I do not think it is a hardware failure because I did not have this problem before version 1909 upgrade yesterday - it would be unusual to have a hardware failure at exact same time as I upgraded windows. My best guess is a bad/incompatible driver or setting in windows.
BTW - reset my ip & dns and my browser speed improved.