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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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I wish I could, but I'm not rich, like u, LOL. The more I use W11, the more I hate it, and I hated W10 too. And this AI stuff is ludicrous. I asked it why it kept asking me the same question and wanted to know if it had memory problems and it got very curt with me and ended the conversation, what a joke.
Same problem here. After the last two updates to Edge, it has become bloated and slow. With one tab open it consumes over 500mb of memory. Edge constantly freezes for a few seconds when multiple tabs are open. I have a Ryzen 5 with 16gb Ram and two NVMe drives rated for over 5000Mbps.
The chat feature totally destroyed Edge and now browsing is so slow I use Firefox often. The security features they put in Edge caused a lot of websites to quit working. I don't have an Ad Blocker installed yet many financial sites I use to browse now tell me to disable my Ad Blocker to continue. Microsoft needs to give me the option of what features I want in Edge. Typical Microsoft to take a perfectly good functioning piece of software and bloat it and kill it.
DUCK MICROSOFT!!!!!!!!!!!! hahaha
Exactly, I have a powerful windows machine but windows 11 has made it difficult to use. random BSOD and errors, often slows down for no reason.
Bought a mac and it is flying through everything. Even non-native apps run smoother.
I think I can confirm this helps. I was using Edge until I was forced into Win 11. About the same time, one of the sites I used started putting up so many ads that I couldn't see the content. I couldn't use an ad blocker extension because the site would block page viewing.
I changed over to Brave, which, like Chrome and Edge, is also a Chromium browser, but basically eliminates ads without web sites being able to detect it. I highly recommend Brave. Yes, it's free.
