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
    2023-05-10T17:06:45+00:00

    I've found that Win 11 is slower than Win 10, but when an update is downloaded and has not yet been installed, it becomes excruciatingly slow. I mean, I end up wanting to grab a sledgehammer and I fear that I will have a stroke cursing at my laptop. It seems these updates just put the brakes on the whole system until you relent and install. The problem is that these updates stop me in the middle of my work day when 5-6 people are waiting me to fix things for hundreds of customers. Today, before realizing an update was waiting for installation, I honestly said "I $#! HATE MICROSOFT" a good many times before deciding I should reboot before having a coronary. When I opened the start menu, I saw the sinister orange dot indicating an update was waiting, no wonder.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-10T17:13:09+00:00

    You might try setting your system to perform the automatic updates during the middle of the night, that way you don't have to worry about work interruptions.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-05-10T17:32:08+00:00

    I've done that, but it never seems to happen.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-11T01:41:44+00:00

    markc_414 your post reminds me of that one TV show called Space Force. Everyone starts to curse when Microsoft pushes an update in the middle of an important operation. There is a short clip on YouTube you should look it up, it is fun. It will help you feel better knowing that you are not alone. Anyway, don't bother trying to speed up Win 11. Just go back to Win 10.

    Also, I usually pause updates for up to more than a month and tune the settings not to install anything automatically. Don't forget to manually enable, download and install updates at least once a month.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-05-11T04:42:55+00:00

    Since my forced WINDOWS11 install 2 months ago, my pc use has been beyond frustrating.

    Slow response, background overhead eating up runtime resources. Application response very slow, boot up takes >5 minutes, EDGE performance is terrible.... and on and on.

    All concurrent with WIN11 'update'!

    I am not alone.

    What testing was done prior release? Rhetorical, as apparently it was not adequate.

    I am gonna be forced to leave the Microsoft [frustrated] 'family'.

    Hi

    Thanks for your post. I found a temporary solution just 2 days back, not fully solving, but partially. Disable MSEDGE in startup. Make any other browser your default one. While working in MSOffice apps, pause synching to Onedrive. After that resume synch when idle. When not in use, close MSOUTLOOK or use some other mail apps

    Won't help solve boot time delays. Won't fully solve slowness or NOT RESPONDING issues in MS apps fully. But at least it will enable reasonable productivity.

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