Saw this today..

if you are having problems with windows booting slower, or more resources running in background..

https://www.pcworld.com/article/265...oft-is-making-it-load-at-windows-startup.html

You know how every annoying Windows program wants to launch as soon as you boot up your computer? Well, now Office is going to do that, too. A new “Startup Boost” function will set Office to load when Windows starts up, which will make apps like Word and Excel launch faster—while making the rest of your computer slower.

Whoopie.

 

And people wonder why some of choose to use older OS's on pc's not connected to the internet.

 

I mean, of all the things that can slow down boot to load startup services are trivial and take seconds to disable. And if you have no idea how to do that it takes all of a minute to learn...which if you're running a DAW on PC you should already know how to do as part of the 'make my daw, daw more--er' checklist process.

 

to be honest, major slowdown upon boot is the BIOS+security itself,
my ancient i7-3770K on Z77-I Deluxe mobo boots (and reboots) still little faster than any new PC with NVME SSD,
Office preloading things isn't bad IF you use such software anyway - and if not, then you shouldn't install it in first place

 

Type "app in background" in WIn1x search bar, click the link and disable every item you desire
Do the same with apps wich start automatically
Easy and effective

 

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Install SysInternals AutoRuns and get rid of the unnecessary auto-starting pest.

There are also other very useful utilities from SysInternals.

 

most people aren't even sure how the power on button works these days. I think you are being generous, to most its magic from the gods..

 

microsoft shouldn't make that choice for you, the owner of the machine. that should be your choice,not mandatory unless you purposefully disble it.

thats why people hate microsoft, there are an asshat marketing company masquerading as a software house.

 

Not me. I'm using GhostSpectre Compact Windows 11. Super fast. No bloatware and I only use the updates that he makes available. No problems. MS can go do something with themselves in the closet. Never had a crash, freeze or BSOD. Not once. I'm super happy with this OS. Better than Windows 10 even. Way faster.

 

Does it run on PC/notebook without TPM 2.0? TIA

 

None of the GS ISO's are TPM dependent. Unless you wanted to be. No idea why anyone would want it TPM dependent.

 

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MS assholes.
I say assholes because those who are ordering these things know they will cause trouble for all performance-oriented users, and they just don't care.
Does MS actually provide any real support for their products?
If they were a new company, they'd be dead already.

 

Yes. 100%

 

No one should be running a stock version of windows it should be setup, disable all crap services until you reach down to the necessary and basic ones. Then install all the Apps+plugins that you need, after this step image that drive into an external usb backup drive so you have an image of the OS+Apps+PLugins all ready to go in seconds if anything happens to that system.

Windows 10 should be running around 50 services at max nothing more than that ( remember some apps and drivers install some required services).

In your task manager check what is running, check Performance tab on task manager and see what is happening there. If your computer is idle There should be zero activities on the CPU or Drive section, if you see any cpu spikes your system is crap and needs to properly setup.

25 years of running Windows this way ZERO ACTIVITY on the CPU and drive ( Idle system)

This is what happened over the years

Windows XP - 12 services ( around)
Windows 7 - 34 ( around)
Windows 8 - 45 ( around)
Windows 10 - 54 ( around)
Windows 11 - 56 ( around)

These services keep the system running with internet, printing and other necessary services.
There is no antivirus, no firewall, no BS running.

Network Connection is disabled when working on the computer ( video, graphics, audio)
There is a batch on the desktop I run to disable automatically the network connection and another batch to turn it on.