Posted on 02/27/2025 4:49:19 PM PST by Angelino97
Several months ago I bought a new laptop, 128 GB RAM, 13th Generation i9 CPU, running Win 11.
Should be faster than my nine-years old laptop, 32 GB RAM, i7 CPU, Win 7.
Two days ago I bought two external HDDs (Western Digital Passports), 6 TB each.
I then copied (drag & drop method) a folder from an old WD passport to the new, larger one. Folder contained over 2,900 MP4 files, 29 subfolders, at about 1.97 TB total.
It took over 8 hours to copy.
Then verified that all the files were copied by clicking Properties on the old and copied folders. My new laptop counted the 2,900+ files on the old WD HDD in a few minutes. But it took over 5 hours to just to COUNT the 2,900+ files in the new HDD.
I thought, maybe it's an indexing issue? Win 11 hasn't indexed the new HDD?
But then I copied the same files onto the second new HDD. It again took over 8 hours to copy. And the counting was again so slow that after a couple of files had been counted, I tried counting the files on my old Win 7 laptop.
I attached the new HDD to the old laptop, clicked Properties, and the files were counted INSTANTLY.
So the problem isn't the new WD HDDs.
Why does it take forever to Win 11 to copy, and even to count, files on a new HDD (but not on the old HDD)?
;-)
if there’s load of file I/O...turn off all the anti-virus crap. It scans each file against a virus DB every time....bring it to a crawl.
I’ve seen “corporate laptops” designed for large SW builds hit this, the IT dept doesn’t understand how many files get hit when building software. A 5m build takes hours.
Because it’s too busy “helping” you.
I got the asus creator proart z890 mb. I’m liking it a lot. I’m kinda confused about the speeds though. I thought thry were supposed to transfer around 120 Gb/s? With thunderbolt 4 @ 40 Gb/s. The link you posted showed only 6000 MB/s. I think there is a difference in MB/S ZND Mb/s (not the smaller b) when it comes to speed or data, but not sure what the difference is. (Math makes my brain ache)
Anyways, pretty soon, external he’s will be faster than internal drives lol. I can back up 100 gb onto an internal nvme 7200 mb/s drive in about 2 1/2 minutes, and onto an external ssd sata drive 560 mb/s around 6 minutes or so. And I’m only getting 1/2 the speed for some reason, not even 1/2, it usually settles out at 3 GB/S transfer, not sure why that is.
Yup. I just buk,t my comp, and decided to go with water cooled, and right nkw it’s fine. But I think summer is gonna really test it. It runs about 50 degrees f right now, ramping up to about 60 depending on what I do, and it’s cold out now- so not sure what summer is gonna bring
First thing I do when installing windows is get rid of edge (but don’t delete it altogether- might mess up windows) and put on Firefox and make it the default.
One thing I thought of, your system sounds like the fast boot option is disabled. 50 minute boot time seems like something is really wrong.
Logged in to Windows? Not that I'm aware of.
I actually turned off the WiFi on my laptop midway, as I thought it might speed things up. It didn't.
Why do new computers even have 2.0 USBs? Isn’t 3.0 backward compatible with 2.0?
Both programs were much quicker in Win 7.
Both laptops, old and new, have SSDs, so that's not the issue.
The Control Panel won't let me uninstall it.
And though I have Firefox as my default browser, every time I boot up my laptop (once a day), after the password screen, I'm often met with MS Edge, telling me something.
Whenever I ask a question in Search that requires an answer from the MS site, Edge opens up.
Win 11 mostly respects that I want Firefox as the default. Not always.
LOL!
That's entirely intentional!
It's to motivate you to migrate to Windows 12 when it comes out!
Regards,
Same here!
What I'd like to know is: How do all these cell phone users print out stuff?
I regularly print out and snail-mail 20-plus-page-long letters to my friends and relatives, maybe including a keepsake or other small present in the envelope - how can one do that with only a cell phone?
Didn't most people in the early 2000s have desktop computers and printers? When they "migrated" to smartphones, didn't they recognize the recklessness of abandoning their printers?
With regards to e-mailing (which I often did in parallel to traditional hardcopy letter-writing), I also noticed a hard drop-off in responses from my friends and relatives around the year 2012.
Could that also be attributed to the ascendancy of cell phones - and the simultaneous foolhardy abandonment of desktop computers?
Didn't people realize how they were handicapping themselves?
None of them has ever "fessed up" and admitted, "Hey, got your lengthy, detail-filled hardcopy letter or e-mail yesterday - but I'll be d*mned if I 'thumb' a reply of comparable length!"
Regards,
Linux mint. Installation is a snap. No driver hunting required, since it does that for you. Super fast and reliable. I moved over to it from Win 10 a few months ago. I have not had a single crash or glitch since. It just works and the interface is nice looking too.
But when MS wishes to communicate with me through their website, Edge pops up.
Apparently, MS won't allow me to make Firefox default for MS communication.
That's entirely intentional!
That's no joke. I read a conspiracy theory that Windows intentionally runs Open Office slowly, so you'll use MS Office instead.
And my shareware video, audio, and photo programs (e.g., MPC-BE and IfranView) also run slow on Windows 11.
I guess MS wants me to use their programs instead. But I stopped when I realized that MS's Media Player was spying on my viewing and listening.
Why is Windows 11 so slow?
Maybe all the spying 11 is doing?
I googled: why is windows 11 slow
https://tinyurl.com/nhe7k3kp
Many many posts with the same complaint.
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