New Windows 10 update making everything slow

Anonymous
2020-01-17T00:52:20+00:00

So apparently Windows decided to automatically update itself while I was away from the PC. When I’m trying to log in, it takes ridiculously long (around 30-40 minutes). So I tried restarting, but startup is SUPER slow to the point that I’m stuck waiting for a black screen of death. Why is my PC slow after this recent update?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-23T20:12:06+00:00

    sfc scan now, dude!    isn't that the answer for everything on here?  or the other popular one is that it's your fault man.   you are doing everything wrong.    

    do what the rest of us have already done.   WIPE YOUR DRIVE AND DUMP WINDOWS 10 AND INSTALL LINUX MINT.

    5 months and counting for me and i haven't had one single issue since!   the best part is coming back on this "expert" site and seeing the mounting complaints about what is the worst os of all time.  

    just get rid of it dude.    linux mint is a thousand times less hassle.    do it!   your life will be so much happier! 

    How many windows apps will run with Linux? I have laser burning, vinyl cutting, graphics etc. will I lose all of them?

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-22T13:04:35+00:00

    Dear Greg --

    I have the same problem.  I haven't tried any of your approaches yet,; I'll need to set aside a whole day.  But I just want to give you a big thank you for composing the email, and assembling instructions that are as clear as could be given the little information you have.

    Each update in 2020-2021 has noticeably slowed my computer, to the point that it's now taking 45 and 50 seconds to load routine pages (like Firefox startup screen, gmail screen that lists 50 messages, etc.)  The updates of 2021 are especially bad.

    Microsoft, please stop.  It seems that there's a finite set of good ideas for operating systems.  It seems that that finite supply was exhausted in 2004 or so.   That was the year that the ratio of worthless/bad/slowdown-with-no-benefit/bury-useful-things-under-uselessly-deep-menus changes to Windows crossed over the ratio of good ideas (Vista and Office 2007).  Please stop.  Please stop.  Please stop.  Or else give us a switch we can set to disable all updates except urgent security updates.

    Thank you Greg, no thank you Microsoft.

    David

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-11T12:15:14+00:00

    Hi John,

    I have Just re-imaged my SSD and am happy to say that my Laptop is performing at lightning speed.

    Takes about 10-15 secs to boot.

    If it starts to slow down I will just re-image my SSD.

    Again I save all my data onto a separate removable disk for safe keeping, thus I have no issues re-imaging the SSD.

    All the Best

    Cheers NT

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-11T12:06:23+00:00

    Hi Richard

    All I did was to create an image (Ghost) of my Brand New Installation of Win10(Yuk) and thus far it is running pefectly touch wood.

    When it starts to slow down all I will do is re-install Windows 10. As I stated previously all my data is backed onto a separate disk thus I do not lose any data and my primary apps eg. Office Acrobat etc get re-installed. I use Samsung software and it takes in all about 20 minutes to re-install my 500Gb SSD.

    Cheers

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