Windows 10: Windows Threshold wave 2 will focus primarily on optimization

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Downgrade from windows 10 and upgrade from windows 8.1

ATM only Insiders (build 10565 and up) can do this. Threshold 2 (wave 2) should give that ability to regular users in a couple of weeks

 

Windows Insider Builds problem

@EVERYONE

Threshold 2 (wave 2) should be released in 2-3 weeks. It should have the ability to simply use the underlying OS' Key avoiding the necessity of re-installing the legacy OS.

If you can wait that long it may be easier

 

Hi there

Nice to think that - but my machine runs fast enough already -- I'm not sure whether any further optimisation of the OS (build 10240) would be noticeable at all. -- at least on my computers.

How would Ms for example Optimise the OS so a Video conversion at the highest resolution would run much faster than currently --things like Handbrake ripping a Blu Ray DVD to an Mp4 / Mkv file depend far more on the Hardware than the actual efficiency of the OS.

These days probably the BEST thing you can do (always assuming there's sufficient RAM in the machine --which there is of course nowadays with modern computers) is to use SSD's where possible for the OS and temporary storage for things like photo shop / video editing and for the rest get the FASTEST HDD's you can afford.

Applications can also be better written -- that's usually 100% outside the control of the OS.

I'll bet even with the FASTEST OS in the world with the fastest HDD's a really inefficient application will still kill a system.

For instance loads of older applications still perform entire screen / video re-writes - when a little bit of extra care in the coding could create a better app that only needed to refresh those parts of the screen that had actually CHANGED.

Cheers
jimbo

 

I think the optimizations might be more for lower end hardware and eliminating random bugs. One UI bug oversight I found last night while File Explorer was trying to load and I was trying to jump to my D:\ drive from the breadcrumb bar, the old Aero loading circle showed its ugly shiny face.

This is Windows. There is ALWAYS something to improve. *Nerd

 

A program (including an OS) is NEVER done! *Wink

Rich