Windows 10 running on my laptop. 2.16GHz 4GB RAM. I can feel it becomes slower than Win 8. I only do typing and surfing stuff.

from win7 to win10, I feel boot up fast and shut down too, other than that still same

It has been proven that it can run on 12 years old AMD CPU on 256MB RAM.

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ope...e-proof-1288287

So whatever heaviness you're experiencing might not be the Windows, but your own system.

1. Check the task manager what process is hogging what resources. It could be either memory, disk or CPU. Most of the time it is the indexing services reading your disks hogging the CPU and HDD bandwidth causing the slowness.
2. If you do upgrade, you might want to check all drivers and update them to Windows 10 version of the driver. Some driver does cause issues like Killer NIC causing memory leak without the Windows 10 driver.
3. If you do upgrade, you might want to do clean installation. Historically, Windows always have some sort of error when people do upgrade. Despite Windows 10 is the cleanest I've ever experience, a clean install might help your issue.

clean install to make it fast.

Win 10 is slow in booting. OMG. Clean install also still need 1 min+ to boot into Desktop. WTF!

Upgraded from win7 home to win10 home

Mine is 2011 year laptop, intel sandy bridge

So far boot up and shutdown faster than previous win7

software and hardware compatibility all ok?

So far some of my steam games like INSURGENCY, counter strike 1.6 CZ not working

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator CS6 all working fine

MOst likely after install, power mode is set to power saving. Turn back on Max Performance.

Yes, windows 10 is heavy, 10kg heavier. 😛

Jokes aside, I do feel the same after upgrading/clean install from windows 8.1.

My wife who was on windows 7 say windows 10 is faster.

Performance mode only increase brightness and graphic I think.

Faster in booting. But I don't really mind a bit longer booting. But my Windows 10 click start menu also a bit lag.

Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on both my desktop and laptop
didnt experience this problem, both get faster boot speed..

Alright just want to confirm.

something not right there...

Very high disk usage after upgraded from win8.1 to win10. Boot up time longer, always feel laggy, haven't tried any games.

running on i5-5200U with 8GB RAM

Wrong. Power Saving mode will throttle your CPU and even switch to internal GPU (if you have both internal and external gpu).

+1
heck my win10 also can can handle my 2gb old pc without lag

I have a some sort AMD with 1GB SD ram, ATI 9250 AGP, haven't really have the time to test W10 on it, but previous attemp with insider build wasn't going so well as it seems to have some issue with graphic where the animations bog down the system. Well, see when I got time to play around with it.

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Anyway, no "heavy" problem on my main machine (i5 Sandy Bridge) with SSD. 20 sec boot.
Nah, even my several years old W7 don't runs "heavy" on SSD anyway.
If you're still on traditional HDD, check for health status with Crystal Disk Info, see if your HDD acting up, bad sector, reading error, etc.

And yes I also recommend clean install at the end.
After upgrade, fetch your free key, format, re-install with ISO. Yea it's kinda annoying process but... for the sake of a clean stable system.
I bet large majority of the problems people talked on the Internet usually comes from the "upgrade", either inherited problem or problems created after migration.

not really, i think it perform quite well compared to windows 8. mayb you can try reset or clean install to see if the issue still persist. Most important, make sure your driver is updated and compatible with windows 10.

This post has been edited by Azusa_San: Aug 17 2015, 06:13 PM

I would imagine in your situation, it comes down to few things

1. Early driver version issue. Not to mention AMD/ATI nowadays is really famous with their slow driver update.
2. Early build issue. I've experienced this with my GTX680 on Win8 preview previously. It certainly could be coming from early driver bugs as well but never take early preview build as an indicator for final build because the whole system (OS and drivers themselves) are not mature enough.
3. Your system itself. SDRAM is pretty old... A lot older compared to first gen DDR (while DDR is technically an SDRAM, I'm assuming it is SDR SDRAM and not DDR). I would imagine the CPU your system running on is a lot less capable compared to the one that the author of the article use.

But again, we also need to admit that the PC in the article doesn't run with good performance as well at 256MB. While it booted up fine, it took 41sec to open file explorer.

I would really love to try Win10 on an old PC just for the sake of reviewing the experience, but I don't have a working old PC...