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
    2023-10-29T02:25:45+00:00

    Thanks Lucas. Yes, thiis was my issue, much worse. Finally In contacted Dell, the mnfr of my Desktop once again and told them that they need to fix this issue which seems hardware related. They did a lot of online checks and then replaced the RAM and disk drive after which the system started working fine. I am not very sure whether the H/W conking out was due to the Win Update or not but now I have got system back, upgraded to latest WIN11 version and things are working fine. Just for information

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-29T01:33:53+00:00

    I have this issue in some ways. When I updated to the latest Windows version around 3 weeks ago. my file explorer began crashing randomly and losing icons for my desktop and files before reloading and fixing itself. I have also noticed my drive speed now takes 5 minutes to download a 3mb video besides being able to download a file as big as 2gb in around 5mins before hand.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-09-03T22:30:40+00:00

    I changed to the Brave browser and eventually the suffering eased. It gets intolerable when windows wants you to update.

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  4. 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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  5. Anonymous
    2023-07-09T17:15:04+00:00

    Google crome

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