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I'm sure it doesn't help, but even with all that stuff disabled it's bad. svchost.exe's mysterious machinations, windows updates, superfetch (or whatever they c
by feintruled 4y ago
I'm sure it doesn't help, but even with all that stuff disabled it's bad. svchost.exe's mysterious machinations, windows updates, superfetch (or whatever they call it now), one drive syncing, malware checking, app updates, it's like 'everything everywhere all at once' for Windows.
You can make a case for all those things, of course. Just why does it have to launch into them all immediately upon startup? On a beefier machine it's probably not noticeable but it's sad to see on older PCs when Windows 10 at launch was quite reasonable when it came to lower specs.
- GraemeMeyer 4y agoRecent versions of Win10 still perform quite well on old hardware for me - could be that you just need a clean install?
- feintruled 4y agoYes, clean install usually helps, but it wasn't my laptop so I didn't want to jump to extreme solutions straight away (otherwise I might have put Ubuntu on it!) I think what the main problem was they hadn't used it in a while and accumulated a backlog of mandatory Windows Updates. While these chugged away they got frustrated with an almost unresponsive computer, turned it off, install interrupted for the same thing to happen all over again. I can see how doing this stuff in the background makes sense as you don't necessarily want to bother the user with it, but when it impacts performance so badly maybe it's better to throw up the message and the progress bar. At least they know what's up!
- zekica 4y agoCouldn't have said it better, Windows 10 is the first Windows that does "Everything everywhere all at once" without any regard to what other resources are in use. It is basically unusable on any 5400rpm hard drive.