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by marcodiego
1740 days ago
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I know two people who bought similar new but low specced laptops that came from factory with windows 10 about 10 months ago. Their laptops got visibly progressively slower. Considering what I read here, I asked them if they installed many software. They said they use the laptops for work only and haven't installed anything beyond office and antivirus. I asked them to take a look. After minutes after turning on, windows said it was installing updates... we waited... the battery went kapuft... we plugged the powerbrick, turned it on again and waited... windows said it was installing updates... after a new reboot and 40 minutes total of waiting I just gave up. Now, this is not how an EXPENSIVE OS should behave. An expensive OS that behaves like this and still has ads is definitely something I'd only use if there was no other choice. |
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The most likely culprit for the slow-downs is OEM crap pushed on the device, not Windows itself.
In my personal experience (I'm running 6 Windows PCs in the house for the family and myself) I never had any issue with Windows 10 becoming slower or updates getting in the way or any ads for that matter (except when they switched to the new Edge where a notification of sorts showed up once after boot and was easily dismissed).
For full disclosure, I am running PiHole on my network so it's possible that's somehow blocking some ad-related activity (though I'm yet to see any evidence of actual advertisement being shown in the OS except for stuff about integrated software like Edge and now Teams - hoping this doesn't change with Windows 11). I'm also running fairly powerful machines (nothing older than 4 years, even the kids have beefier laptops), so don't have experience with old / slow machines.