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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to
make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
On 11/03/2020 16:11, Art Todesco wrote:
Am I missing something here? Probably you are missing a fully functional brain. Just ask somebody to hit your head with a hammer. If you go back to W7 then it would be a great loss to Microsoft. You are doing a great favour to Microsoft by using its operating system. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
On 2020-03-11 11:11 a.m., Art Todesco wrote:
W10 has been a dud for me.Â* It's slow.Â* I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7.Â* In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing.Â* Everything is lagging behind.Â* Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more.Â* Why bother.Â* Am I missing something here? Something has gone awry for sure, Both of ours are very fast and responsive, Did you do an upgrade or a fresh new install? Rene |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
Art Todesco wrote:
W10 has been a dud for me.Â* It's slow.Â* I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7.Â* In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing.Â* Everything is lagging behind.Â* Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more.Â* Why bother.Â* Am I missing something here? The latest W10 is very fast here. MS have come a long way with it since its initial release. That typing lag is your immediate target. Such a thing might occur now and again when a CPU-intensive activity grabs all resources, but not as the norm. Ed |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
On 3/11/2020 12:11 PM, Art Todesco wrote:
W10 has been a dud for me.Â* It's slow.Â* I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7.Â* In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing.Â* Everything is lagging behind.Â* Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more.Â* Why bother.Â* Am I missing something here? The PC is a 3.2G 6 core AMD processor with 8G RAM. I did do the upgrade and not a clean install. That might be something to try when I have a few days to do all the re-installations of all the programs, etc. |
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On 11/03/2020 21:10, Art Todesco wrote:
On 3/11/2020 12:11 PM, Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? The PC is a 3.2G 6 core AMD processor with 8G RAM. I did do the upgrade and not a clean install. That might be something to try when I have a few days to do all the re-installations of all the programs, etc. Buy a new hard disk and install Windows 10 on it. Keep your old drive just in case needed. You are doing a great favour to Microsoft. God knows what will Microsoft do if you decide to install Linux junk. Microsoft won't have any reasons to laugh at nutters. -- With over 1.2 billion devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
Art Todesco wrote:
W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? Was that a clean install and with all the updates and (new/lat)est drivers? -- "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb." --Sir Francis Bacon in Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
On 3/11/20 10:43 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-03-11 11:11 a.m., Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me.Â* It's slow.Â* I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7.Â* In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing.Â* Everything is lagging behind.Â* Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more.Â* Why bother.Â* Am I missing something here? Something has gone awry for sure, Both of ours are very fast and responsive, Did you do an upgrade or a fresh new install? I don't get the typing lag in my W10 main system. My system is somewhat slower now than when W10 was first installed. Clean install, something about the W7 install before it was not liked by W10. I got some error message about an unsafe operating system. However... I run my system differently than I did before. When I first installed W10, I rarely multitasked, did not use task views, and did not sleep/hibernate the system. Virtual memory was controlled by Windows. Now, I do a lot of multitasking using Task View, virtual memory is set to a fixed size, and I sleep/hibernate the system. For years I looked for a recommendation of how large to set the virtual memory, then accidentally stumbled on to a recommendation. So I followed it. But after letting what I'd done bubble in the brain, what I did may actually have been a negative. The article did not include a date, so it may be for older hardware and lower RAM than I have. I'm contemplating adding more RAM, so have not pursued the issue. Thunderbird has the typing issue you mention for years, yet they've never fixed it. I do not use W10 for my email, so I don't know what would happen there if I used Thunderbird on W10. -- Ken MacOS 10.14.6 Firefox 70.0.1 Thunderbird 60.9 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On 2020-03-11 4:10 p.m., Art Todesco wrote:
On 3/11/2020 12:11 PM, Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me.Â* It's slow.Â* I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7.Â* In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing.Â* Everything is lagging behind.Â* Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more.Â* Why bother.Â* Am I missing something here? The PC is a 3.2G 6 core AMD processor with 8G RAM.Â* I did do the upgrade and not a clean install.Â* That might be something to try when I have a few days to do all the re-installations of all the programs, etc. It may help, 6 months ago I built a new system with an AMD 5 3400g CPU running at 3.2 GHz and 16 GB of ram, I did a clone of Windows 10 from my old system but was not happy, Everything seemed rather slow and was getting all kinds of small problems. So I finally said enough and wiped the drive clean and installed the latest version of Windows 10, Then everything was back to normal and it ran like it should. I then started reinstalling programs slowly day by day as I needed them, I know it took a while but gave me the advantage of cleaning out years of old unneeded cruft, By the way 8 GB of ram is fine, I ran windows 10 quite well on my old system on 6 GB. There is an old saying "the longest way round is sometimes the shortest way home". :-) Rene |
