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Originally Posted by taustin
The trick, as it has always been, is to get rid of (or not install) anything that you don't really need. My tablet runs 8,.1 on an Atom processor with 2 GB of RAM, and is more responsive than my desktop at home with 64 bit Win7, 16 GB and a quad core processor, because I am very picky about what I install on it.
(And it's not Microsoft's fault. It's the vendor you bought it from, who get paid to pre-install loads of crap, nearly all of which a) runs all the time, and b) spies on you for the software company.)
Yeah, Windows updates is a little slow, but that's true on all versions, not just 8.1.
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I already uninstalled a lot of the BS software. But it is also Microsoft's fault for building a bunch of crap into Win 8.1 that we don't need or want. The touch interface is not very good, and no doubt it eats up a lot of processing power too. And it is certainly Microsoft's fault that we have so many updates, many of which trash working drivers. This is Vista all over again. Win 95 was okay, ME sucked, XP was good, Vista sucked, Win 7 was good, Win 8 sucks. Every other upgrade is a stinker, and Win 8 is the stinker. Even just browsing the internet in Firefox can be slow.