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Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
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Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#52I 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.
https://www.voidtools.com/
Concur - 'Everything' is one of the first tools I install on a fresh PC. Blazingly fast file-system search with many useful options
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#53My up-to-date Windows 10 on a 3 years old desktop takes 9 seconds to boot (I just benchmarked it). I don't remember it being way faster before.
So I wonder how OP gets 34 seconds, and how he went from 13 to 34 seconds over a couple of updates. Mine definitely didn't get 21 seconds slower.
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#54I built my mom a moderate Windows PC for her accounting work a few years ago. Pretty standard Intel build, no graphics card cause it's not like she needs that.
And for the most part it works fine, until every few months it'll slow down to an unusably slow crawl and I'll have to hop into task manager, see what rogue Windows service is bugging out this time, Google it, and find some forum post somewhere telling me what registry edit I have to do to disable some service that restores it to full speed.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not counting BIOS time it is about 5 seconds to Windows login on my Windows with NVMe systems. It does take about 20 seconds after login for it to finish loading all of the tiny startup notification icons, but that's actually intentional by Windows so it does not overload and prevent you from launching the apps you want. After login I can click on the web browser or email and it will launch instantly for me. If you a…
The point is, why does OP need to spend money on an SSD (and create e-waste in the process) when an HDD used to be reasonably fast for the same task?
hdd were never fast. the quick boot/startup times really started with SSDs.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks, that was the first thing I tried. I didn't want to go into great detail about my troubleshooting efforts because I don't think it's quite relevant to the overall discussion.
Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
#57All of the major slowdowns seem to pop up in build 1809, which is where the first Spectre/Meltdown mitigations were introduced, which is to be expected.
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#58One 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!
Same thing that gave me the kick to go over to Linux. Unfortunately I had a no-boot issue updating Fedora last week and had to do a complete re-install... at least I'm not paying for Fedora.
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#59The spike in there is really weird. I'm wonder if that's spectre mitigations causing the bulk of the slowdown. If that's the case I'd be curious to know if disabling them helps and if popular Linux distributions show similar performance loss.
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#60Anyone 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.
Windows usually does it automatically as part of a maintenance routine. Unless you were writing and deleting lots of files causing fragmentation, there isnt usually much to gain with manual runs.