Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?

Post by mulmen » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 1:01 AM UTC

brudgers wrote: post #309

mulmen wrote: post #288

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This was the "free" upgrade to 10 from 7. It only offered in-place upgrades. I didn't want to go through the pain of an actual fresh install. I don't really understand why Microsoft couldn't (didn't) give the option to install to a new drive while upgrading.

The upgrade is still free…or at least they still are for me in the US as recently as earlier this year…I have an old Vostro that gets so little use it is faster to reinstall W10 from scratch than upgrade. The same was true for the old Precision workstation a couple of years ago when I gave it to my kid. And several other machines including a Win7 Thinkpad off eBay. My advice is download the installation tool and give…

At the time Microsoft made threats that the free upgrade path would expire.

Post by kroltan » Tue, Jun 29, 2021, 5:01 PM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #398

kroltan wrote: post #254

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Right? I opened a Windows XP VM inside my 10 box a bit ago to play an old game, and oh boy was that incredibly snappy compared to what we have now. Sure, it's running in anachronistic hardware, but where did we go wrong? 3.1 was before my time, but I can imagine.

I remember XP not being able to paint windows or move the mouse cursor at descent frame-rate under load. It was so bad compared to Mac OS X from the same time.

Neither does Windows 10, my mouse frequently stutters on the first few minutes after booting, and I don't use any particularly invasive customizations.

Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?

Re: Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?