Since Windows 11 24H2 update everything runs slow and takes longer to load

Anonymous
2024-12-10T18:50:22+00:00

Ever since this update, my system takes a long time before it's fully up to speed. I'm talking 10 minutes or more. Even the opening screen where I enter my PIN takes longer to come up. After entering the pin, it takes a while for the app icons to show on the desktop and even then the taskbar arrives later. I can't get Outlook or Chrome to launch right away. It can take minutes for them to load and be responsive.

Even after the system is functioning more normally, it is still slower than before the update. Emails take a few seconds longer to open up. Files take longer to open. Chrome tabs take longer to show.

I've checked Task Manager. My CPU is at less than 10% and my RAM at 59% with apps open. Hard disk doesn't show a lot of activity. I've looked at processes and don't see anything that's consuming a lot of resources. Nothing obvious is showing up. I've made sure to turn off a lot of apps at start up that were unnecessary.

I've also turned off sys.main. Before that, everything was even slower and more annoying than what I have already described. Two other annoying things I've discovered. Microsoft turned off Malwarebytes and turned on Defender anti-virus without my permission. It also turned on Edge. None of these things should have been activated without asking my permission. The update should keep every app the way it was either turned on or off.

24H2 has changed something in my computer that affects all activity and load times. It is not hardware related.

I have a fairly fast cpu, ram and SSD disk access speed. This is a gaming computer. It worked fast before the update. I've made a few adjustments to speed things up but those were not necessary before 24H2.

Don

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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Anonymous
2025-03-05T20:54:52+00:00

I do enjoy reading the replies...they will never just admit that their software is ****. Which is the reason for issues 90% of the time

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-01-09T02:20:26+00:00

    I've had Bitlocker before and even had it on slower computers with mechanical hard drives, yet 24H2 seems to have made so much slower on what is a newer Microsoft tablet with lot of capability.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T23:48:38+00:00

    Mark,

    I've discovered that all my software runs slower and is less responsive since the 24H2 update. This includes Outlook and Word (computer version, not 365) and Chrome among others. Outlook is really slow in bringing up emails sometimes. Chrome can be delayed in displaying web pages. When I start up the computer, the hard drive is at 100% for over 10 minutes! There is something deep down inside of Windows 11 24H2 that appears to undermine all aspects of how a computer operates but it does not do this equally. That means some computers may work fine in certain areas but not others. After reading all the replies to my original post which have been overwhelming, I've decided to write a snailmail (yes, real mail with a stamp) to Satya Nadella, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft. I've written to CEO's of other major corporations in the past and had good results with their responses and fixes including Walmart and United Airlines. Worth a try since MS development team has been unresponsive to the need for major core improvements and fixes to Windows. Don

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T23:34:19+00:00

    I’m wondering whether slowness I am experiencing with Microsoft Access in Office 365 given Bob H your comment on “some O365 apps that need to be re-installed which may cause lagging”’and I recently did the 24H2 update.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-01-06T12:00:15+00:00

    Same problem and all my drivers are up to date. When is Microsoft going to take responsibility for issues instead of blaming it on the end user. Microsoft does not test features and updates, they simply release them and then let the customer test and report problems. It is not the computer, drivers or software. It is the OS that keeps causing problems. After Edge update, Edge started eating memory and would freeze. The features update slowed my laptop to and I spent hours going to registry to disable some of the changes to fix my laptop. I have a AMD Ryzen 5 with 8gb RAM, no additional programs running in the background and my system runs like an 8088 on Windows 3. The OS takes 54% of memory with a clean boot.

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