Windows 10: Lets hear how your PC's performing with Win 10 vs Win 7 .

My Laptop is flying with Wds 10... after disable/uninstall whole lot of apps/cortana/onedrive/Xbox/Edge/...
And with Star8/bypass lock screen ... it boots to desktop in few seconds .
Then again , It's not fair to compare normal HDD to SSD ..
Happy camper here ... *Wink

 

Did you use "brinks" tutorial to remove that stuff , i don't want any of that stuff either.

 

Yes , or you can go to Tutorial , But for the apps, I had to go to start and uninstall them 1 by 1 ..Some can't uninstall but you can disable them.
Only Edge , just leave it alone , never use it .

 

OK, thanks.

 

Noticeable performance drop on all my systems, i have done fresh installs on 2 systems of win 7, 8.1 and 10 to compare , windows 8.1 is way faster on both systems whilst on windows 7 is faster than 10 on one of them, so performance wise Windows 10 is a bit of a miss on current builds.

 

Eventually did not stick it out, had too many issues on my gaming desktop and my laptop with updates and not being able to find the mouse on wakeup (supposedly a known issue). One update tossed my gaming desktop into a perpetual boot loop and I had to do a complete reset, you want to talk being pissed off!!!! Also decided I don't want all the bloatware residing on my computer, I consider Cortana and Edge to be bloatware, also I want full control over my updates so I'm back with Win 7 for now. If Microsucks hasn't decided to start catering to all their customers by the time Win 7 is no longer supported I'll migrate completely over to Linux.
Currently the wife's laptop and the Lenovo Yoga are running 10, had to fix a few issues with 10 on her laptop, rarely use the Lenovo.

 

Win10 runs the same as Win7 did for me performance-wise, only heck of a lot buggier and the 'Store' broke early on, few months ago, as well as the apps. that rely on it . . . don't really miss that bloatware though. No update ever fixes it, so letting that go.
Never had any problems with Win7. Lots of start-up config. problems with Win10, that only the Macrium Reflect Rescue Media disk can cure. Win10 Repair Disk does nothing to fix start-up problems.
-this is a sample of my Windows 10 reliability:

 

I run some benchmarks on same system in dual boot with W7 Sp1 and same drivers. Had 1 - 10% better marks in W10. Graphics well within 1 - 2% but that's pending Dx12 titles which should give it a good boost.
Best fared memory with up to 10% boost and that was before memory handling changes. Since than I changed to 1866MHz so now I can't compare with old results in W7.
SSD is now running better but I attribute that to better AHCI drivers for my MB.
As far as processor is concerned, it seems that load per core is reduced in W10, load is spread over multiple cores better although benchmark score stayed same. In heavy multitasking there's no more of some cores hitting 100% while other sit idle, not even with single threaded applications.

 

Done with Windows 10 after this last Fall Creator's Edition update. My gaming desktop is now back to running Win 7 and my laptop is running Linux Mint 18.
Why you might ask, two partially interrelated issues for me. First is mandatory updates, my computers do not belong to Microsoft, second is in the latest update. Up until now I've been able to completely block Cortana from running on my system, the new update took that ability away, oh yeah I can choose not to use it but it still runs in the background sending anonymous telemetry to Microsoft and who knows what else they'll disable or activate on my computer to boost their profit margin in the future. I have until 2020 to decide what to do about my gaming computer, hopefully with the number of games written for Linux growing every day I won't have to worry about it.
Too bad actually, I liked Windows.

 

Did you try clean format install? If not I would give that a go before ungrading.

On a side note I am running Mint 18.2 on another machine and I rather like it.

 

You missed my point, forced updates and Cortana, don't want either. If I don't want an update I should be able to hide it thereby not let it install on MY computer. Heck I had uninstalled all of Microsoft's bloatware including all the ones that supposedly couldn't be uninstalled, blocked all of their telemetry, installed Classic Shell and the old Windows 7 games (Solitaire, etc). Now that Microsoft is undoing my preferred configuration I'm done with them other than Win 7 for the time being (ability to block all telemetry and get Windows 10 updates hidden).

 

W10 appears somewhat faster than my W7 machine, but I attribute that to a difference in hardware. I am forcing myself to using W10 on a day to day basis, but in the end I often revert to the W7 machine. It just feels better . The start menu screen on W10 I just HATE, HATe, HAte, Hate, looks unprofessional sort of an arcade screen on a kids gaming screen. The old control panel was somewhat easier to use, the new one takes way more effort for me at least. You would think that by this time, MS would have the conversion completed to the new style, its sort of half and half at present. Same for EDGE, it is just klunky, I only use it for browsing, use FF for all other tasks. It just needs a lot more work IMHO. But I keep reminding myself to "go with the flow".

 

Yesterday I switched back from Win10 to Win7, clean install. Win7 is loading faster and running faster but that's to be expected with a clean install, over time they slow down unless one performs "maintenance" such as cleaning out the cache, etc.

 

The problem, at least for me is Microsoft has taken a completely new direction with Windows 10, an operating system as a service and not just an operating system controlled by the user. Microsoft is famous for relying on number of users data as opposed to actual real user feedback (they have no such feedback system set up) to determine how "popular" their operating systems are. The problem with that approach to determining "popularity" is the typical clueless user who doesn't know there are alternatives and will live/deal with anything Microsoft force feeds them even though they may not like it.

 

Hey Everyone!

Haven't been active for some time but now, I feel I just have to chime in and vent my Frustrations with W10 Creators Update.

First, a bit of history regarding the topic.

I have two notebooks that I play with:

One is a workstation from Eurocom {Scorpius 2012}
Windows 7 SP1 and updated.
Two AMD GPUs {8970, 4 Gigs of memory each}
16 Gigs of RAM {1600 MHz}
Intel SSD 480 Gigs {half full}
Intel i7 core 2.8 Gig {PC i7 , not notebook i7}

Second is a brand new MSI GT73VR 7RE Titan. with W10
{Look up specs here: GT73VR 7RE Titan | Laptops - The best gaming laptop provider | MSI Global

The second notebook has a NvMe SSD M.2 from Samsung.

Now, from boot times on the Scorpius {14 to 16 seconds} to the new AND faster SSD on W10,
there is a difference of 16 to 20 seconds Slower!!. I just couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this.

Yes, I went through the OS and disabled as much as possible without affecting it's good functionality.
I have also deleted all the crap that came with the MSI notebook {which wasn't much really} and
ran through Black Viper's recommended process changes.

Still, this thing just won't boot faster. Boot aside, I also have to mention how many processes are running
on W10 compared to W7. Almost double on W10 and for what??

I bought this new notebook specifically for gaming. The nVidia 1070 makes it ideal for coming
games.

I am presently playing the CoD 4 Remastered and a few more that Shouldn't tax this system anymore
than any other similar games but, I get hesitations of a few miliseconds that does affect game play and
it is Very frustrating.
I have played these same games on my other notebook and No hesitations at all.

I have to tell you, this is Not what I was expecting from MS. This is so bad that I will in the very near
future revert back to W7 on this new notebook as well. If this is what MS thinks is going forward then.
I will stay in the past or try out Linux which I don't like to think about but, if this is the way MS keeps
going then, I will most definitely go in that direction.

This OS is very bad for gamers and i suspect, not that good for the regular user either.

Rant Over {for now}.


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