Windows multitasking needs a serious overhaul

It may have always been this way, but I really don’t recall previous versions of Windows becoming completely unusable during update downloads, virus definition updates or whatever background process decides to churn the hard drive at 99% for how ever much time it thinks it should have....

I understand that SSD’s generally avoid this issue because they’re able to access the data they need at a faster rate, but it’s inexcusable that performance using a traditional HDD has gotten this bad. No reason a modern PC with a fresh, unbloated installation of Windows churns the disk for 3-5min on a cold boot. Vista wasn’t this bad if your PC had at least 4GB of RAM.

Until SSDs price per GB reaches sanity and can fully displace a traditional HDD, I don’t think it’s wise to not optimize for them.

My HDD is fine and I’ve witnessed this behavior on more than one PC. Laptops are even worse.

Telemetry is always the culprit in this cases, try disabling the Customer Experiences and Telemetry service, that should get your disk back to normal.

FerchogtX said:

Telemetry is always the culprit in this cases, try disabling the Customer Experiences and Telemetry service, that should get your disk back to normal.

I’ll give that a try when back at my pc but that’s not going to solve the underlying problem: The OS needs to be tweaked to detect indications of it being used and therefore not hog 100% of the I/O.