Cygwin's bash became extremely slow after errors

Question

I realize there are a few other questions about why Cygwin is apparently slow, but this case seems to be unique.

I had some issues where things were reporting lots of er

Answer 1

So I never actually solved this. Got a new computer instead.

Similar problem cropped up there eventually, and the problem was the NVIDIA driver software--not the actual drivers themselves.

So, the path was:

• Install NDIVIA Drivers
• Remove NVIDIA Software from AppWiz.cpl
• Use Hardware Manager to find the .inf files that were left around