windows 11 getting on my nerves

[WilliamM2]

@WilliamM2 what tweaks have you done? pls share vids or links that worked for you.
im experiencing huge lag or just plain crash with win11. if i cant tweak win11 to be faster, i will just restore the win10 backups. win11 is really lousy just doing simple tasks. opening Excel 2002 used to take less than 1 second. now it's more like 3 or 4s.

Main tweak was installing StartAllBack to get my "Quick Launch" back, and make 11 look like 10.

I have no lag, crashing, or speed issues at all, runs lust like 10 did, or faster. Mint was where I have speed issues, different computer.

 

[mikeymikec]

@WilliamM2 what tweaks have you done? pls share vids or links that worked for you.
im experiencing huge lag or just plain crash with win11. if i cant tweak win11 to be faster, i will just restore the win10 backups. win11 is really lousy just doing simple tasks. opening Excel 2002 used to take less than 1 second. now it's more like 3 or 4s.

I would separate your problems into performance and stability issues if you want to find solutions as quickly as possible. Win11 despite its faults in my experience should not be crashing; I presume you're getting a blue or black screen message saying that Windows has encountered problems (if so, more details needed), or are you getting something else in this respect?

Also, it may be worth starting a new thread about the stability problems.

 

[luv2liv]

@mikeymikec no blue/black screen. it's more like File Explorer window or some programs like FireFox randomly freezes, greyed out whereby i cannot do anything unless i hit the X to close that window. even X sometimes does not work to close the window.

 

[mikeymikec]

@mikeymikec no blue/black screen. it's more like File Explorer window or some programs like FireFox randomly freezes, greyed out whereby i cannot do anything unless i hit the X to close that window. even X sometimes does not work to close the window.

Ok, so the system is still responding so it's probably software rather than hardware. The Windows Event Log may yield some useful results. Also, make a list of apps that do, and apps that don't have this problem.

 

[Shmee]

I agree, this sounds like some software/OS corruption happened during the upgrade. Assuming it was an upgrade from Windows 10 to 11. You could try doing the typical sfc /scannow and chkdsk /f to see if that helps.

 

[iCyborg]

I had a bit of a drama this morning.
I resumed my edsktop PC and discovered there was no internet. First I tried with my phone, and after realizing the stupidity of that, I grabbed my tablet that has no LTE. It was fine.
Then I went through a slew of typical steps, reset adapter, disable/reenable device, reboot both modem and wifi router, restart PC, even check BIOS, different cable, nothing worked, it just kept saying "cable not plugged in". I grabbed my work laptop which has an ethernet port. It worked fine with the same cable.
At this point I concluded that ethernet died on my MB or maybe some dust somewhere, what else could it be. MB and the whole PC are only ~3 months old, so quite dissapointing.

As my coffee was getting cold, I enabled wifi which my MB fortunately has, and since I was already restarting, I unpaused Win updates and let it update while I went to watch video. Soon after, video froze for a few seconds, I was like "what now", and then realized that ethernet "got fixed" during a Windows Update install, and it's been working fine now.

What the effing F? How did it get so borked that nothing was helping for an hour and a half, and just letting update fixed it, so must've been a SW problem.
And if my PC had no wifi, how would I have fixed it at all. Maybe a usb-c to ethernet adapter would work, but I would have to go buy it somewhere. While I'm glad it's no HW problem, I'm still pissed at this. 😡
I suppose there's a slight possibility that it was fixed by a fan blowing off dust from the wrong place and it just happened while update was installing, but it's too much of a coincidence.