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I have some old machines for retro purposes, including some Pentium 2s running Windows 98. Things take longer to load, that's for granted, but once something ru
by TonyTrapp 5y ago
I have some old machines for retro purposes, including some Pentium 2s running Windows 98. Things take longer to load, that's for granted, but once something runs it just feels infinitely more snappy than a modern desktop. This is not rose-tinted glasses misremembering how things were like 20 years ago; this is actually turning that machine on in the current decade and observing how an older version of the same software behaves on that machine vs on a modern Windows 10 machine.
- neurostimulant 5y agoJust for experimental purpose, you can try disabling all UI animation to make ui interactions instant [1], and perhaps disable ALL antivirus and their filesystem filter drivers as they make all disk access slower [2] (including windows defender, you can re-enable it again after you're finished messing around). See if those tweaks can actually make your computer as fast as the old machines. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-office-animations-9ee5c4d2-d144-4fd2-b670-22cef9fa025a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-office-a... [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/performance/deactivate-kernel-mode-filter-driver https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server...
- TonyTrapp 5y agoI did something similar a while ago by explicitly adding a call to disable all theming in an app. That way you can even make the window decorations look like old Win9x borders in Windows 10. Disabling theming makes window creation measurably faster, by a lot. That includes lack of animations for that specific app, of course.
- londons_explore 5y agoThe old machines had similar 'speed tweaks'. For example I ran my Windows 95 from a big ramdisk and it was blazing fast.