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Originally Posted by Blossom
I think it's a laptop thing. All three laptops have good specs my laptop is the oldest Samsung ATIV Book 4, Hubby is Lenovo Idealpad 330 and Mom's is a Dell Inspiron 15 all have Windows 10 Home. All seem to run laggish. I think hubby's is the fastest of the three. All but mine are running WD and WF as security. I use Avast with only file shield enable and tweak to run super light, Voodoo Shield Pro and Windows Firewall with a few lock down tweaks using system hardener. It's a very lightweight setup on resources but very secure. Windows Defender bogs my system down but runs fine on the other two.
I think all the background tasks that Win 10 does is to blame for the lagging.
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I don't see that here. What all are you running? (My SO has an ASUS laptop running Win10 Home. She doesn't see it either.)
How much RAM do you have? Win10 wants at least 3GB. The sweet spot seems to be 6GB. I have 8GB and things fly.
What HD does your laptop have? How fast is it? How big a page file do you use? What performance settings do you have configured?
How do you connect to the Internet? If you are connecting via a wireless router, the router likely has a hardware firewall. You may be going through more trouble than you have to.
I'd try an experiment. If you connect to the Internet via Wifi, turn it
off on your laptop. Then disable Avast and other security products you run. Reboot, and see what boot time and program load time is like.
Windows Defender and Windows Firewall have
no perceptible impact here. I run them to keep Windows happy, but would not miss them if they didn't exist. As mentioned, I'm behind a hardware firewall in my router, and don't actually need a software firewall on the desktop. And I don't do the sorts of things that let viruses in, so I could live without Windows Defender. The fact that Windows Defender does seem to be a resource hog on your machine makes me suspect configuration problems.
I suspect your attempts to secure your system may be part of your problem, and you may be going through more trouble than you have to.
Run Task Manager and look at the Processes tab. What's using CPU? How much RAM do you have? What's using it?
Click the Startup tab in Task Manager. What are you loading on startup? What does Task Manager say the performance impact is? Do you need all of those things loaded?
Something is odd about your installation, but without more details, I can't even guess at what.
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Dennis