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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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This is my situation in a nutshell. I thought I was getting a current system with plenty of RAM and graphics, NVidia RTX 3060, and a modern OS. This OS harkens me back to the days of suffering through Windows ME. Tried all the "fixes" that were offered by MS, no relief. Trying to decide whether to wipe and find a copy of Win 10, or continue suffering through until they finally fix this Windows ME 2, the sequel.
Thanks. Done that too, no luck.
This is horrific!
Mine is i5 only, much lower config, but issue started after Win 11 updates around 11th to 16 th feb 2023. I hear that MS EDGE is the culprit. Even the Task Manager often does not open to kill a process and all apps simple gets frozen like the old Win 7 times. MS sucks and they talk grand about AI & stuff to make life easy! When they cannot get the OS right !
I used the Microsoft System File Checker tool to fix any issues with Windows files and then I was able to download and install the latest Microsoft update and once that was completed the issue was resolved
I ran this about 3 times, before I installed the updates.
May be some files are missing or corrupted.
sfc scannow - Search (bing.com)
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1485]
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C:\Windows\System32>sfc /scannow
Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 100% complete.
Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
C:\Windows\System32>
We have Lenovo laptops running 11th gen i7 processors and 32gb of DDR4 ram and a 1TB SSD hard drive at our company and several of us have extreme latency on our systems, especially when booting up and just after logging into windows. The boot time for me takes about 5 minutes to get to the login screen and after logging in the taskbar doesn't show up for a good 2 minutes before I can click on anything and when I click something on the taskbar it responds 30+ seconds later. Things start to improve after about 3 minutes from the time I log in but I have the system on best performance setting and it still lags all day and the fan runs at full speed all day and the system is loud and runs hot. Another associate in my company says his win 11 laptop takes him 30 minutes to reboot and get everything up and running. I have installed all of the latest lenovo and windows updates on both of our systems and nothing has helped. If anything, the issue gets worse with each update or stays the same. Very frustrated as I never thought i'd see the day that a modern i7 chip wth 32gb of ram would struggle running windows, but now i have.
