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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John DeV 170.2K Reputation points Independent Advisor

2022-05-02T00:37:39+00:00

Hello Nijat,

Good day! I'm John Dev a Windows user like you and I'll be happy to assist you today. I know this has been difficult for you, Rest assured, I'm going to do my best to help you.

Please check the support article below on How to improve PC performance in Windows 11 if it helps.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/tip...

If this does not work, You can check and try Kapil Arya's tutorial guide below on How to Downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Kindly let me know if this helps or if you have any further concerns.

Kind regards,

John DeV

Independent Advisor
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Anonymous

2022-07-02T11:24:31+00:00

Hey Nijat,

First I tell you I am not from Microsoft Community, but I giving you one tip. Please download The Windows 11 21H2 version (OS Build : 22000.318) in your computer/laptop. Because when I download this version in my desktop I saw my computer running at very smooth, and my processor is Intel TM(R) Core 2 Duo and RAM 4 GB mean unsupported ver. But also my computer is faster for running this version of Windows 11 also I have a SSD 128 GB.

So I suggesting you Please install Windows 11 old version of 21H2. Don't install any 22H2 versions, otherwise it will start laggy. (Ex : 25126, 25136, 25140, 25152 OS Builds)

I also download this versions for only my greedy. But you know the Moral, Tit for Tat. When I download this versions my computer got very lag and stopped working.

So don't download Windows 11 high versions on your computer/laptop.

And What is your processor and RAM? please tell me.

Hope this tip will help you.

I have one more tip, you can download Windows 11 21H2 (OS Build : 22000.1, 22000,9 or 22000.51) versions
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Anonymous

2022-09-28T01:57:20+00:00

I have version 21H2 and browsing with Edge is irritatingly slow. Have 11th gen i7 processor, 16Gb RAM, 1Tb SSD. Working offline, or browsing with Google is OK.
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Anonymous

2022-10-09T12:20:28+00:00

My windows 11 has also become increasingly slow, my windows account is ******@gmail.com, Roblox is one of the most notable as I used to get 40fps, maybe even 60. Now its 15 and my ping is wayyy too high. (2k to 450) I'm up to date though and I dont really understand. Hope I can get advice.
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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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