>On a related note I used one of those system event monitor programs (I forget the name) and ran a 1 line Hello World C program, the result was windows doing hu

>On a related note I used one of those system event monitor programs (I forget the name) and ran a 1 line Hello World C program, the result was windows doing hundreds of registry reads and writes before and after running my one line of code. You were probably using Sysinternals process monitor. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro... Windows does a tonne of things in the background, yes. If I run that and let it monitor everything, things will happen even if I do nothing. It is an OS and complex. >It is shown instantly, fully rendered, in the next video frame. There is no delay THIS is true and also crazy to me. I forgot how fast XP was. Especially on modern hardware. I TeamViewer into a laptop with an i5 CPU and Windows XP (medical clients...) and it felt faster than my more powerful local machine!! I have set my sysdm.cpl performance settings to this, and it does help a bit to get rid of the animations and crap. https://imgur.com/a/jlre36e https://imgur.com/a/jlre36e Yea... I like the 10 start menu but they destroyed it in 11...