Okay who elses Windows 10 pc is slow as crap lately?

So my Windows is running fine, but it looks like I'm running way behind everyone here in terms of which version I'm on...

My updates says its ready to download 1903, and that I will be notified when the 2004 version from May 2020. Very odd?

EDIT: maybe its been blocked from updating to an unstable version, like in this comment here

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what you described seems to me to a cooling or a energy management problem. would check the power supply

No issue here, using W10 PRO version 1903, OS Build 18362.900

My only issue in the last 2-3 weeks is slow boot time. Apparently during bios startup and before disk access.
No idea why. Twice it was so slow that I interprerpreted it was frozen.
No idea if Win10 related.

No? Also, Win10 is the best OS ever made.

Recently I had a bug on 2004 final build, I couldn't right click on icons on taskbar, left click on clock/notifications. Sometimes I click multiple times on icons and they didn't started right away.The only fix was to run this command in powershell Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"}
It was so annoying, I almost wanted to reinstall Windows.

After this mess, I discovered Tclock, I made the clock much bigger and added seconds with a font called microsoft yahei and font size 14, it's so much better than default clock https://github.com/White-Tiger/T-Clock

Another bug which still happen since 3 years ago, I delete 100 folders and these folders have 30 files each. And it stays at 99% for MINUTES doing nothing, even if it shows it deleted everything (0 bits remaining). Fix is a .bat file on desktop where I wrote taskkill /IM explorer.exe /F && explorer
It's so satisfying to kill explorer and then restart it. I don't like when a software does something different than I want it to and this killing/restart button it's so so so addictive when I punish explorer.exe for not doing it's job.

Ok guys, former TI worker here, support specialist. Now thats not for showing off or brag, my intention is to show that I have experience with this.
Now i'll share my experience since I used to manage a ton of worker laptops with good specs but that for some reason end up seemingly overworked and slow for no aparent reason.
This solution might not work for everyone, but at least for a good bunch of people it should work. Its quite simple.
All you need to do is turn off background apps on windows. Yes, thats it there is a ton of background apps working on the background on everyone's pcs that have this turned on.
How to turn them off:

1- Go to the windows icon, open the menu then select settings, (The cog icon)
2- Next go to privacy
3- Scroll down on the left menu until you see background apps option and click on it
4- Right after you access the menu the first option will be "Let apps run in the background" turn that thing off, you'll notice a improvement in your system, for gits and giggles you can scroll all the way down to see what was actually running.

This is specially useful if you use the windows store a lot, if you still do not see any improvements try defraggig your HDD (Don't do this if you have SSD, but SSD will be much faster if you actually have them) If you still experience slowdowns, run malware scanners like Malwarebytes, malwarebytes usually catches a ton of crap that normal antivirus cant detect, at least on my experience. Everyone have their own like regarding malware scanners so use the one you trust the most.
Hope this helped somebody.

I searched this thread for virtual memory and couldn't find anything, so I'll suggest increasing your windows virtual memory in case it isn't configured properly. Helped me speed up my shitty laptop that was absolutely unbearable to use.

https://www.geeksinphoenix.com/blog/post/2016/05/10/how-to-manage-windows-10-virtual-memory.aspx

Windows has always been like this, it starts and then it starts to have problems, but people don't notice much, since updates are usually proposed as "solutions to problems", people don't pay attention to them.

you need to understand what Windows is; Windows is not just an operating system ... I know something about it, because some time ago I "created" my personal operating system (indeed I created 2 of them, starting as a base on a Debian Linux netbook (Steam base OS), and on an old Arch Linux computer ... now on the old computer I have formatted it and I don't use it, because it is very old for everything, but on the netbook I can tell you that minimal Debian with i3 windows manager (google search if dont know ) does not have any kind of slowdown, and is a very old netbook, with factory Windows 7 starter.

specifically, this version of Windows 7 (starter) is ultra minimal, with very few features, yet it made the absurd netbook run slowly.

Windows is an operating system + an infinite series of code and additions (most of the time useless to the user); is programmed like this, because Microsoft has always wanted to monopolize any type of market, and obviously it has had more ease in creating a system that can be used in any sector (with slight changes between the various versions) instead of a specific operating system for each sector (and type of device). and when creating an update, he must take into consideration all those parts that are not useful to most home users. obviously it's more complicated than that ...

then someone might ask me: why do you use Windows 10 and not Linux, if you say / write which is better? because I like video games, and in Linux the support for games is still lower, 90% of games will have a (safe) frame-rate drop on Linux, 50% of games will not run on linux (now with libraries Proton this percentage has decreased).

however, if I had a 5000 € PC I would most likely forget Windows completely. because what is absurd is this, that (in my opinion) the best of Linux you can have in two economic bands of PC, those that are worth very little (because Windows makes them unusable), and those that are worth very much (because the performance of the PC make up for some deficiencies in the operating system).

and anyway, if you are not worried about playing any available title, Linux is fine for everything, always and anyway, and create your own operating system (even if it is not really creating it), choosing the programs one by one, organizing what possibilities and parts to add and which not, it is much more powerful and satisfying than Windows bloatware (which does not even allow you to remove the taskbar to replace it with any other).

I changed to windows 8.1 and now all my games run so much faster, but i mean A LOT, just to mention one, League used to run at 30 fps with all in medium(w10), and now it runs at 60 fps with all in high, so idk what to think..

Yeah, my Win10 PC periodically runs very slowly and it has something to do with Windows Update. It's so dramatic that I notice it and so predictable that when it starts running slowly I know to check Windows Update, and I will usually notice that an update is ready for installation or download. I don't know if the issue is with drive use, allocating space, creating restore points and generally organising things in the background or what, but my PC's poor performance is often accompanied by heavy drive use (I don't have an SSD). I am on v1909 and the most recent slowdown was not for the v2004 feature update (which my device is apparently not ready for) but the latest "Cumulative Update" (KB4565483). It also installed a cumulative update for .NET at the same time (KB4565633), but I suspect the Windows cumulative update, as these have been problematic for me in the past. Depending on your system, the Disk % usage displayed on the Processes tab of Task Manager may not be showing what you think it is. This is the combined usage of all installed drives: I have four drives, and I know to suspect full utilization of C: when this shows 25%, which can be seen by switching to the Performance tab. Disk space can also become an issue, which causes problems (defragmentation needs about 15% free drive space to run effectively), and I think Storage Sense wasn't configured to clean up temporary files by default. I also have a vague memory that default File History Back-up options never delete the file history (this will be on another drive but can still cause system issues) and I changed that to keep backups until drive space is needed. I'm not sure how effectively it manages this space but if it's an issue, you can also free up space on Disk Clean-up (bring up drive Properties in Explorer) by removing all but most recent restore point using "Clean up system files", then selecting the More Options tab that becomes available, and finally "Clean up" in the System Restore and Shadow Copies section. I realise that much of this information may be irrelevant, but I thought I'd include it just in case it was useful, so I hope it didn't bother you.

Install LTSC.

It's funny to read about Windows being bad and slow and then mentioning Avast...
There are those that think Avast is causing a lot of slowdown issues too, there are even those that think Avast is made by the devil to create hell on earth... :P
I'm forced to use a PC with Avast and it comes up every 5 minutes with suggestions to improve my experience....usually at a cost. People can see my IP, my passwords are vulnerable, my webcam could be hijacked (even though I don't have one...), my browser history is for sale on the street corner, Hackers are standing behind me right now, there is a virus in my Mountain Dew...