Anyone finally willing to admit that w10 is unusable on Hard Drives while Linux and W7 work fine on them?
Definitely. Booting up Win10 on an HDD can take up to 10 minutes if you have Discord/Steam installed.
Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
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Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, Win10 is very drive performance dependent. You can run it fine on a Pentium 4, but you need an SSD.
As someone who manages a fleet of 30 windows machines that house PCI DAQ cards: Windows 10 runs on a Pentium 4, but I wouldn't call it fine. All of the machines run on SSDs, which is a godsend, but the older machines that run pentiums involve a lot of waiting around to do the most basic of things. It doesn't help that Windows refuses to us less than 1.5 GB of RAM. You can forget web browsing.
I gave them Lubuntu and their scanner app running in WINE.
It worked fine but they refused to switch because "it's not muh windows". This is how Microsoft corrupts people for life...
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#23This exactly mirrors my experience. "Starting" is slow in Windows and just keeps getting slower. That could be booting, logging in, waiting for an application to start, waiting some more for an application to start, and then waiting even more, not being sure if it ever is going to start, waiting some more, and then it starts.
How is stopping these days? I seem to remember there were about 79 reasons why Windows might not shutdown.
My main complaint is all the programs that think all your documents are so precious that they refuse to shut down. Reminds me of
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#24I can't remember the last time I used Windows search because it's worse than useless - there have been multiple occasions in the past where it can't even find a file in the current folder right in front of my eyes. Nowadays I just use Everything which I think is one of the best piece of software ever.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#25One time Windows got a "feature update" that made it not boot. Apparently it was an issue with Lenovo motherboards that is still not fixed to this day (afaik). In any case, that was the kick in the pants I needed to switch to Linux. Everything has gone swimmingly since!
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#26This exactly mirrors my experience. "Starting" is slow in Windows and just keeps getting slower. That could be booting, logging in, waiting for an application to start, waiting some more for an application to start, and then waiting even more, not being sure if it ever is going to start, waiting some more, and then it starts.
How is stopping these days? I seem to remember there were about 79 reasons why Windows might not shutdown.
I have a Windows virtual machine that was doing this to me a lot, and making Ubuntu reboots take a long time, and then requiring a disk check after the unclean shutdown.
I found a registry key that tells Windows to force stop apps that block shutdown. I may lose an unsaved document once in a while but I would have lost it anyway, and I am pretty good about saving things when necessary.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop AutoEndTasks REG_SZ 1
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#27I can't remember the last time I used Windows search because it's worse than useless - there have been multiple occasions in the past where it can't even find a file in the current folder right in front of my eyes. Nowadays I just use Everything which I think is one of the best piece of software ever.
I can't live without Everything!
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#28Anyone finally willing to admit that w10 is unusable on Hard Drives while Linux and W7 work fine on them?
Yep. Windows 7 would sometimes take a few minutes to finish whatever boot time disk i/o it wanted to do; for Windows 10 on a disk, it seemed to always be doing some i/o and never settled down.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#29On my current gaming PC (i7-7700) I have installed W10 in 2017 and... no problem whatsoever? SSD, 10s boot. idk how do people end up with all the problems. I'm really curious because there must be an underlying reason
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Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#30On my current gaming PC (i7-7700) I have installed W10 in 2017 and... no problem whatsoever? SSD, 10s boot. idk how do people end up with all the problems. I'm really curious because there must be an underlying reason
Great question. I'm wondering the same thing. I also built a PC in 2017 and installed Windows 10 on it. It initially had a 7s boot time following bios startup. Several updates later, the boot time is now close to a minute and app startup times are noticeably slower as well. I've always been very careful about what software I install on it. I've done all of the standard troubleshooting, but so far it hasn't gotten bad…
Task Manager → "Start up" tab
Disable everything and see if it boots faster.