Woofie, Chrome hasn't actually been running that fast for me lately...
Greene, I thought maybe we were onto something there, but when I right click there isn't an option to add specific programs... just "run in compatibility mode for" (various versions of Windows), and "run in 256 colors," "run in 640 x 480 screen resolution," "disable visual themes," "disable desktop composition," "disable display scaling on high DPI settings," and "run this program as administrator."
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome, but that had no effect, either.
I do appreciate the attempts to help me out !