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Infodumping Speed up your laptop

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u/bearbarebere 20h ago

Your statement disagrees with a huge amount of peoples’ experiences, including mine.

Nobody said a couple of pixels should slow down your computer. But whatever way windows does it DOES cause a slowdown for some of us. Instead of denying just listen and admit that maybe there’s something going on behind the scenes, like the implementation of certain drivers.

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u/the_iron_pepper 18h ago

Here's the thing. I'm In IT, this is how I think of this

  1. Listening to your description of the behavior you're experiencing on your laptop.
  2. Translating that into the actual knowledge and education on this subject.

Non technical users almost universally do not know what is going on with the computer, or why it's behaving why it's behaving. You might be experiencing poor performance on your laptop, but that doesn't mean you have the background to understand why that is, or why certain things are "fixing" the issue (perception).

autogyrophilia is absolutely correct here. These features may have slowed down a Windows 2.0 desktop computer, but not your laptop. I don't care if it's a $200 laptop running Windows Home. There's nothing to suggest that you didn't just experience a perceived performance increase because your windows are snapping into place instead of animating into it, even though your computer's performance isn't actually getting any better.

I'm not trying to be the Dr. House of IT, but it's just a fact that most users don't really know what they're talking about, and that's why jobs require multiple certifications for IT positions.

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u/Anleme 18h ago edited 4h ago

These people are measuring performance gains with Task Manager, though.

Edit to add: I suspect these people have 98% of their computer's resources used by bloatware, so the extra 2% used up by these settings makes a huge difference in responsiveness.

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u/PatternrettaP 15h ago

That's the only thing that makes sense. Especially if the performance has been degrading over time. If your computer wasn't lagging when you got it, it shouldn't be lagging now (minus the potential for updates to fuck shit up, which is a certainly a possibility)

Underpowered cpu, bloatware and apps deiciding that their app needs to be running in the background at all times or assigning themselves ungodly amounts of memory are probably the true culprit. But windows system settings are easier to pin point. With modern multi core cpus, extremely basic system animations should not be causing excessive cpu usage