why is W10 so slow ?

hepme · 22 Jul 2020

Just upgraded to 10 from 7 and it went pretty well except for one thing. Everything from the browser (especially youtue vids which take long to start playing) use to windows itself seems slow and buggy like what you get when you have too little memory. And i DO have a fairly low amount (8GB) but not for things like browsing and windows. For gaming, sure thats low, but even thats less laggy/slow than windows and browsing. I have turned a lot of things off but to no avail.
Also, i am the only person on this PC and therefore considered admin and the PC does say i am. Yet it doesn't let me turn some things off in services. Why is that and is there a way to change that? I never had that issue with 7. Turning certain things off may well help me figure this out but when i can't it's just that much harder to fix this thru process of elimination. Thanks for any help u can give.

Matthew Wai · 22 Jul 2020

hepme said:

And i DO have a fairly low amount (8GB) but not for things like browsing and windows.

I have 6 GB only. Both Windows and my browser work fine. Try clean installing Windows 10.

hepme · 22 Jul 2020

Matthew Wai said:

I have 6 GB only. Both Windows and my browser work fine. Try clean installing Windows 10.

That would be like asking to level a major US city and rebuild it from scratch. Not gonna happen even if i have to live with the issue.

ignatzatsonic · 22 Jul 2020

Youtube made a major change perhaps 2 or 3 months ago that causes a video page to load more slowly than previously. I read the details, but don't recall them.

As far as I know, the change affects everyone equally, regardless of OS.

In my case, the time for the page to load went from perhaps 2 seconds to perhaps 6. A video still begins playing as quickly as ever once you poke the play arrow, but the first access to that web page takes longer.

hepme · 22 Jul 2020

ignatzatsonic said:

Youtube made a major change perhaps 2 or 3 months ago that causes a video page to load more slowly than previously. I read the details, but don't recall them.

As far as I know, the change affects everyone equally, regardless of OS.

In my case, the time for the page to load went from perhaps 2 seconds to perhaps 6. A video still begins playing as quickly as ever once you poke the play arrow, but the first access to that web page takes longer.

Not the case for me. I never had and issue with 7 even up till i upgraded to 10 just a few days ago. Then on 10 it now takes about 15- 20 seconds for a youtube video to load.

Bree · 22 Jul 2020

hepme said:

Everything from the browser (especially youtue vids which take long to start playing) use to windows itself seems slow and buggy like what you get when you have too little memory. And i DO have a fairly low amount (8GB) but not for things like browsing and windows....

Welcome to Ten Forums hepme.

I have some machines with just 4GB that have no trouble playing Youtube videos.

One question is which Browser are you using? Both the Legacy Edge and IE seem a little slower to start playing a Youtube video than Firefox that I use as my default browser, but only by a second or so. You could try another browser or upgrading to the new Chromium Edge.

More generally, slow/jerky video suggests you need to check you have the latest video drivers installed, especially if you use Nvidia.

ignatzatsonic · 22 Jul 2020

Hepme:

How long ago did you upgrade to 10?

What does Task Manager say about disk activity and RAM usage?

Do you have 50 processes running or 150?

hepme · 22 Jul 2020

I have minimal processes running, thats something i am anal about. Anyways, Youtube works fine now after I updated firefox much as i hate to do that. (because it usually seems to wipe out some things i need) Windows seems a bit better after finding a youtube video about settings to turn off and that apparently helped. Not sure how much just yet but so far nothing is as slow as it was. So i think i'm good now but we shall see and if not, as arnold would say, i'll be back...