Microsoft Gives Windows 10 a Major Performance Boost

btarunr · Nov 12, 2015

Microsoft released its first major update to Windows 10, with its centerpiece being a performance boost specific to the OS. Redmond claims that with this update, Windows 10 will be up to 30 percent quicker to start-up than Windows 7, and will have higher "performance in everyday tasks." The company also updated Cortana, its voice-assistant, to take inputs from your device's pen. Now you can simply scribble something in Cortanta's notebook, and it will recognize the information, such as phone numbers, e-mail addresses, physical/postal addresses; event and movie bookings; etc. Windows 10 is available for free to current users of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

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RejZoR · Nov 12, 2015

I wonder if they also fixed the stupid non-functional standby mode. I have a high end brand new motherboard, brand new PSU and it is IMPOSSIBLE to use standby and hibernation (or hybrid mode). Because on next boot, machine just cycles in what looks like borked up POST-ing process. But always works if it's a normal warm or cold boot... Get your stupid priorities right Microsoft...

Antykain · Nov 12, 2015

Still on Windows 10 version 10586.3 atm here.. No update available yet on my end, but looking forward to seeing the improvements to an already pretty snappy Win10. I have read that the update is coming out in waves though. Hopefully that wave gets to me soon.

Edit: My bad.. 10586.3 is the new update version, which has been available to "Insiders" for a while now it seems. lol.

Jborg · Nov 12, 2015

btarunr said:
Redmond claims that with this update, Windows 10 will be up to 30 percent quicker to start-up than Windows 7,

Source: Microsoft

Windows 7 for me already boots completely in under 10 seconds....

xkm1948 · Nov 12, 2015

Totally loving Windows 10 now. So much better than 7 and 8.1

Batou1986 · Nov 12, 2015

30% faster no explanation as to why :confused:

Still no fix for USB HID Joysticks keeping the computer/monitor from sleeping :banghead:

Jborg said:
Windows 7 for me already boots completely in under 10 seconds....

Same

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 12, 2015

xkm1948 said:
Totally loving Windows 10 now. So much better than 7 and 8.1

I would agree with that statement.

horik · Nov 12, 2015

Let`s see if they let me setup my surround headset.

GhostRyder · Nov 12, 2015

Cool, looking forward to try it!

MakeDeluxe · Nov 12, 2015

Nice try Microsoft but I'm still not gonna upgrade from 7.

bonehead123 · Nov 12, 2015

yes but does it make my coffee, shine my shoes and at least offer to wipe my butt ?

If not, then keep working Microsloft, hehehehe

But seriously, I thought 10 was already pretty fast from day 1, so if this boost is real, I'm all for it !

Kursah · Nov 12, 2015

xkm1948 said:
Totally loving Windows 10 now. So much better than 7 and 8.1

+1 Loving it, so far been great on all my workstations, laptops both at home and at work.

Drone · Nov 12, 2015

I couldn't care less about boot time. I don't sit and count seconds and I don't turn on/off machine every two seconds.

But I really appreciate that they introduced new memory and compression optimizations. Edge works much better now, new icons and Cortana are great too. Context menus are back to normal and other UI and under-the-hood tweaks make a difference.

The only crappy thing is .. drivers. Realtek Audio, Intel graphics and Nvidia are constantly optimizing for W10 which is great but what about other drivers? Still no solid Intel USB 3 drivers, Broadcom wlan drivers are still ancient, and what about AMD graphics support for older apu/gpu for W10? Vendors/Manufacturers/Microsoft are too reluctant about that.

MxPhenom 216 · Nov 12, 2015

MakeDeluxe said:
Nice try Microsoft but I'm still not gonna upgrade from 7.

Get off the old software already.

Ahhzz · Nov 12, 2015

Drone said:
I couldn't care less about boot time. I don't sit and count seconds and I don't turn on/off machine every two seconds.

......

I only reboot my gaming pc once a month at best, and my file server stays on all the time.

AsRock · Nov 12, 2015

Makes me wounder if they fixed the cold boot issue i was having,although i cannot be assed to try atm. need to wait until i can afford to update a program anyways so.

Not going take their word for it and see if others have any luck, think i be just better of waiting until later next year to see

lilhasselhoffer · Nov 12, 2015

I somehow remember an article in which we were told that windows 8 is here to stay, and that not updating to it was a failure on our parts.

Who would have done that....

Sounds a lot like the Windows 10 hype...

I'm sorry, but 30% faster boots months after launch seems to do more to confirm my suspicions than to alleviate them. MS pushed Windows 10 out the door, when a couple more months of development would have done it well. Those who immediately counter that point with "but the development costs" really need to first address the fact that Windows 10 is being given away to people with valid copies of 7 and 8/8.1. Once you can square all of that, I'll admit that my point has no merit.

On the positive side, it looks like MS is actually putting some effort into improving 10 continuously. That's definitely a good thing.

hojnikb · Nov 12, 2015

RejZoR said:
I wonder if they also fixed the stupid non-functional standby mode. I have a high end brand new motherboard, brand new PSU and it is IMPOSSIBLE to use standby and hibernation (or hybrid mode). Because on next boot, machine just cycles in what looks like borked up POST-ing process. But always works if it's a normal warm or cold boot... Get your stupid priorities right Microsoft...

Smells like bad drivers or issue on your end. Of all the PCs i deployed Win10, i have yet to see something similar to this.

Ahhzz · Nov 12, 2015

MxPhenom 216 said:
Get off the old software already.

erixx · Nov 12, 2015

RejZoR said:
I wonder if they also fixed the stupid non-functional standby mode. I have a high end brand new motherboard, brand new PSU and it is IMPOSSIBLE to use standby and hibernation (or hybrid mode). Because on next boot, machine just cycles in what looks like borked up POST-ing process. But always works if it's a normal warm or cold boot... Get your stupid priorities right Microsoft...

IIRC correctly you have a X99 Sabertooth, right? Same here with the X99-S board. Man am I tired. Very rarely it suspends or hibernates, but most nights it does not and instead of 0 Watts is takes 70 idling...

If the cold boot and energy saving bugs turn out to be related, not to my overclocked mobo, but to Win 10 THEY GONNA HEAR ME IN REDMONT!!

eddman · Nov 12, 2015

RejZoR said:
I wonder if they also fixed the stupid non-functional standby mode. I have a high end brand new motherboard, brand new PSU and it is IMPOSSIBLE to use standby and hibernation (or hybrid mode). Because on next boot, machine just cycles in what looks like borked up POST-ing process. But always works if it's a normal warm or cold boot... Get your stupid priorities right Microsoft...

Are you certain it's a win 10 issue? It could be a BIOS/UEFI and/or chipset driver issue, not playing nice with windows 10.

Pill Monster · Nov 12, 2015

eddman said:
Are you certain it's a win 10 issue? It could be a BIOS/UEFI and/or chipset driver issue, not playing nice with windows 10.

I was just thinking the same... @RejZoR is UEFI compatability mode disabled?

Digital Dreams · Nov 12, 2015

xkm1948 said:
Totally loving Windows 10 now. So much better than 7 and 8.1

Agreed.

Ebo · Nov 12, 2015

Dang, thats why my p*rn is over so fast today ?

bonehead123 · Nov 12, 2015

Ebo said:
Dang, thats why my p*rn is over so fast today ?

That's called "quickie v1.2.50000.4", a new "feature" ms decided to implement without telling you... hehehehe

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