Info Win10 licences won't be sold after Jan 31st 2023

[mikeymikec]

Microsoft Will End Sale of Windows 10 Licenses to Consumers This Month - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system has been available on the retail market for over seven years and was superseded by Windows 11 in October 2021. However, despite its age, Windows 10 remains the most popular version of Windows, with a global market share...

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Just a quick fyi

 

[ch33zw1z]

@igor_kavinski - just got around to this quick, I had to enable SVM before I could enable Core isolation

First thing I noticed - unlocking my 3 bitlockered spinning disks went much faster. It would take about 5-10 seconds to unlock each after a reboot, less than 5 for each now. Nothing else was changed that I'm aware of besides these two settings. So maybe this will help, fingers crossed lol

edit - guess not. 37 seconds to load the first folder i tried to open on a spinning disk.

edit 2 - subsequent folder openings have taken less than 10, so it's still an improvement *shrug*

 

[igor_kavinski]

Slowness is a tradeoff in performance they made specifically for Windows 10/11:

BitLocker configuration: known issues - Windows Client

Describes common issues that involve your BitLocker configuration and BitLocker's general functionality, and provides guidance for addressing those issues.

learn.microsoft.com

By using the new conversion model, sensitive data can be stored on the drive as soon as BitLocker is turned on. The encryption process doesn't need to finish first, and encryption doesn't adversely affect performance. The tradeoff is that the encryption process for pre-existing data takes more time.

Also, bitlocker impacts the writing speed of HDDs a LOT more:

How Much does BitLocker Have Impacts on Hard Disk Read/Write Performance?

In test 2, there is not a very large impact on reading performance of HDD, but there are obvious differences when writing data, and the writing performance has a loss of 50% - 62%.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Slowness is a tradeoff in performance they made specifically for Windows 10/11:

BitLocker configuration: known issues - Windows Client

Describes common issues that involve your BitLocker configuration and BitLocker's general functionality, and provides guidance for addressing those issues.

learn.microsoft.com

Also, bitlocker impacts the writing speed of HDDs a LOT more:

How Much does BitLocker Have Impacts on Hard Disk Read/Write Performance?

I'm not seeing slowness on writes, so again...not applicable.

It could be one of the drives is having an issue, but it’s been a pretty consistent problem for a while. I’ve made a number of changes over the 2 years of owning the platform, but this has been a running theme.

I appreciate that your even bothering to toss info my way though

 

[Pohemi]

I've been thinking about purchasing a 2nd NUC to use as a media system. I bought a spare Win10 key in case I do, simply so I don't have to install 11 (yet).

For how long 11 has been out now, I can't believe all the issues I still read about people running into with it. Even for MS, the amount of time to smooth things out with a new OS has gotten ridiculous IMHO.

I do see issues with network items under This PC. Half the time it won't see my NAS when I open File Explorer. I have to keep it pinned for quick access. It still takes several seconds to search before it opens.

That sounds to me like the spin-up time for the NAS drives to be accessible. That won't be instant when they're not already spinning. Besides Windows power settings putting drives into standby that aren't being used, many NAS units also have power-saving settings or modes that might be adjustable if you wanted to keep them spinning 24/7 to keep the NAS instantly-accessible.

 

[albi56r]

So, finally Microsoft is pushing everyone to Windows 11. It seems every major companies do the same tactics. Many Gmail users complain, Gmail is forcing them to verify the recovery phone numbers.

Gmail is Forcing its users to verify the recovery phone number

I am getting the TTL expired in Transit error message when I ping my remote server.

You may need to check the routing tables and remove any loops.

How to Fix TTL Expired in Transit Error?

 

[hoangcf]

Why do so many people like Windows 10?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Why do so many people like Windows 10?

Because it doesn't have jarring and conflicting UI choices apparent in different parts of the OS like Windows 11.

Also, Windows 10 is stable. Win11 is kind of a work in progress, what in the Linux world is called a bleeding edge distribution. All kinds of cool and crappy stuff gets pushed into Windows 11, to see what sticks and what doesn't, annoying long time users to no end.

 

[Igo69]

Does MS wants to buy me a new PC so i can upgrade to their Win11?