Setting up my new Dell Tower

LOL, can’t get much further in the 50 states!

Northern Washington to Northern Main or Northern Washington to Southern Florida would do it, at least in the contiguous 48.

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I suggest running Task Manager, part of Windows 11. For me it appears on the task bar at the bottom, third icon in after Start and File Explorer. It shows CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and Power usage for each wee bit of what is running. Clicking on the column heading sorts on that measure. I might look at all of them when trouble shooting, but for day to day I sort on Power usage. I start it now and then just to be used to seeing what normal looks like.

Note that you can end tasks pretty easily there, though if it is something in runaway mode it might not cancel quickly.

I make no claim to expertise on security, but I run Bitdefender and Malwarebytes, for whatever that is worth. I’ve had no issues with them doing their jobs, nor with them not doing their jobs. But I’m pretty careful.

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My task manager does not have “power usage”. Weird. I have the other four you list.

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You probably have to turn on the display of that column. Just right-click on one of the other column headings and select “Power usage”:

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Once again, thanks! But three words isn’t enough for this discussion forum to accept, so #$%^&()(&^%D$^%((D(*&$
Have a good day!

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