Why does Windows 11 get slower and worse with every update?

Question

No matter how great and powerful your hardware is, Windows 11 just keeps getting worse with every update. Now it takes minutes just to move a single file from one folder to another on the same drive! The ONLY logical explanation for this horrendously slow speed is that Microsoft is harvesting data about every file and action you take on your system. Apparently, they've chosen to follow the Google model for illegally harvesting your data without your authorization or knowledge. That's why Chrome takes so much longer to load and the only plausible explanation for what's happening with file/folder transfers in Windows 11. Apparently, they keep upping the amount of data they want to harvest so no matter how fast your CPU and memory are, your system is going to move at a snails pace. Does MS care? Of course not. Ever since Gates left, they never have and never will. It's all about the $$$ now. Technology has been forced into the back seat.

Answer 1

He is actually not the only one with that issue, often the updates makes the system gets slower, with no noticeable improvements.

The update of today, with no other change to my system, made it so that clicking on the taskbar clock takes 30-40 seconds to pop up the calendar.

Drivers issues ? Moon in Saturn ? Need to reinstall everything ? Malware ? Thermal throtting ? Plain incompetence ?

Also, he is right - the answert of that one Munkhbayar is totally useless, just a copy paste of stuff we've seen a thousands times.

Infact, on microsoft answers one rarely, if ever, find any valid solution. It's more a place we come rambling in frustration, while in truth we'd like to have a microsoft responsible next to us and beat them with a pole from when i click on clock 'till the calendar appear.

And at last, I'm all with Michal on cursing microsoft for the forced updates. May the one who took that decision burn in hell forever with cockroaches devouring his regrowing reproductive system.
If they want to force updates on us, they should first learn how to make them flawless.

Answer 2

I'm here to agree with you guys.

I turned on a really old PC with Windows 7 and oh my god!

It has a slow HDD and only 2 cores of CPU, 4GB ram and everything opens instantly. I don't have to wait for the file explorer 20 minutes to show all files in 3 times out of 10.

It feels much more responsive than my Ryzen 5 laptop with 32GB ram and NVME SSD running Windows 11.

Every new Windows and every new updates makes everything worse and worse.

The only thing that holds me back from switching to Linux is those softwares and games that doesn't work on Linux.

Also, AI is nothing more than a marketing $hit to sell Windows. I rarely use ChatGPT or other AIs, because they're not really useful in programing. Sometimes it can help me with simple things, but most of the time it takes more less effort to do it by yourself than struggling with the correct prompt and fixing the code that the AI is generated.

Don't make Windows even more slower with "AI".

I just want a clean operating system with no bloatware, no unnecessary functions, full control and that's it. I loved Windows XP. I hate Windows 10/11.

We have 3x the CPU frequency, 16x the cores, 20x the memory, 20x the storage speed, and Windows still struggling with simple tasks like opening the file explorer. If we have this much more powerful hardware then why don't we experience a much more responsive system?

Answer 3

Your reply is no different than a Microsoft form letter. I could have gotten the same thing from MS Support via a likely frustration filled phone call. Unfortunately, that's seemingly become the acceptable norm for tech support and customer service these days. Reading a pregenerated screen prompt or copying & pasting the same do absolutely nothing to address the real question or issue. The fact is that with each update, Windows 11 gets worse and slower. All your suggestions above only defend Microsoft and do not explain the reason they are intentionally sabotaging the operating system to the point it's nearly unusable. Windows 7 could easily blow the doors off both Windows 10 and 11 but didn't allow for the embedded advertising, data harvesting and the constantly 'phoning home' (Microsoft). Why? Because the user had more control over it and Microsoft rarely tried to override the end users settings. Now, every update overrides user settings somewhere - especially in power management - so that the user has to go back into device manager or wherever to set them back to the way they were. That is NOT an improvement and yet Microsoft refused to acknowledge the problems or take any responsibility, Just like your reply, they ALWAYS blame the end user in some way. It's NEVER Microsoft's fault. MS even did this with the Crowdstrike issue. If Windows 11 didn't automatically install updates, the impact wouldn't have been nearly as severe. But, MS insists that it has to be able to do that regardless of what users want. Sadly, Microsoft is not alone in this 'the customer is ALWAYS wrong' way of thinking. For example, Norton has resorted to blatant lies in pop up advertising within their products and ignores when the user chooses 'Don't show again'. The same thing can be said about Google, Android and Chrome. You tell them don't follow me. Google updates and you're being followed again until you go back and turn it off. Even then, you still get the ads that prove that you're still being followed. It's easily proven. Make sure do not follow is on, do a search for something bizarre you would never use or purchase and watch the ads you start seeing in your browser and email after that.

