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I am on Windows 11 - first time with W11 and been running it for a week++; I looked this morning when my machine was running slow, to try and see what it was, m

I am on Windows 11 - first time with W11 and been running it for a week++; I looked this morning when my machine was running slow, to try and see what it was, my uptime was 2D6H+ so I rebooted and that didnt solve it. I have the newest flagship laptop from HP Omen RTX3070 and Ryzen 58000 or something... I am only using my browser, FF, and its still acting weird slow.. Any thoughts?

GrumpyNl 5y ago
Ctr-alt-delete/ task manager, will show you what is using the most cpu.
- binarycrusader 5y ago
  Ctrl+Shift+Esc is the superior shortcut in my opinion ;)
  - samstave 5y ago
    same, and I have done all this -- the issue is my box is subjectively and obviously lagging, but perfmon shows like zero util... Its just weird.
    - noxer 5y ago
      Move any windows around if it is not instant, save everything (just in case) and kill dwm.exe (DWM will restarts on its own) Seems to be a bug that it slowly gets slower and slower especially if many windows are open.
      - samstave 5y ago
        I couldnt find that process in W11... however - I did a hard reboot and it came back to normal, but first I went in and turned off a lot of autostart cruft - but after doing that I rebooted and it still didnt fix it until the hard reset.
        noxer 5y ago
        Its name is simply "Desktop Window Manager" but the process is dwm.exe the file is under \Windows\system32\dwm.exe Its defensively there without it there would be no desktop environment visible.
        samstave 5y ago
        Ah - I am an ideout. I was looking for "DWM.EXE" in Here: https://i.imgur.com/qz53ome.png https://i.imgur.com/qz53ome.png And as you can see, I didnt equate the two. --- An aside: this really reveals how much knowledge in one's field disappears over the years... I have been a windows admin and everything since windows 3.1....... etc. But when youre doing other things years after that, on the 'meta' levels, if you will.... christ - I used to bullseye Exchange DB Corruption in my IBM T42 back home. They're not much bigger than a couple hundred gigs.
hmrr 5y ago
I get that on my fairly high end Windows 10 laptop. I resort to rebooting it nightly. Windows Defender does like to go completely nuts occasionally as well. I've got to complain though. I spend more time pissing around working around issues than doing anything productive on this infernal pile of dung.
- ziml77 5y ago
  Windows Defender is one of the worst AV when it comes to performance impact. I would rather have no AV than deal with its overhead (I am running third-party AV software though).
  - hmrr 5y ago
    Annoying because it used to be pretty good.
xdfgh1112 5y ago
I dual boot with manjaro and Windows is significantly slower. It's probably just Windows.
Destitute 5y ago
I think after about a week, the Windows Search Index goes to work. I only noticed it because it caused my mouse cursor to go from pointer to hourglass every 2 seconds. Went on for about 3 or 4 days.

GrumpyNl 5y ago

Ctr-alt-delete/ task manager, will show you what is using the most cpu.

binarycrusader 5y ago
Ctrl+Shift+Esc is the superior shortcut in my opinion ;)
- samstave 5y ago
  same, and I have done all this -- the issue is my box is subjectively and obviously lagging, but perfmon shows like zero util... Its just weird.
  - noxer 5y ago
    Move any windows around if it is not instant, save everything (just in case) and kill dwm.exe (DWM will restarts on its own) Seems to be a bug that it slowly gets slower and slower especially if many windows are open.
    - samstave 5y ago
      I couldnt find that process in W11... however - I did a hard reboot and it came back to normal, but first I went in and turned off a lot of autostart cruft - but after doing that I rebooted and it still didnt fix it until the hard reset.
      - noxer 5y ago
        Its name is simply "Desktop Window Manager" but the process is dwm.exe the file is under \Windows\system32\dwm.exe Its defensively there without it there would be no desktop environment visible.
        samstave 5y ago
        Ah - I am an ideout. I was looking for "DWM.EXE" in Here: https://i.imgur.com/qz53ome.png https://i.imgur.com/qz53ome.png And as you can see, I didnt equate the two. --- An aside: this really reveals how much knowledge in one's field disappears over the years... I have been a windows admin and everything since windows 3.1....... etc. But when youre doing other things years after that, on the 'meta' levels, if you will.... christ - I used to bullseye Exchange DB Corruption in my IBM T42 back home. They're not much bigger than a couple hundred gigs.

hmrr 5y ago

I get that on my fairly high end Windows 10 laptop. I resort to rebooting it nightly. Windows Defender does like to go completely nuts occasionally as well. I've got to complain though. I spend more time pissing around working around issues than doing anything productive on this infernal pile of dung.

ziml77 5y ago
Windows Defender is one of the worst AV when it comes to performance impact. I would rather have no AV than deal with its overhead (I am running third-party AV software though).
- hmrr 5y ago
  Annoying because it used to be pretty good.

xdfgh1112 5y ago

I dual boot with manjaro and Windows is significantly slower. It's probably just Windows.

Destitute 5y ago

I think after about a week, the Windows Search Index goes to work. I only noticed it because it caused my mouse cursor to go from pointer to hourglass every 2 seconds. Went on for about 3 or 4 days.