Windows 11 slow

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abssorb

Member
Hi,

Bought two lafite laptops reecntly, same spec (as below), without OS installed. They've been built with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11 on dual boot.

They are like lightning on Ubuntu, but windows 11 is painfully slow. It's my first experience of 11, but we have plenty of other machines dual-booting windows 10. I appreciate that 11 will introduce some speed overhead, but this is out of the park. It can take 30 seconds to launch a browser.

CPU, Ram % are all very low, so nothing is hogging, but it's just dog slow.

I just wondered what other people's experience is?


Chassis & Display
Lafité Pro Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD 60Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-1165G7 (2.8GHz, 4.7GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 3200MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
Integrated Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 6900MB/R, 5000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
 
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abssorb said:
Hi,

Bought two lafite laptops reecntly, same spec (as below), without OS installed. They've been built with Ubuntu 22.04 and Windows 11 on dual boot.

They are like lightning on Ubuntu, but windows 11 is painfully slow. It's my first experience of 11, but we have plenty of other machines dual-booting windows 10. I appreciate that 11 will introduce some speed overhead, but this is out of the park. It can take 30 seconds to launch a browser.

CPU, Ram % are all very low, so nothing is hogging, but it's just dog slow.

I just wondered what other people's experience is?


Chassis & Display
Lafité Pro Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD 60Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-1165G7 (2.8GHz, 4.7GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair 3200MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
Integrated Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 6900MB/R, 5000MB/W)
1st M.2 SSD Drive
1TB INTEL® 670p M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 3500MB/sR | 2500MB/sW)
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Windows 11 is faster than windows 10, not slower. There's something wrong with your windows config somewhere I'm guessing.

How did you source drivers?

What AV are you using?
 
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DarkPaladin

Enthusiast
How did you install windows 11? Upgrade from Windows 10's update section or fresh install? I usually find the latter is the best option for fixing issues with the OS.
 
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abssorb

Member
Hi, Sorry for the delay in replying. So I downloaded drivers from the "orders" section of my pcspecialist account and installed them, and there is a significant speed increase.

It strikes me that the chipset manufacturers need to provide Microsoft with these drivers so that they're curated and installed by windows update. I was pleased when MS adopted this model (because it's like linux) and it was working with windows 10.

It seems a shame that we have to go back to the old windows 7 way of downloading drivers from non-OS web sites.
 
SimonPeters116

SimonPeters116

Enthusiast
abssorb said:
Hi, Sorry for the delay in replying. So I downloaded drivers from the "orders" section of my pcspecialist account and installed them, and there is a significant speed increase.

It strikes me that the chipset manufacturers need to provide Microsoft with these drivers so that they're curated and installed by windows update. I was pleased when MS adopted this model (because it's like linux) and it was working with windows 10.

It seems a shame that we have to go back to the old windows 7 way of downloading drivers from non-OS web sites.
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😂 Windows 7, old?
Sorry, I am old :)

It used to be the preferred option, from Windows 3.1 up to Windows 10, to download your drivers from the original equipment manufacturer.
Microsoft did have drivers available, they always have. But they were generic drivers, not specific for your piece of equipment. So for example, a Logitech keyboard would type quite happily, using the MS keyboard drivers. But the programmable function keys would only be programmable if you used Logitech drivers. It would be the same type of thing, whatever piece of equipment it was.
My old 3 in 1 printer is still the same on Windows 10. With the W10 MS drivers, it will print, scan etc perfectly fine. But getting it to check ink levels, clean printer nozzles etc is not as easy as it was with the old drivers and care program, from the OEM. I just took it that when I installed Windows 10, my old printer was so old, the OEM no longer updated their drivers to suit W10, so I was stuck with the MS generic drivers for it.

I even went the old fashioned route of visiting all my peripherals manufacturers web sites and downloaded their W10 drivers. Has MS superseded this method by having OEMs provide them with their drivers? 😲 😲
I frankly amazed that the OEMs would accept this. Providing an outside company, MS, with their proprietary software? 😲
I must admit, I've lost touch with all this stuff over the last 10 years. I thought I'd bought and built my last computer, only to now find that's not so 😆
 
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