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

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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
    2024-12-21T18:54:13+00:00

    Even if you have a fast SSD, Windows 11 may have problems with file storage and fragmentation in some cases, especially after large updates. You can try optimizing the drive

    Are you seriously a technician? An SSD never needs to be fragmented. Defragmentation only matters for drives that use a physical mechanism, like a read/write head, to write out and read in data. It's because by keeping relevant data blocks adjacent to one another the head does not need to move around as much along the disk surface!

    The only thing the "optimize" function does on an SSD that's useful is execute the TRIM function, but that won't affect read speed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-12-21T21:42:10+00:00

    I had the same problem after the update was installed yesterday. Everything is so slow, VPN was blocked.
    In the end i decided to uninstall the update, which took 5 minutes.

    Re-started my machine and it is back performing fine.

    Thank you Tony, I had my VirtualBox having troubles creating network interfaces, the VM running super slow, uninstalling the update, all became normal!

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-12-22T02:09:43+00:00

    I too have the problem with a PC running slow after the 2 24H2 updates that where 2 days apart. The PC was fine until then. It also started to ask for a network password when I tried to run my main application over the network. In task manager the PC is not busy or low on recourses. Everything you do is slow.

    Lenovo Vantage didn't find any driver updates and also run their utility to clean the PC. Almost not usable at this point. Out of all the options you list what would be the best course of action, or all of them. I saw a video about bitlocker and turning it off. This PC is a slave on a network, Intel I5 Win 10 Pro updated to 11 Pro. I need the PC up and running and can't have it down.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-22T05:36:56+00:00

    As you are running Windows 11 pro, did you verify that MS didn't turn Bitlocker on? Run manage-bde -status in a powershell

    Rgds

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