On 05/13/16 21:31, Tim so wittily quipped:
Drew wrote in :

Curious and considering it.
Recent custom build with Intel core 17 4790, 16 gigs of ram, 256 gig
ssd for c:, 2tb drive for docs and such. Also using several externals
for backups and other storage.
On this type of system where 8.1 seems to run well and very fast. The
question is would win 10 be the same or better?

I am not a fan of some of the new features, but on my system Win10 seems to
run faster than 8.1 did.

interestingly enough, this has been measured. Win-10-nic is still a bit
slower than 7 and XP, though, from the measurement results I've seen.
And made. SPINNY drives have the worst comparison, since Win-10-nic
seems to be a bit unfriendlier to them. Too much registry crap compared
to earlier versions, WAY slows things down due to internally 'paranoid'
cacheing like "I gotta re-re-re-re-read that AGAIN because it *might*
have changed, even though that's impossible". I'm pretty sure that with
the registry, THAT is happening [which is why an SSD makes such a huge
difference, even though it shouldn't be THAT huge, because spinny disks
have latency due to the 'spinning' thing, and I'm right about the
'paranoid cacheing'].