It seems a lot of Windows users encounter problems with Edge and/or Chrome not responding for 10+ seconds at a time. The mouse moves, you can engage with other apps, just not the browser. When it resumes responding, some of your previous mouse clicks (e.g. failed attempts to switch tabs) are belatedly actioned.

The search results all take you to “useful” posts that suggest you try a repair, upgrade to the latest version, and if that doesn’t work, a reinstall. Dig further and others suggest you trash your cache, history, and all the other stuff you’ve carefully curated.

The fix is to disable graphics acceleration: an option common to both browsers, presumably because they’re running the same underlying Chromium engine.

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I rebuilt my machine this week, and hasn’t that been fun!

One issue that took me an eternity to resolve was getting the touch recognition to work on both monitors. Out of the box, touching EITHER monitor resulted in the first one responding.

My search hits all took me to options that no longer exist in Windows 11.

The fix came from Stack Exchange. Thank you Pierre Courtois Delecour!

Just run this in a PowerShell window, and it will prompt you to touch each monitor in turn, associating the touch with each screen:

cmd /C multidigimon -touch

 
– Greig.