Minimal iterations of the Modern Windows operating system
Minimal iterations of the Modern Windows operating system
I ran an experiment to see if I could make Windows 10 lean and how much performance (admittedly all gaming benchmarks) I could get from it. So shameless plug: Spoiler alert though: what I did barely did anything to be counted as statistically significant in most people's eyes. This supports the idea that Windows background services don't have a significant amount of overhead at least with the hardware I have. You can try and run the same things I did, but keep in mind that unless your setup is frozen, you'll likely run into weird issues with other software. Another thing to point out is that Windows by design will use up more RAM if there's more available to it due to how page tables are set up. I don't know the magic formula off the top of my head and this is totally not what happens, but if a page table for 8GB of RAM needs 32 MB, then having 32GB of RAM will increase this to 128 MB. And note that every process has its own page table, which is what every OS does for memory protection schemes. (just randomly throwing information out there)
The performance gap is actually small on current systems. It becomes noticeable when you look at older generations, and running it in a virtual machine makes a big difference.