Experience improved performance—time runs more than twice as fast after a fresh install on Windows 11.
Experience improved performance—time runs more than twice as fast after a fresh install on Windows 11.
I use Windows 11 on an Intel i9 9900K with all cores, 5GHz+ speed, 3200Mhz DDR4 RAM, and a M.2 SSD system. I keep my OS updated. A while back I joined Windows Insider, which was exciting but tiring due to frequent updates. Eventually I unsubscribed and enabled the off-ramp feature. This process didn’t finish smoothly—it stalled more than once. Even though updates continued, they weren’t applying the latest major versions anymore. After some time, I decided to perform a clean installation. The transition from login to fully ready state now takes over twice as long as before. I installed the same programs and games, updated drivers, and everything seemed normal. Still, startup times are noticeably slower, and some applications load more slowly. I double-checked my BIOS settings and confirmed everything was set to 5.0GHz all cores, but nothing changed. What changed was performance—pages felt heavier and web browsing lagged. I also tried reinstalling WinAero Tweak to fix Cortana and privacy issues, but it didn’t help much. Overall, the upgrade improved stability but at the cost of speed and responsiveness.
We're discussing times before and after in relation to this. I don't have a direct solution, but I recommend using backups. I maintain multiple backups and periodically create fresh ones; when problems arise, I can revert to a stable state. It's usually around 1809, since there isn't a more reliable or stable version of Windows yet.
Before I had a mostly usable pc in 30 or so seconds, and fully usable one in about 60 seconds... Now it takes about 60 to 90 seconds or so (rough estimation) to get a somewhat usable pc. Before I could run Firefox seconds after loggin in and get right to youtube... Now if I do that it bogs down the loading entirely, like... I have to wait a while before I can even run anything. And yes it's best to let it load but I'm just saying... I can't even run anything really until it's done now whereas before I could if I needed to. It's like suddenly I'm not running the system I was... even though the components are the same, and it's not that different other than a couple major updates.
Fast boot is enabled in the BIOS under "settings > power and sleep > additional power settings > choose what power buttons do." If it's off, the system shuts down normally; if on, you experience a fake shutdown similar to Hypermate or Sleep. I prefer a slower boot so all devices shut down properly and safely.
UwU Yeah, it's tricky because slower boot times mean less time waiting. You want something that starts up quickly!
LOL, yeah... in the end, fast boot seems to be off, and that’s been true since I found out earlier this year or late last year. Back then, the login picture and stuff would appear almost instantly after pressing enter or moving the mouse up, but now it takes a bit longer... hmmmm.
Well, to update you guys on somethings: I found the Intel MEupdateTool's more up to date version... and that has speed things up a few seconds overall and made the system more snappy. I'm wondering now if there's something else I may have missed in driver/firmware updates that might help in speeding up the initial login time and such as well or if there are some windows settings that I may have forgotten about that might speed things along as well... hmmm (other than fast boot) Edit: Double-take WTF moment... Fast Boot was enabled in BIOS... o.0 *blinks a few times* Yea... Boot time was sped up just a bit with this as well, as well as log-in to 100% ready-to-use time being speed up by a couple seconds I think, I need to break out my timer next time but in all honesty I'm definitely on the right track. 2nd Edit: Timed it. From hitting the enter key to bring up the password entry for windows to fully usable (C drive is down to ~0% Active use): 1:12:41 From typing in password it's 58.64 seconds now. Somewhere I need to find that additional approximately 28 seconds roughly speaking... hmmm
Are you sure these devices are essential right now—high priority, Huion tablet, possibly high volume, and all starting up at once?
Icu is mainly for my PSU, which is a Corsair with the ILINK or whatever it was called, but also for some of my RGB, and jusched is the Java updater. Huion is for my Pen Display. Right now I know that everything was running smoothly at startup, loading quickly with almost no delay when accessing the login screen. I’m curious if a Windows update affected performance, if there’s a driver I overlooked, or if I missed any settings.