freedonX Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 i5 8th gen with 8GB memory with 256 NVE + 128 microSD. Windows 10 to latest update. Just reformat win10 and I feel it's extremely slow. For example, I installed couple of standard programs like Foxit (for PDF) , Faststine (image viewer), media player classic (media player), Firefox (duh), etc. Trying to open a file (pdf, jpg, mpg, html) file, I got the usual 'what program do you want to open the file with'? I select other programs and I go to my Program Files folder and I still can not see the program I just installed. It took like 3min to finally appear. We're talking an NVE and I wasn't loading anything else. Even browsing Windows explorer was slow! Heck it got stuck on 1 tab of Google Chrome. Any thoughts? My surface was slow pre format. But a fresh format this slow?? Somethng ain't right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted June 16, 2022 Moderator Share Posted June 16, 2022 Check your memory with Memtest. I think your RAM is being eaten up. Check all the background apps, see if one is using too many resources. Go to System Manager (or whatever it's called) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedonX Posted June 17, 2022 Author Share Posted June 17, 2022 On 16/06/2022 at 00:26, Mindovermaster said: Check your memory with Memtest. I think your RAM is being eaten up. Check all the background apps, see if one is using too many resources. Go to System Manager (or whatever it's called) Anything specific I should be looking for? Ran 5 loops and they all finished with no errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Supervisor Posted June 18, 2022 Supervisor Share Posted June 18, 2022 Hello, Did you install Windows using Microsoft's recovery image that is specifically for the Surface, available from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface-recovery-image for download? If not, you should try wiping the drive and installing that, instead. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Dick Montage 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedonX Posted June 20, 2022 Author Share Posted June 20, 2022 On 18/06/2022 at 04:48, goretsky said: Hello, Did you install Windows using Microsoft's recovery image that is specifically for the Surface, available from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/surface-recovery-image for download? If not, you should try wiping the drive and installing that, instead. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Just tried it out, will reply if I see any good/bad results. I don't use it that much anymore goretsky 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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