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
    2023-04-06T09:26:49+00:00

    Hi Fellow sufferers

    Thanks for your messages.

    The strangest thing is that MS just does not seem to bother.

    Releasing updates which has not gone thru the full testing cycle perhaps on various systems!

    A systinfo run shows >90% memory in use (8GB)!! With No Applications OPEN!!!

    Even after installation of consolidated Win 11 updates as suggested by some here.

    Now even Win10 reset shows the same issues!

    Funny thing is that on IOS which is oh so stable, the same MS Office packages work at blazing speeds! Having got used to the Win keyboard options and shortcuts, stuck to this horrible WIN OS. Plus the cost of having an Apple Desktop puts one off. MS seems to be exploiting customers like us to the hilt!

    Looking forward to some early solution.

    Wondering whether an increased RAM will help

    shankar

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T11:59:08+00:00

    Seems like many of us have the same problem without a solution. It would appear reasonable Microsoft would want to solve this problem. I am still looking for a solution and will continue to monitor the message board until it is solved.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T14:06:56+00:00

    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.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T15:49:43+00:00

    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]

    (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    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>

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T16:58:46+00:00

    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 !

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