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

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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.

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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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2024-12-20T13:02:34+00:00

microsoft you are more and more lousy
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2024-12-20T14:45:59+00:00

This is pretty crazy. We see people being told to modify their systems, but we don't see anyone from Microsoft admitting what is apparent by surfing the web and reading thousands of user experiences - the Windows 11 24H2 update has bugs that are causing the lag / slow speeds that many people, even those with powerful systems and good PC maintenance practices, have been affected by.

We should not have to "reset" or "tweak" expensive high-end systems that we diligently keep updated / tuned, and that have been running Windows 11 23H2 with no performance issues.

I'm extremely diligent about driver updates, BIOS / Firmware updates, system cleanliness and maintenance practices, and my laptop workstation (which is not used for gaming or recreation - it is 100% strictly for work) main specs are as follows:

Microsoft Windows 11 Pro Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100

SYSTEM: Dell XPS 15 9520

BIOS: Version 1.28.0 (Dec 17th, 2024)

CPU: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H 2300 MHz (24MB Cache, up to 4.7 GHz, 14 Cores, 20 Logical Processors)

RAM: 32GB DDR5 4800MHz

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4GB GDDR6

DRIVE: Samsung M.2 PCIe NVMe PM9A1 1TB SSD

(All drivers and firmware always kept up to date, file system well maintained)

Before 24H2 this system was blazing fast!

After the 24H2 update, apps open slower, there is significant lag on even simple tasks such as clicking / opening File Explorer, and the system's boot / restart time has doubled.

So, yeah... I'm one of the many unfortunates who found out the hard way and ended up searching the web / finding threads like this one all over many chats and forums. SMH

Putting the blame on users and/or expecting us to spend hours overhauling our systems (translation - act as beta testers and accommodate bugs) over a Windows Update is not OK.
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2024-12-20T15:31:10+00:00

Admittedly though I am also frustrated, these types of comments don't help resolve issues.
Not only those comments, but with hundreds of teams, and thousands of employees working on Windows systems, I would love to hear how you would resolve the issues with their pacing and release schedule. I for one can barely make a 200-user app work consistently.

If you have new insights, or hardware features you think may be unique to help troubleshoot, all of us, those outside Microsoft and others, would appreciate hearing from you.

With that being said, we've (our company IT team) noticed that the issues we've been seeing can also be reduced a fair bit by cleaning up/rebuilding your user profile.

Since we're on a domain that's simpler for us than single system users.
We've also tried copying less in our user migrations to limit the amount of bad data being carried over.
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2024-12-20T15:39:44+00:00

The whole problem is Microsoft is telling us to tweak/ware down our hardware to get the performance we used to. They really need to prioritize the community and getting these fixes if they really want us to stay with Windows. This is a billion dollar company letting simple mistakes upstate the whole community. I’m sorry this happened.

You can reset your pc or use recovery options to fix it.

Otherwise you can wait for a bug fix to wait.
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