Any chance some of this could be due to sidechannel exploit mitigation? The timing seems about right.
Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
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Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#42I'm not sure why they tested with disabled fast boot option? Why not disable every feature of system?
Fast boot from powerdown is the reason why I stop using other power down states. Just shut system down, and boot it up in 10-15 seconds.
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#43Anyone finally willing to admit that w10 is unusable on Hard Drives while Linux and W7 work fine on them?
Do people still think to defrag HDDs on windows? I wonder if that's an issue people are seeing.
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#44On 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
I think the Startup Processes really gets abused and people default to blame Windows for it. My time to a usable desktop seemed slow until I removed Teams, Steam, Dropbox and some other update utilities from Startup. Now it's pretty much instant.
I keep mine startup fairly clean and this is key to a 'fast startup'. There are about 10 different ways applications can auto start in windows and you have too check them all, as all will be used. My laptop from 2012 is 10-30 seconds. My laptop from last year is usually under 10. My NUC from 2011 is about 30 seconds and has been consistently that for the time I have owned it. Also on older computers check to see if it is thermal throttling. As the fans/paste can stop being effective and just need to be cleaned up after some time.
My parents bought this rubish computer about 3 years ago it is easily 3-5 mins to startup. Which is due to a lack of RAM (3GB, which should be plenty) and windows swapping to startup. Plus a bunch of startup apps they 'just can not live without'. I remove them, and get 'wow the computer is so much faster'. Few months later and some update to that 'must have' app will put itself back into the startup (sigh).
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#45Anyone finally willing to admit that w10 is unusable on Hard Drives while Linux and W7 work fine on them?
This has been precisely my experience. Windows 7 was fast on an HDD and blazing fast on a SSD. Windows 10 is unusable on an HDD and usable on an SSD. Still kinda sluggish, even then, for what it's worth.
Not to mention the applications. A slow operating system that uses so much resources merely idling plus Applications-That-Are-Actually-Web-Browsers make day to day usage almost innavigable for someone with quick reflexes used to a Linux CLI.
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#46I built a Windows PC after 3 years of using my 15 inch 2018 MBP (which is by far the worst machine I have owned considering the price).
Windows has gone to shit, I have visual glitches in the UI using dark mode (even the search box on bottom left doesn't render correctly in dark mode until I hover it). They preinstall some shitty "news" bar right there on the task bar and hide disabling it behind a submenu of a right click on taskbar. Start menu search goes online by default and misdirects me because of it (I disabled it quickly).
Using a 5k monitor and display scaling is very iffy as well compared to MacOS.
I'm waiting on next get M1 and then I'm using the Windows box as a docker server I'll SSH into and maybe play some games. But using it as a daily driver is really underwhelming. I would use Linux desktop but from what I've heard HDPI scaling is even worse.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#47For me, every update seems to trigger some. NET compilation in the background (if I remember right). This process destroys your disk while it runs, and contributes a lot to the slowness in my experience.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#48I'm not sure why they tested with disabled fast boot option? Why not disable every feature of system? Fast boot from powerdown is the reason why I stop using other power down states. Just shut system down, and boot it up in 10-15 seconds.
Because fastboot turns shutdown into something closer to hibernation, vs the shutdowns of yore. The author was trying to test a true cold-state, startup, vs what Microsoft claims is a start up, but isn’t really.
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#49I 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.
FileLocator Pro is another nice one. It's handled my Ctrl+F hotkey ever since the early days of Win7. Doesn't index, but uses techniques that quickly scan the MFT.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#50I 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.
For me Windows Explorer search became useful when I learned about its syntax. I can't remember it exactly right now, but I think it's something like `name:*.jpg` for example (and worst thing is it's localized, so you have to use whatever Windows Language you use). This way it does not try to be smart and just searches for file names. I think that in default mode it searches inside an indexed files or something like t…
Advanced Query Syntax https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/lwef/-search-...
Quite useful