Windows 10: Giving up on WIN10 Home

Last fall I started college in CS and am doing well with the exception of struggling with my WIN10 laptop.

I finally uninstalled AVS as I have it on my win 7 machine and never had a problem. Come to find out on a latest update (in WIN10 Home you are forced to updates because there is no gpedit.msc to turn it off) AVS and Win Defender started to compete and CPU was at 90% with doing anything (I thought WIN defender was suppose to go to sleep if another VP program is installed) In the process of CPU pegged and getting no user response for 5+ minutes I did a hard reset. Upon reset I found out I corrupts something on the hard reset and had to do a system restore which went ok.

I deinstalled AVS and now my CPU is down to 10-20% and DISK is at 5-10% even after 2 hours after reboot. Gone are the days that your CPU and DISK go idle after some time.

Tried to deinstall Cortana which was using CPU time. Tried the edit register way, reboot and still Cortana is eating CPU time. Boy that utility is a real pain. Always bugging me to give me advice when I dont need it.

Deleted a couple of other background apps the HP installs which were useless apps.

Still at CPU 10% and DISK never goes idle.

Antimalware Service Executable kicks in and seems to be under control.

I had to install telnet, Putty and FileZilla as I need them for a class this fall. I cannot get Putty/SSH to work on this WIN10 machine. Works great on my win7 machine which is connected to the same router. Just another thing to deal with. Hey I'm a CS student so suck it up right? My message to you is tell the people at BestBuy that if you are a student, DONT buy a machine with WIN10 HOME with 4GB mem and all the other manufacturer junk utilities installed.

Most of all hitting the windows ICON key and doing any menu walking is very sluggish.

Finally I am just feed up with university IT telling me I bought a wimpy machine go buy something better.

So I dual booted Ubuntu 18.04 on this machine and now have a machine that works!
* No sluggish menus
* Boot quickly and is usable in < 1min (verse 5-10 min for WIN10)
* Putty/SSH work along with FileZilla,
* System goes idle seconds after last user task is complete
* AVS installed and work fine after initials scan (No noticeable performance issues)

I am ready to go for the fall. I now just wish I reformatted my disk first so I dont have all that waste WIN10 partition.

Cheers.

Chuck

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