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.

...

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...

I find booting and shutting down significantly faster

using ssd will be super... use normal ide sata... stick to windows 7

This post has been edited by cyberloner: Aug 22 2015, 10:47 AM

nope for me

I don't think soo. But this window is faster than window 7 and 8

I update my windows 7 to windows 10 yesterday haven't feel anything its just normal on the speed. But in the interface not so use to it and try to learn as of now.

Win10 take longer time to boot up

maybe i am on SSD? feels faster on both my machine, both using SSD for boot drive

i prefer win10 from win7 because its feel more smooth on my machine..i using laptop dell vostro 5470.

According to Microsoft, Windows 10 is lighter than Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 is lighter than Windows 7.

windows 10 is pretty stable .. my cpu max up issue cleared after running wins10

Duno why, my pc ran into problems and require restart after updated to win 10 . I encountered this several times after uodatedw to win10

but my one is damn fast.
my laptop around 30 second. on HDD by the way good enough for me
my desktop with SSD around 10 second I believe. fresh installation from windows 8.1 straight upgrade to 10

Did you turn on fast startup? (should be on by default, but your installation have screwed up something)

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4189-fa...ndows-10-a.html

My 5 year old Alienware M11x-R2 taking ~30-45 seconds for boot up which is impressive considering it takes 2 minutes to boot up Win 7.

(also check your startup tab in your task manager and clean it up.. )

This post has been edited by martianunlimited: Sep 22 2015, 11:52 AM

Overall i tried win10 is better than win8.1 ,but boot time is some delay there..even i format whole HDD and install OS also same problem lolz.

Im installing on my new dell 7447. Slow startup too

I used win 10 for about 3 days.....but the thing is i dont have ms office....even i want to download from ms office ...education which is for student....i cant download it...dunno why....im using the given link from uni ....which we are already paid in the tuition fees...any suggestion anyone? Im sorry if out of the topic...hehe...btw can i used crack one ms office? Does it works?

I use Avast clean up or whatever it is called, now a bit faster. Yeah maybe upgrade from Win 8 gives some problems.

hmm don't like this Windows 10, just now do 1 download and watch some movie, it hangs! damn, well although startup and shutdown is fast, but getting use to the new stuffs are taking time.

think i'll downgrade back to windows 7, at least will be more efficient than just a faster startup and shutdown

for those who facing lagging while using win10, seeing memory usage 3g instead of 8g installed ram.(5g reserve example) do this step

win key+R>type msconfig>click ok> select boot tab> advance options > unchecked maximum memory box> restart

done!

Heavy? Hmm ... I think it's lighter
Back then when I was using Windows 8.1, startup took about 3 minutes before my PC is fully usable without hangs loads and stuff.
It only takes around 1 and a half minute for my Windows 10. So it's faster ^^
It could be faster, because there's some period of the boot showing a black screen after the logon logo. I did some research and found that I'm not the only one who have this problem.
I knew it'll probably slow down my PC if I did an upgrade with ton of stuff in my PC. So, I did format and uninstalled bloatware before upgrading.
Up until now, it's running smoothly. But I still prefer Aeroglass theme ^^

I found this tips somewhere via google search XD
very useful, indeed

It was a bit faster booting and shutting on my pc with ssd but slower than previous o/s on another pc without.

Faster than my win8.1 though
But in term of file transferring, I feel it consume too much resource though

Whenever I transfer a lot of files, my PC tends to response slower in other application

soo far my windows 10 pro excel on eveything on my last windows 8.1 and 7

=)

4gb ram not enough
Need 8.

Get a faster hdd or bkup n remove junk files n ensure not highly populated

8 gb not enough la.. 5 years my old laptop never said not enough memory.. but now new laptop same software 8gb windows 10...

And also get an SSD.

thx for this, would try after home

I feel boot up and shut down faster than win 8 and win 7, other than that still same

No need 8gb RAM
2gb is enough for laptop..
My 6 years old laptop is smooth with w10 even just 2gb DDR3 RAM

maybe for you 2gb ram is sufficient. these days having a 8gb ram is more practical.

btw wat will happen to my steam game and some program after free upgrade from win 7 ultimate?need to reinstall?

Agreed with u...nowadays is different.,more ram is better...especially for those hardcore user...hihi

No need , all user data and program is still there. However if the software is not supported by windows 10 you need to reinstall.

Well yeah but it's not about hardcore or not hehe first of all new laptops come with 64bit os. Secondly these days apps use ram to improve user experience.

