Win10 -2004, Slow - is it fixed?

MikeyChris said:

Hi All,
I updated to Win 10, 204 release a couple months ago and my machine was slow and/or unresponsive, so I rolled back to 1909. I had read that I was not the only person having these issues. I was wondering if it was safe to try it again? The first time was quite scary because it took quite a long time for the machine to even allow me to roll back (like 1/2 hour). Thanx.

I'm on the latest version of 2004, and it seems fine to me, and I am a Windows speed freak.

Was there a particular task in Windows (2004), that was giving you trouble?

Some people find that upgrading leads to driver changes which mean their disk transfer rate is limited. Just one possibility.

Also upgrading will add some 25-30Gb to your C: drive- if that ends up nearly full, that could slow things. (Windows.old)

dalchina said:

Some people find that upgrading leads to driver changes which mean their disk transfer rate is limited. Just one possibility.

Good point.
I used WinAero Tweaker to block all driver updates, maybe that's why I'm not seeing slow downs.

https://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.1836









Microsoft has continually pushed driver updates on folks. A lot of times, this does cause issues.
Their drivers aren't necessarily bad, but sometimes, driver corruption occurs when drivers are installed over existing drivers.

I've done a couple of Desktops and couple of Notebooks, not seeing any slowdowns.

MikeyChris said:

Not just one program - anything I tried to do - open Explorer, for example. The entire machine basically was so slow it was unusable. Others have reported the same issue. I don't know if it is a specific combination of software, hardware, or both that caused the issue. I should have been more specific in my post - I am looking to hear from someone that experienced the issues and then later upgraded to 2004 and everything works. Thanx for your reply.

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I have plenty of drive space. My O/S drive is a 500GB SSD and has 363GB free. Thanx for the reply.

No... he means driverS not drives. Like motherboard drivers or video card drivers.
Windows Updates ALSO install driverS sometimes.

Some drivers, don't like to have a newer version just installed over top of the older version, and get corrupted.
This can easily cause slow downs.


The OTHER thing he mentioned was the free space on your SSD. Windows and Windows Upgrades, leave a lot of junk on your C:\ drive (SSD)... IF this is causing you to run out of space on your SSD, that can ALSO cause things to slow down.



Instead of Updating to 2004, you can do an Upgrade to 2004. This will install Windows 2004 and save your programs and settings.

dalchina said:

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

Short version: (which I have posted numerous times):
Download iso file (or use one you have for current build)
rt click iso file, click Mount
Open new drive letter in file explorer
double click setup.exe

Use the Media Creation Tool to create a Windows 10 (2004) ISO and save that ISO to your desktop.
Then... right click the ISO and choose: Mount
Then... open file explorer and find the new driver letter (usually looks like a new DVD) that the Mount command created.

Double click that new drive letter, then double click setup.exe. That will start the In-Place Upgrade. It will ask if you want to save all your programs and data, etc., choose that option.




WARNING: Unlike an Update, you won't be able to "rollback" and Upgrade. On the plus side, it should solve the "slow" problems as well.

Upgraded my work machine to 2004 and it was slower including slow boot. I noticed a few missing system tray icons so reset notification area icons, thumbnail and icon cache, rebooted and that fixed it.

Of course your problem may be something different.