Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
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Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
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Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#2Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow.
Soon I figured out it came with following crapware
1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it.
2. It came with Norton antivirus which consistently took up 10% CPU and large chunk of memory.
3. Some intel software which always squatted in background without telling me why it exists.
4. Lenovo's crapware
- There were 11 Lenovo software, each of which I had to uninstall separately. This included some rescue programs to some remote diagonistic programs to some internet security.
5. Did I mention Windows Update ? It was the shittiest of all. First it choked my bandwidth. It slowed down everything. Eventually my screen went blank and my machine restarted on it own. It took around 90 minutes for 71 updates to get applied. I dint even ask for them.
Even all this did not work so I had to change my display settings tuned for performance which is basically windows 95 look and feel for Windows 7.
Overall compared to my macbook which came with very less software but only something that worked as it was supposed to be.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#3Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Personally on this Win8 laptop I uninstalled McAfee first to switch to Windows Defender only to find Norton Online Backup was leaking memory too so I uninstalled it too and it was fine after that.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#4Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Personally on this Win8 laptop I uninstalled McAfee first to switch to Windows Defender only to find Norton Online Backup was leaking memory too so I uninstalled it too and it was fine after that.
At this point, it feels like Windows AV software makes a machine run far worse than would an actual virus.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#5Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Get machine, wipe HD, reinstall Windows, reinstall drivers.
Windows Update is an unfortunately necessary evil, it becomes more painful the longer it has been since a major Windows release.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#6Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Get machine, wipe HD, reinstall Windows, reinstall drivers. Windows Update is an unfortunately necessary evil, it becomes more painful the longer it has been since a major Windows release.
Since the last service pack especially.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally on this Win8 laptop I uninstalled McAfee first to switch to Windows Defender only to find Norton Online Backup was leaking memory too so I uninstalled it too and it was fine after that.
At this point, it feels like Windows AV software makes a machine run far worse than would an actual virus.
Windows Defender is pretty damn good, try it out. The performance overhead is pretty minimal and it is generally well behaved.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
At this point, it feels like Windows AV software makes a machine run far worse than would an actual virus.
Windows Defender is pretty damn good, try it out. The performance overhead is pretty minimal and it is generally well behaved.
Or MSE for pre-Win8 users. (Windows Defender only protects against spyware in pre-Win8)
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#9Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Get machine, wipe HD, reinstall Windows, reinstall drivers. Windows Update is an unfortunately necessary evil, it becomes more painful the longer it has been since a major Windows release.
Interestingly, the bricks-and-mortar Microsoft Stores seem to sell laptops with a version of Win 8 that has no crapware/bloatware and is optimized to run well; a lot like doing a fresh install.
Re: Microsoft drove the bus off the cliff, now it tries to speed up
#10Recently purchased a windows and to my horror, despite a i3 processor it was slower than my celeron PC running XP. There was no reason why a machine just unboxed should have been so slow. Soon I figured out it came with following crapware 1. Google chrome with Bing to be homepage and defautl search engine. I even suspected that Chrome Exe might be bloated so I reinstalled it. 2. It came with Norton antivirus which co…
Maybe the i3 has a ridiculously slow cpu clock? I had an i7 laptop for work that was painfully slower than an old c2d laptop i bought.
t520 i7 1.6ghz v t400 c2d 2.4ghz