I agree, and this puzzles me. How can something that has existed since Windows 95, almost thirty years ago, be _changed_ to be so slow?
I get rendering changes: taskbar buttons are squares without text now, it uses transparent effects, etc. Or the Start menu having different containers inside, though I'd still expect each UI container to behave speedily. What I don't understand is the delay clicking in the search field, or why right-clicking a taskbar button has a perceptible moment before the context menu appears. What have they changed? Is it built with one of their new UI .Net layers, or WinUI3? Is it a custom menu implementation that someone wrote without thinking they reinvented the wheel? What on earth is going on?
If only it was built using .NET and WinUI, chances are it would've not been so slow (though I did hear complaints about WinUI not prioritizing .NET enough...lots of C++-only mindshare there, and Windows teams have been decimated many times by all kinds of restructuring from what I heard anyways, not expecting much)
Also a fun one:
There are two cloud drive clients, one uses WinUI and is snappy using ~100MiB of RAM, another one is written with React Native and uses ~250MiB of RAM. Which one is written by Apple and which one by Microsoft?
I got hit by this fact hard on the first (and only) device I upgraded, a Surface Pro 6. Second(s) lag on just opening the Start menu with nothing else running, long delays when loading the file Explorer, I suffered through it for a bit just assuming it was "warming up" with post upgrade operations.
After suffering through it long enough, I downgraded it back to 10 with a fresh install and it felt like a different device.
I feel a little bad for Microsoft. They clearly believe they have to find new things to add to their OS for the sake of adding things and justifying the upgrade. And this is likely just from teams that want to show impact (i.e. keep their jobs).
Win 10, for all it's faults, has served me well. I'd be happy to continue using it for a long time. But that doesn't make the stock price go up.
Try disabling the Bing integration. Add DWORD registry key and value DisableSearchBoxSuggestions = 1 to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer
Classic case of a network call being slower than staying on the local computer (someone in Redmond should have known better)
I get rendering changes: taskbar buttons are squares without text now, it uses transparent effects, etc. Or the Start menu having different containers inside, though I'd still expect each UI container to behave speedily. What I don't understand is the delay clicking in the search field, or why right-clicking a taskbar button has a perceptible moment before the context menu appears. What have they changed? Is it built with one of their new UI .Net layers, or WinUI3? Is it a custom menu implementation that someone wrote without thinking they reinvented the wheel? What on earth is going on?