Thank you for the additional suggestions.

I know my Windows is a 64 bit version.  I'm away from that PC until next week but I will find more of the system specs (such as the CPU Model) and try your suggestion ETFbitcoin.

Personally, I have always thought the slow performance with the bitcoin core client was due to it being behind 2 firewalls with no port forwarding to accept incoming connections from the bitcoin network. I'm not willing to change that for the workstation the bitcoin core client runs on so I didn't see a way to research the slow performance downloading blocks.  But I have noticed depending on the day, that the client would have problems accessing peers.