Windows 10

Mel_P · 23 Dec 2016 at 18:07

slipd said:
Tips for improving general system slowness/browser responsiveness?

Just looked at my Dad's PC and it was dog-slow... he's says it's been like it since a recent update but before I start rolling things back I thought I'd check in here

Any thoughts? He's completely clean of virus's/malware etc.

Acronis can slow windows down unless you update it. I found it was very slow to start up until I updated Acronis.

Mynight · 26 Dec 2016 at 16:23

Is windows 10 boot time to login screen slower than windows 7/8?

Just wondering if I've borked the install somehow or it's slower generally.

Taking about 25 seconds to get to login screen.

Rroff · 26 Dec 2016 at 16:32

Mynight said:
Is windows 10 boot time to login screen slower than windows 7/8?

Just wondering if I've borked the install somehow or it's slower generally.

Taking about 25 seconds to get to login screen.

I've found it very random - not sure if sometimes it is doing update stuff - Win 7 and especially 8 consistently start faster for me.

NeilF · 26 Dec 2016 at 17:21

Mynight said:
Is windows 10 boot time to login screen slower than windows 7/8?

Just wondering if I've borked the install somehow or it's slower generally.

Taking about 25 seconds to get to login screen.

The boot up is slow a good few times after installation... You'll find it speeds up once it's sorted itself...

MagicBoy · 26 Dec 2016 at 18:57

Mynight said:
Is windows 10 boot time to login screen slower than windows 7/8?

Just wondering if I've borked the install somehow or it's slower generally.

Taking about 25 seconds to get to login screen.

Should be a lot quicker than 7, a tad quicker than 8.

Windows 10 has Fast Startup enabled by default which saves a known good OS startup state to a file and restores on startup. Think of it as a bare bones hibernation file with the kernel, system services and device drivers only. Changes to drivers, and windows updates will slow down the next couple of boots as it will likely do a full initialisation.

mrk · 27 Dec 2016 at 00:17

Just migrated my system to a new build (gone from MSI P67A-G45 to Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming) and am really impressed by how Windows 10 handled the new mobo and associated connected hardware.

Absolutely everything worked just fine, first boot Windows pre-logon said it was configuring devices, then logon screen popped up.

All I had to do was re-activate Windows and that was it.

I knew Windows 10 system upgrades would be easy, just not this easy

As it stands, I've now had the same base install since 2009, just been doing OS upgrades each time and keeping the OS well maintained. Boot to desktop time is still ~20 secs, although this is without turbo boot enabled in the BIOS.

KnightStalker · 27 Dec 2016 at 00:28

Hey guys, been running windows 10 for a while, but noticed in the store app, in the app update list ive got Feedback Hub, and it wont update giving an error code 0x803f8001, dont understand whats wrong.

Rroff · 27 Dec 2016 at 12:00

MagicBoy said:
Should be a lot quicker than 7, a tad quicker than 8.

Windows 10 has Fast Startup enabled by default which saves a known good OS startup state to a file and restores on startup. Think of it as a bare bones hibernation file with the kernel, system services and device drivers only. Changes to drivers, and windows updates will slow down the next couple of boots as it will likely do a full initialisation.

Not been my experience - sometimes it boots up about as fast as 8 but is often quite varied - my Windows 8 systems consistent boot very quickly but 10 wander about and not really that much faster than 7 on average - though my 7 systems generally are well optimised.

MagicBoy · 27 Dec 2016 at 13:02

I've mainly been testing Windows builds on the same corporate ThinkPads at work so YMMV. As with everything PC, there's near infinite variations of hardware. Also depends on the boot mode - UEFI is quicker to startup.

opethdisciple · 28 Dec 2016 at 21:39

Creators update possibly coming with 'game mode'.

Robert · 30 Dec 2016 at 20:55

mrk said:
Just migrated my system to a new build (gone from MSI P67A-G45 to Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming) and am really impressed by how Windows 10 handled the new mobo and associated connected hardware.

Absolutely everything worked just fine, first boot Windows pre-logon said it was configuring devices, then logon screen popped up.

All I had to do was re-activate Windows and that was it.

I knew Windows 10 system upgrades would be easy, just not this easy

As it stands, I've now had the same base install since 2009, just been doing OS upgrades each time and keeping the OS well maintained. Boot to desktop time is still ~20 secs, although this is without turbo boot enabled in the BIOS.

What's to maintain these days?

mrk · 31 Dec 2016 at 21:40

Robert said:
What's to maintain these days?

There;s still a lot of leftover crap from old ga,es/software when they're uninstalled, as well as temp files from apps that don't clean up after themselves.

The Registry is also not cleaned up after apps and games have been removed, and every time you create and delete icons on your desktop, the registry is populated with their details and not removed when those icons are removed etc.

This is my monthly schedule:

CCleaner sorts the registry cleanup out by removing, and these are the checkboxes I filter against:

Windows Backup creates a system image to external drive, and FreeFileSync maintains mirrored backups of documents, media and app data.

foster grant · 24 Jan 2017 at 10:58

OK so can I still upgrade a Windows 7 PC to Windows 10 via the Desktop please ?

thanks

mrk · 24 Jan 2017 at 11:01

Yes,

Turn on sticky keys (temporarily of course

) and go here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/accessibility/windows10upgrade

foster grant · 24 Jan 2017 at 11:02

Sticky Keys ?

mrk · 24 Jan 2017 at 11:04

Press the shift key 5 times to turn it on. It's just an accessibility feature so that the upgrade to 10 is allowed through the installer linked above.

foster grant · 24 Jan 2017 at 11:13

Is the link you gave the Windows 10 Anniversary update ?...and is it OK ?

mrk · 24 Jan 2017 at 11:14

Yes and yes. It will update to the latest build of Windows 10.

foster grant · 24 Jan 2017 at 11:15

OK thanks mrk

Sorry , one more question please, how do I turn Stcky Keys off , and also can I roll back to Windows 7 if I wish to ? lol...I have never used sticky keys .

demonix · 24 Jan 2017 at 16:07

mrk said:
Press the shift key 5 times to turn it on. It's just an accessibility feature so that the upgrade to 10 is allowed through the installer linked above.

Which isn't necessary since there aren't any checks done to see if any assisting technologies are in use on the computer as it's an honour system.