However a better upgrade is to replace hdd with ssd as boot drive. There is a big dfference between the same machine that runs hdd and ssd as os drive.

if i want to make a bootable usb..how do i do that?i aready dl the microsoft media creation tool.so now need to wait the download files 1st rite?

Here . Pls make sure you have minimum 8GB of pendrive as well and yeah, need to download the .iso from windows.

Yeah..when you run that microsoft media creation tool it'll auto download the iso file direct from microsoft...but it'll take aquite few times to finished...huhu
4gb pendrive is enough...,but rarely found 4gb pendrive lately...huhu

This post has been edited by amitycox: May 9 2016, 04:43 PM

Yeah..my laptop also comes with 64-bit W7 home premium when i bought it in 2010...but i change it to W7 ultimate,better to me & now just got into W10..hehe
But RAM is still not upgraded till now...huhu...

Is laptop with hdd can use ssd as the boot drive..? Does it just plug n play or need some adjustment to change hdd to ssd?
(sorry..,a little noob in this..huhu)


This post has been edited by amitycox: May 9 2016, 04:49 PM

yes, i feel this too.

win10 is much heavier than win8.1.

but still better thab win7/8 in overall.

yes you can use ssd as boot drive in laptops. after w10 upgrade, you can just remove the hdd os partition and do a clean install of w10 on ssd.

for w10, always grab the latest version using media creation tool to do this, because if you used the older ones (like 10240 build), you will need to go through upgrade to 10586 build, then apply latest patches.

im on windows 10 , but i still think that windows 8.1 i prefer most , 10 bugs here and there , argh now im used to it , lol

can i dl windows 10 64bit pro from torrent to make the bootable usb or need microsoft file...btw can u give me the link to dl from microsoft link 64bit windows10 pro
ty in advance

U mean ahem ahem one?

ya
can ahem 1 be use as bootable usb?
if not then can giv me the ori microsoft link to dl?
can download here? http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/9230-wi...o-download.html
just wan to make a bootable usb iso,for future refference

This post has been edited by tlts: May 9 2016, 07:03 PM

Okey..,Thanks for the info...

yes, those links are valid ms download pages. you can just grab one from microsoft techbench if you don't wanna use media creation tool, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench

for uefi-enabled computers, you can just format your usb stick with fat32 (preferable capacity is 8gb), and extract contents of the iso with 7zip or winrar directly into the usb stick to make a bootable usb installer for w10.

ok.i am on win10 aready.so far.only 1 program not useble only.
lucky game all no problem yet

from pirated win7 to ori win 10....thats great.. haha

Same with me...no problem so far...just display driver.,but not so crucial problem..hihi

I don't know why but after I installed Windows 10 in my 9 month old laptop (Inspiron 7447), it refused to boot up after the 2nd day. I had to go back to my Win 8.1. Maybe after my current project is over, I'll give it another go.

Windows 10 actually faster then Windows 7 and slightly faster then Windows 8, but if you use normal HDD to install Windows as system drive sure will get slow on boot no matter Windows 7, 8 or 10, use SSD as system drive will no have such problem

This problem is not related to Windows 10. The reason is because your harddisk is getting old. The longer time you are running your harddisk, the slower Windows you are using by times. Its time to replace to new SSD.

run on windows 10 the best is 8GM, if windows getting slower, suspect are some system files corrupted or virus infection.
if harddisk getting old, you need to run scandisk or defra to check any bad sector.
If there is bad sector then you need to change new HDD

Win 10 have boot up and shutdown faster than previous win7 or win 8, but it is heavy

Windows 10 is pretty good never had any problems with the boot up

I had install Windows 10 in my home antique PC - Pentium D805 with 3 GB RAM, so far so good. I find it run better than Windows 7.

For testing purpose, I purposely reduce 1 GB and it is not run as better as it shall be. So IMO Windows 10 needs at least 3 GB RAM.

This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Jul 27 2017, 12:20 AM

the more RAM the better, when I had 8GB it will use 5GB, when I added to 16GB it will use 7GB, all running the same applications of Vuze, iTunes, Edge, Outlook, FTP.

Windows 10 required SSD to let it run perfectly smooth.

My antique 11 years old PC load insanity fast after I switch to SSD.



This post has been edited by Andrewtst: Sep 28 2017, 02:26 PM

Good to see the fast boot, W10 is good

Not really, I'm on SSD

The SSD is not booting fast ?

I mean I don't feel it's heavy since it's on my SSD

i see ok, best use SSD

I got atom powered laptop with 2GB RAM and the ram usage only around 1.1gb when idle with no program running. I feel it's better than win 7 or 8.

keep it up with Windows 10