Windows 10: Laptop Extremely Slow after a Windows 10 update

Happened on March 14, 2019


Was going to shut down my laptop and one of the buttons was "update and shutdown." I haven't experienced problems in the past updates of win 10 so I let it update.

The next day, it took 10 minutes for my pc to start up, refreshing took a whole second, and doing anything (like opening apps) was extremely slow and ended up "not responding." I restarted my laptop a few times when the pc froze, and the same things above kept on happening. Because of this I haven't been able to use my laptop for an entire day.

What was the recent update about? What can I do to resolve this? Thanks.


Note: The update was uninterrupted.

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I bought a new laptop with Windows 10 recently.

Only after a few days, the jump lists started to get extremely slow.

But they behave that way just for a while, then they work as they should again.

When slow, it takes several minutes for the jump list to appear. It is extremely annoying. Especially e.g. when I have opened a remote desktop and want to open another one via the jumplist.

I had exactly the same problem with my old Windows 7 PC and assumed that I would get rid of that problem,
changing both PC and OS, but no.

I do not want the standard answers to this problem:

- Disable Aero

- Clear the (Explorer) Cache for Jump lists

- etc.

It is definitely something else. I mean, how would the jump list cache get full after only a week? And why does the jump list get slow only sometimes and then suddenly works just fine again?

So please, give me an answer that takes this into consideration.