Why did Windows 11 suddenly become slow?

Anonymous
2022-05-02T00:02:31+00:00

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?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Windows update

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-12-29T05:33:12+00:00

    I have a high end pc. It is working very quick and responsive normally. But sometimes it became very slow. When i investigate why is slowing down. There is not any clue. CPU, memory and disk usage very low but it is working very slow. If this three important hardware not causing slowing down how can i find the problem?

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-04T21:16:32+00:00

    I went back to Widows 10 but windows 11 just refused to let me stay there. Now windows 11 is as slow as a wet week and i cant find all "the things" i used to need. Just leave the bloody thing alone until it works If I want windows 10 just leave me be ask once a year...

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-03-19T19:55:39+00:00

    Ryzen 9 6900HX Here ... I just upgraded to a factor 4 faster laptop (Had an i5 8250U) ... clean install from manufacturer. After a couple of updates, lags, slowness and a lot of annoying tips and advertising. Not amazing.

    • I notice MS Edge is trying to push stuff towards us with worthless new sidebars, widgets, features.
    • Windows store... massive loading times and repaint overtime issues. (I see som ReactJS like behaviour)
    • MSN bugs me in my the taskbar and search page of edge with worthless clickbait.

    Compared to my older i5, not much difference, so I guess a lot of web-requests behind the scene.

    They did however implement a new feature 'Dont disturb/focus', which doesn't help duh, so I hereby request a 'Dont Bug Me Seriously!' feature.

    And well, I guess Apple already knows and is expecting new clients. Pfff.... I just bought.... :'(

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-11T19:09:11+00:00

    Window's 10 is faster than Windows 11

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-10-11T22:04:27+00:00

    ya I just noticed this too; is it temporarily to collect emergent cyberthreats maneuvering pointers and data to avoid detection by av?

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