Ah, while typing an email just now the problems suddenly stopped and the PC
seems to have reverted to normal (as normal as a PC ever gets I suppose).
No messages of any sort (e.g. updates downloaded, scans finished etc) so I
can only presume that a running scan or some such process has ended. There
is still a little bit of hard disk activity, but the computer is now back to
normal in terms of usability.
Weird.
Thanks to everyone who tried to help. Proves to me once more, as if proof
were needed, how helpful a community we are.
Dilwyn
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