Answers to your questions:

Q: What are you trying to do and what process are you pertaining to?  I'd like to know which feature or part in QuickBooks that is not working properly.

A:  ALL of QuickBooks is working slow and jerky.  It acts like it is trying to connect to the web/internet but is unable to so the cursor is blinking between the "select" arrow and the hourglass.  Should one DARE to click on help you get a bank screen displaying 3 dots blinking  in a "waiting" mode configuration.  Then you are effectively banned from using Quickbooks until you call up a task manager, "End Task" for QuickBooks and then come back in.

Q:  Also I'd like to know if here's any error or alerts when QuickBooks tries to connect to the internet?

A:  NO!!! there are no error messages nor "Alerts".

Q:  Lastly is the program installed locally or is it accessed over a network?

A:  It is installed locally.  It is a single copy and is used solely by me, the bookkeeper.