New Windows 10 update making everything slow

Yes, my friend I also am running a M.2, in my case I’m running a M.2 Samsung 950 Pro, I will give credit to where credit is due.

Lately in the Windows 10 Pro version, that’s what I’m running. The update has been excellent and I too am very happy with the recent updates.

For a while there, I frowned every time an update was released. Because for me it all to often meant that I was going to have to wipe my primary drive clean, after testing the update and it proved to slow my system way down, that it was so bad that I wasn’t left with any other option other then to wipe my M.2 Samsung 950 Pro SSD.

In one update, it literally took my system 30 minutes before I was allowed to sign into my desktop.

In those situations I tried everything, backing the update out, literally rolling it back, all to no avail.

This happened to me 3 times in a roll, to the point that I gave up trying to completely restore my rig.

It was faster to wipe the machine and restore it, over troubleshooting the PC and trying to repair it.

Now, the last 2 or 3 updates have been great, after the updates, I’ve been happy and have been successful at logging right in and I also hope that I continue being happy with Microsoft Updates.

So again, my hat off to Microsoft, but now if they can keep ahead of these hackers that have been relentless lately. It’s a shame, that there is such dark activity on the web. You would think that the major Corporation would have the highest security, but for me by experience I’ve found out other wise.

My cell phone company was hacked and as a result of the major hack, all my personal information is out there for the second time. The first time was with 1 of the 3 major credit reporting bureau.

Not only does Microsoft have to get their updates flawless, but the security for all systems across the USA must be secured.

The built in virus software in Windows is weak, I know from testing Microsoft System myself. I have purposely loaded or tried to install a program that had a virus in the thumb drive/program into a test machine that was running only the Windows 10 built in virus program and it failed to catch the virus loaded onto a thumb drive.

I then loaded McAfee, then Norton in Indepent test and both Virus Programs caught the file before I even had the chance to install the program. The McAfee & Norton Virus Programs caught the virus on the Thumb Drive the moment I inserted the drive into the USB Port.

So, common Microsoft, get it together!!

Looking at Task Manager and all the processes running it became apparent some dropbox service using a relatively small amount of resource just kept adding processes with increasing instances until the machine just maxed out (cpu, disk & memory were at 100%).  Since uninstalling dropbox the machine has been behaving normally.  I haven't tried reinstalling Dropbox, which I will do at some stage, but it is nice to have my machine "back".  If it isn't dropbox on your machine, perhaps have a look at what other apps / services could be doing something similar.  Cheers, David