Waste of time. 10 cold boots on a SSD in 10 seconds or less, not counting inputting password. And its ready to go immediately no thrashing. And I customized zero settings beyond file extensions.
I can handle it as well, but there are more unnecessary hoops to jump through to personalize this OS, and that's the beef I got with windows 10. I've got my PC sorted out and running the way I want now. Some people got used to jumping through the extra hoops with windows 8, but that's precisely the reason I didn't upgrade to 8 over 7, or upgrade to vista over XP. I'm going to need Windows 10 at some point in the future, so I thought I may as well get used to it now.
Windows 10 cold boots for me in 22-24 seconds on a 4 year old mechanical HDD. The stock windows 10 took 40-42 secs to boot. I nearly doubled my boot time by personalizing my OS to run lean and mean. Trimmed off most all of the fat.
I'd recommend power users wait before they upgrade to 10 and see if more features are added that make it easier/quicker to personalize the OS the way they want, or more apps come available that allow you to do this.
Waste of time. 10 cold boots on a SSD in 10 seconds or less, not counting inputting password. And its ready to go immediately no thrashing. And I customized zero settings beyond file extensions.
based on what exactly??I'd recommend power users wait before they upgrade to 10
based on what exactly??
Same, haven't used an AV in years, Defender is enough and my caution on downloads and avoiding unknown websites.I had nothing on my Win7 install for years. Got tired of crappy AV causing trouble and I never needed it anyway.
Now that I'm running 10 that has defender built in (that actually does something unlike Defender in 7) I see no need to turn it off. I really don't care either way, as long as it doesn't give me any issues with anything.
Same, haven't used an AV in years, Defender is enough and my caution on downloads and avoiding unknown websites.
Ditto +1
based on what exactly??
Waste of time. 10 cold boots on a SSD in 10 seconds or less, not counting inputting password. And its ready to go immediately no thrashing. And I customized zero settings beyond file extensions.
Yeah...I'm surprised that people who consider themselves "pro" (and in some cases may have boasted about building expensive systems not long ago) still run with HDDs.
People try to squeeze that extra 200mhz out of an overclock for a negligible performance increase, but its a waste of time if I try to personalize an OS to run quicker because my setup is centered around doing one thing - playing games. OK.It's a lot less time to just put an SSD in than deal with trying to cut down the amount you need to load into memory. Even the worst SSDs out there these days run circles around spinning platters in all but cost per GB.
My SSD went bad, only got 2 1/2 years out of it. And I'm not gonna buy another one until I build a new PC sometime next year.
It wasn't a waste of time at all, my OS runs more efficient than it did before with the setup I got. I'm happy with the way Windows 10 is running now after I took a hatchet to the features/services I didn't need. Even if I ran on an SSD, I'd still do that. People overclock their hardware to get extra performance, and the way I see it is the changes I made were similar with regards to the OS. I use my OS almost exclusively for gaming, so apps/services, etc that aren't required for gaming are fat that needs to be trimmed.
I fixed your post.
The last new PC I built was in 2011, and my new job doesn't pay even half what I was making in 2011. I'm far from the only one in that position.
People try to squeeze that extra 200mhz out of an overclock for a negligible performance increase, but its a waste of time if I try to personalize an OS to run quicker because my setup is centered around doing one thing - playing games. OK.
I5 2500k is a bottleneck in some of these newer games, and freeing up a bit of resources has gotten me better performance in games. If I was running an I7 5820k with a top of the line 500GB SSD, maybe those changes wouldn't be that necessary. There are a few spots in Witcher 3 and DAI that bottleneck my CPU so hard, the FPS will tank into the 40-45 range with 95-100% usage on 4 cores.
Better performance? If your CPU is hitting 100% usage its time for an upgrade, irrelevant services won't change anything.
Granted I haven't played those particular games, but I have had no problems with my 2600k keeping up with stuff. I think he may have something else going on. Granted my 2600k is overclocked to 4.5GHz but I would assume if he has a 2500k that it has some sort of overclock on it (otherwise why bother with a K CPU?)
Better performance? If your CPU is hitting 100% usage its time for an upgrade, irrelevant services won't change anything.
Starting to wonder if I should go back to 8.1
My Kaspersky Internet Security every once in a while wont start when I turn on the pc. I cant seem to finish a full scan(crashes). I can do quick scans only.
From time to time if I delete something the icon is still there. I have to hit refresh for it to disappear. I have tried to delete files several times not realizing they were already deleted.
When checking my movies to see if I converted subtitles correctly it slow going to a certain time mark in the movie using Dvdfab media player. Long pauses which I didn't have in 8.1. Doesn't happen every time but often enough.
All updates have been applied.
Does Windows 10 have a setting to wake itself up for applying updates?
The reason I ask is because yesterday I put my Win 10 laptop to sleep on my desk. I was doing some paperwork just now and heard the whirring of the fan coming from the laptop. I opened up the lid and saw that Windows was applying updates. I let that finish, and then closed the lid, and it is asleep and silent again.