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

For an OS with so much service hosts I believe mine has over 50 instances of svchost.exe, it's very stable and has never given me memory leaks even after 23 days and 18 hours of uptime and counting. I'll update my Windows updates on the 15th of August though since I do my updates on a monthly basis.

 

Most of the time I have at least two OS's an same computer and can compare their performance objectively. I compared two systems from W98 to XP, XP to W7, W7 to W(/8.1 and now have W7 and W10. Each one on it's own SSD.
At the beginning of each new version, it was slower than previous one but as proper drivers and/or BIOS versions were developed newer OS became faster and better. Right now, W7 takes almost twice as long to BOOT but running same benchmark shows very slight advantage to W10. W7 is in very pure state with only some games installed and no unnecessary startups while W10 has bunch of them. Neither are slow to start with W10 taking about 17 seconds and W7 some 30 seconds. Some of that difference can be attributed to dual BOOT as the disk with W10 is primary and UEFI is on it and also has BOOT menu on it. So difference is actually even less. What W10 excels in is multicore and memory handling but that's not very visible in benchmark tests although those are most visible differences. Real difference shows at running large and complicated programs where free memory and more cores are used so for instance Handbrake works and finishes faster on W10 by a good margin. Another thing is that W10 requires less maintenance so sometime is saved at that too.
If I found that W7 was in any way better at performance, roles would be reversed and W7 would be my primary OS.

 

Thanks for the report Mike. I tend to agree with you. There are lots of people who insist 10 is slower than 7 but I believe they did an in-place upgrade which is prone to so many issues. You only have to look at posts on this forum. I think after an upgrade from 7, people should do a clean format.

 

Yes but for other reasons too. Older OS gets "dirtied" after a time and also tends to keep some old drivers when just upgraded.

 

I have moved from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on a brand new pc What a relief,Windows 10 is a very good guidance system