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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
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
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Samsung ATIV Book 4*NP470R5E-K02UB 15.6-Inch Laptop (2.0 GHz Intel Core i7-3537U Processor, 8GB Memory, 750GB Hard Drive, Windows 8) Mineral Ash Black.
I think the WD issue is hardware configuration related. I ran for a week with nothing but Windows Defender and default firewall and the computer was just bogged down. Switching to a lightweight AV such as Avast and tweaking it to run light showed a 80% difference. Even now with my latest security setup it runs significantly better than without. My whole security setup takes less than 50MB of RAM. I am quite happy with it.
As for what I use it for Firefox with Facebook nothing else usually other than ebooks stuff like Calibre, ADE. I do have Microsoft Office 2016 installed and I know it's telemetry is always running for something. I no longer have Cortana issues. She's disabled. I think Microsoft and their weird select updates they keep sending a handful of us are also causing issues. I don't like my laptop is their experiment. I don't remember signing up for any program. Perhaps Samsung did....
No WiFi on my laptop causes havoc. It takes forever to login when it can't reach Microsoft.
I do have a router but it doesn't have a firewall built in. I keep task manager running. Performance is okay till all the background stuff starts happening. Firefox also uses alot of CPU. I'll post a screenshot next time I have the laptop running. Why one Firefox tab needs 8 processes is beyond me.
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