I changed to the Brave browser and eventually the suffering eased. It gets intolerable when windows wants you to update.
Why did Windows 11 suddenly become slow?
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I received notification from Windows a few months ago and upgraded to Windows 11. It was fast and smooth in the beginning, but in the last two-three weeks, it has become significantly slow. It annoys me a lot, simply file browsing has been painful. It takes forever to open a web site on Chrome. This never was the case before, my laptop used to be really fast. I am suspicious that this is because of recent Windows 11 updates. I just want to go back Windows 10 and have my laptop speed back.
Another issue in Windows 11 that annoys me a lot is the tabs in taskbar. They frequently disappear. For instance, if I have 5 apps open, suddenly all the icons in taskbar disappear and I have to restart file explorer to fix it.
How do I fix all these permanently, or go back to Windows 10?
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Anonymous
2023-09-03T20:24:16+00:00 Hi there, my PC has same characteristics...did you manage to solve this?
I made a test by starting my PC, and leave for a while without using any program or website...o noticed after 20min, the fan started running without any program running or website. The only thing I opened was this page to write this message, and I found it quite slow, even for typing, anybody knows the solution/explanation for this?
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Anonymous
2023-07-09T17:15:04+00:00 Google crome
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Anonymous
2023-07-09T17:12:24+00:00 I wanted to try Google Chrome but I had to get out of "S mode" to do it. I took a chance because the change is permanent. My computer is sooooo much faster now!
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That's great 😃 your computer is fast so awesome 💯%
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Anonymous
2023-07-09T17:02:51+00:00 I wanted to try Google Chrome but I had to get out of "S mode" to do it. I took a chance because the change is permanent. My computer is sooooo much faster now!
😁