Put quite bluntly, American software companies are apparently more concerned with data harvesting, the often unearned C-level bonuses and shareholder profits than product quality, product reliablity and user privacy. Windows 11 is still not ready for primetime and likely never will be based on its current history of neverending SNAFU's. Then we'll all be forced into Windows 12 just like we were with Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11.

Answer 4

Apparently no one ever taught you how to be respectful of another person. You're obviously from the Trumpster mentality camp where you resort to namecalling when you don't have a clue regarding what you're talking about.

FYI, I was hacking into systems back in the 70's before you were ever even thought about. As far as I'm concerned, you are just another ignorant responder because you have no idea how coding at the lower levels - as in the 1's and 0's - actually works. I do and have for decades.

Try hitting Ctrl+U while viewing the simplest most barren web page you can find and see if you understand and can decipher what you're looking at. I can with ease. In fact, I've been doing it for decades.

A search regarding the problems with Windows 11 proves that it is a awfully slow for an allegedly up to date modern operating system. And, no matter how complaints there are, it's always the users fault. Funny how the major software companies choose to blame the user for problems in the original coding. Sometimes it's something as simple as an undefined term or expression that can cripple a system. The recent Crowdstrike blunder proves that. Had someone actually tested the code before releasing it, it probably could have been avoided. When I was in college, rigorous testing was the challenge because you had to come up with a plethora of scenarios that could occur via the end user. Things like accidental key combinations being pushed or simple user impatience where they start clicking and hitting keys out of frustration.

Google Chrome loads slow. They blame the installed extensions for the muliple executables (chrome.exe in this case) of the same process running. What do you think all those scripts are doing in the background? Why do ads suddenly popup regarding an intentionally bizarre search term when you have all the do not follows you can locate turned on? Because regardless of your personal beliefs, your data is constantly being harvested and transmitted. The software companies claim it's for diagnostic purposes. That's telling a half truth. While some of it is for diagnostic purposes, some of it is for tracking and sharing with partner companies and ad agencies for profit.

Here's a simple test: After insuring that you've turned off ALL trackers, do a search for purple leis or some other unique item. Now, watch how ads for it suddenly appear in your browsers. Notice, the plural intentionally used there. Why? Because the ads will appear in Chrome and Edge even though the original search was done in only one of them. If the trackers were actually all turned off, how come the ads for such an uncommon thing are appearing? Because your preferred settings are being overridden without your knowledge or consent. Those settings are often buried deep in the registry where most common users would never venture out of fear of doing something wrong.

To answer your 'why would they sabotage their own OS' question? Simple. To force you to update to the latest one as they have been doing since Win 8. Look at the original Windows support timeframes as compared to what they have now. MS went from a decade of support to a couple of years tops with Windows 11. Win 11 was released October 5, 2021. The end of life for that release has already passed for both that initial release and the one that followed (21H2 & 22H2). For both end of life was October 8, 2024. Why do you think that is? Here's a hint: $$$.

What's the easiest way a company can force users to upgrade their software? By intentionally making what the user has currently installed appear to have vulnerabilities that aren't going to be fixed in the current version but will be in the newest one. It's simple fear mongering and, thanks to intentionally leaving older versions vulnerable, you force the upgrades. What's better publicity than having the FBI warn users about the security issues from running an OS that is no longer supported? And it didn't cost Microsoft a thing for the FBI to do that on their behalf. That's like the icing on the cake for forcing users to upgrade.

So, it has nothing to do with tinfoil, as you chose to put it. It's about reality and understanding how computer programs are written and how all those words become nothing but 1's & 0's so the electronics can understand it and flip the right switches the right way at the right time. I understand and know how to manipulate those 1's & 0's. Do you?

One more thing, there's a reason harvested data is considered the new cash crop for many industries. How do you think they gather all that data?

Answer 5

Windows 11 all system tools search so slow. file, programs, especially system configurations so slow.