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0 pointsxnorswap1y ago0 comments

Windows 11 is horribly slow at everything it does. It's borderline unusable. Just hitting the windows key and typing "notepad" and hitting enter has gone from something that was near instant in windows XP to something that takes 30 seconds and only sometimes might be successful. I'm assuming it's waiting for network requests to send off what I'm typing to bing/cortana/etc before giving me the result I want.

Yes it could also be trying to then virus-check all the data it's sending and receiving without my informed consent.

I'm not trying to say windows 11 is good, just that it's an odd thing to first remove the one product that is still better than the alternatives. Because as horrible as defender is, have you experienced commercial AV products?

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maccard1y ago

> Just hitting the windows key and typing "notepad" and hitting enter has gone from something that was near instant in windows XP to something that takes 30 seconds and only sometimes might be successful

Agreed. It's also surprisingly easy to fix - disable web search in the start menu. [0]

> Because as horrible as defender is, have you experienced commercial AV products?

yes, and they're a disgrace. I don't normally engage in baiting on here, but honestly a lot of them are worse than the viruses they protect you from. McAfee and Norton are _literally_ spyware.

At $PREV_JOB carbon black was installed over the weekend, and I was working on some performance related tasks. All my results were invalidated because of the slowdown it imparted on _everything_.

That doesn't give defender a free pass for falling from grace though.

[0] https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2024/May/03/Speed-up-your...

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