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On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:11:07 -0400, Art Todesco
wrote: W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? I agree that W7 is better than W10. I only lasted a few days with W10 before reinstalling W7. Steve -- Neural Network Software http://www.npsnn.com JustNN Just a neural network http://www.justnn.com EasyNN-plus More than just a neural network http://www.easynn.com SwingNN Prediction software http://www.swingnn.com |
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On 2020-03-11 09:43, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-03-11 11:11 a.m., Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me.Â* It's slow.Â* I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7.Â* In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing.Â* Everything is lagging behind.Â* Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more.Â* Why bother.Â* Am I missing something here? SomethingÂ* has gone awry for sure, Both of ours are very fast and responsive, Did you do an upgrade or a fresh new install? Rene Rene is correct. Something is wrong. W10 is indeed slower and buggier than W7, but only about 10 to 20% slower. If you have a spare hard drive, trying doing a fresh/clean install on the spare drive and see if it still drags. If so, you have hardware issues. If not, the upgrade went foobar on you. |
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Art Todesco wrote:
On 3/11/2020 12:11 PM, Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? The PC is a 3.2G 6 core AMD processor with 8G RAM. I did do the upgrade and not a clean install. That might be something to try when I have a few days to do all the re-installations of all the programs, etc. What kind of HID subsystem are you running ? Keyboard and mouse could be: Over PS/2 ports (lowest jitter) Over USB2 (a bit more sampling/polling jitter) latency still good/excellent Over Bluetooth Uh oh. Bluetooth *might* be a problem, if you have an external USB3 hard drive. Cable emissions can interfere with BT or Wifi, as the cable gives off 2.5GHz RF. This would be the case if the drive was powered. If the drive has an ON/OFF switch, in the OFF position the RF on the cable should stop. RF can cause retransmissions on Bluetooth. I've seen latency on computers here, even with PS/2. Sometimes thunderbird falls behind, but it's usually when I have a taskbar full of programs open at the time. A command like "winsat formal" in an administrator command prompt window, provide some benchmarks for a computer, but the Windows 10 version is a bit broken. I tried the Win7 version and it works OK, and does video testing. But there's no HID testing. This is mostly pointless. https://i.postimg.cc/2jJNMDKh/winsat...estmachine.gif HID testing would be hard to do anyway (would need additional instrumentation to make a good test). You'd need, say, a video camera watching the keyboard, as the keys are pressed. Or perhaps, a LED indicator indicating when a key press code (UP or DOWN code) was sent over the cable. In order to make an attempt at measuring system latency. You can get a general overview of hardware with CPUZ, but this doesn't cover everything. (Portable version) https://www.cpuid.com/downloads/cpu-z/cpu-z_1.91-en.zip Screenshot. https://i.postimg.cc/FRnS4RMj/cpuz.gif Paul |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
On 3/11/2020 5:19 PM, Ant wrote:
Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? Was that a clean install and with all the updates and (new/lat)est drivers? No, I did the upgrade thing. |
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I'm almost ready to go back to W7
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Art Todesco wrote: On 3/11/2020 5:19 PM, Ant wrote: Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? Was that a clean install and with all the updates and (new/lat)est drivers? No, I did the upgrade thing. Somebody "threatening" to go back to W7 from W10 is like a person threatening to go back to water after a spree of drinking sulfuric acid. Not exactly a big news item. -- Just remember: Pence is all the evil, with none of the crazy. |
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Art Todesco wrote:
On 3/11/2020 5:19 PM, Ant wrote: Art Todesco wrote: W10 has been a dud for me. It's slow. I've done all kinds of things to make it better, but it's still not as responsive as W7. In several programs I will be typing along and find that the screen is 5 or 10 letters behind my typing. Everything is lagging behind. Just clicking on a button, which used to happen instantly, now takes 2 or 3 second and sometimes even more. Why bother. Am I missing something here? Was that a clean install and with all the updates and (new/lat)est drivers? No, I did the upgrade thing. Try a clean install. Upgrades can be messy. -- "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb." --Sir Francis Bacon in Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100. Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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