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Not like Microsoft: improved Win7?

ehume

ehume

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I don't know about you, but as soon as I installed the Windows updates on this past Tuesday my system got much snappier.

I don't know if the apps are doing tasks any faster; that doesn't seem to be happening. But the rig seems to respond more quickly than it did. It's almost like a new install.

I thought maybe I was imagining things until tonight, when I put the wireless card back in my testbed and let it connect to the Net and install the Win updates. Like my main rig, it is running Win7-64 from an SSD.

Now it too is snappy. I'm kind of shocked at how well it responds.

It's not like Microsoft to improve the user experience of any of their OS's. I've been using Windows since 3.1, twenty years ago. I've never seen any improvement, until now. Now I'm seeing it on two systems.

Nice.
 
remember has SP3 gave XP a speed boost?

I think it has to do with the Platform update (maybe Im wrong) but you're right, mine seems so much snappier as well it's scary 🙂
 
Agree with Fardringle. Check your event log, something could have been fixed. I haven't noticed any speed increases.
 
Well, apps loading faster is a pretty nice find -- on both systems. And the second system is in the basement, has only a few apps. I use it for heatsink and fan testing.
 
I just tried Windows Update on my Win7 netbook, "installing 83 updates" it said (which took over an hour). The main thing I noticed after that was that my startup time went from around 7 seconds to 30 seconds! It did this every time turned on the computer (hanging on a black screen for around 20 seconds after the green bar finished moving). I did a System Restore (to 7:07pm today, before the 83 updates) and thankfully my startup time went back down to a speedy 7 seconds again. Never again will I use Windows Update! I'll take my chances and stay 83+ updates behind. :awe: :colbert:
 
Odds are there was probably something fudgey running in the background that was just begging for a restart to clear out the lingering gunk in the first place. The updates were just an excuse for you to actually let it restart.
 
I just hooked up a Win7 desktop that had been on my shelf for a couple weeks. The only updates I saw were for .net framework and Security Essentials. And of course the unholy Bing Desktop.
 
Pretty crazy, never seen that happen after an update, a slowdown in boot time?!
There must be something else wrong. Usually most windows updates outside of SP don't really affect performance noticeably.


ninaholic37 said:
I just tried Windows Update on my Win7 netbook, "installing 83 updates" it said (which took over an hour). The main thing I noticed after that was that my startup time went from around 7 seconds to 30 seconds! It did this every time turned on the computer (hanging on a black screen for around 20 seconds after the green bar finished moving). I did a System Restore (to 7:07pm today, before the 83 updates) and thankfully my startup time went back down to a speedy 7 seconds again. Never again will I use Windows Update! I'll take my chances and stay 83+ updates behind. :awe: :colbert:
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Mushkins said:
Odds are there was probably something fudgey running in the background that was just begging for a restart to clear out the lingering gunk in the first place. The updates were just an excuse for you to actually let it restart.
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Interesting thought. But both rigs get turned off -- one gets turned off every night, and the other gets left off between test runs. The upstairs rig has lots of apps; the downstairs rig only has apps needed to do testing.

Wish I'd measured before and after. But I'd never had an improvement before.
 
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