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Microsoft has been slowing down Windows 10 computers

For this, the blog NTDev you have checked the installation time, boot time, reboot, how long it takes to open a Win32 and a UWP program, search, performance tests, stress, quick scan with Windows Defender, storage performance, and finally the time it takes on shutting down the operating system. The numbers below refer to the system builds of each version:

  • Build 10240: RTM
  • Build 10586: November Update
  • Build 14393: Anniversary Update
  • Build 15063: Creators Update
  • Build 16299: Fall Creators Update
  • Build 17134: April 2018 Update
  • Build 17763: October 2018 Update
  • Build 18363: November 2019 Update
  • Build 19041: May 2020 Update

Startup, reboot, and almost everything slower

Starting with the installation time, the figure has been changing, where 1809 is the one that took the longest with 18 minutes and 40 seconds. Thus, the time has been changing in the different versions, but currently it is only a little more than a minute longer than with the first version of the system.

The boot time yes it has been consistently getting worse, going from 13 seconds with the first version, to 34 seconds in the current one.

With the reboot time something similar happens, where it started in 24 seconds, and currently stands at 39 seconds, probably due to the security improvements that have been integrated into the system.

The opening applications it has also consistently evolved for the worse. For the 7 seconds it took at the beginning, it is now 16 seconds. With UWP the trend is the same.

The graphics performance It seems to have been drastically improved over the latest version, taking just 24 seconds to complete the ADeltaX REGDI32 performance test. However, the non-stop opening of Win32 programs to the limit shows that the performance has deteriorated compared to previous versions.

What has improved from the beginning at least is the Windows Defender performance, which now performs complete analyzes in less time than at the beginning, taking 14 seconds compared to 16, although it took 9 minutes with the previous version.

It has also improved the storage performance, ranking very high in the last three versions of Windows 10.

Finally, the shutdown time It has varied a lot, although it has remained relatively stable between 6 and 11 seconds, starting at 10 and ending at the current 11.

Slower in exchange for greater security

What could all these changes be due to? Microsoft may not have to worry about the Resource consumption As many as in the past when you had mobiles, you have left a little margin so that more resources are consumed without problem. However, it has also improved security of the system and the amount of items to check at each moment, which has probably had the most influence. For this reason, in exchange for practically forgetting about viruses on our computers, we have a somewhat higher load time throughout the system.

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