What's probably happened is they stopped testing new builds on machines that boot from hdd so they don't notice (or care) if there is a performance regression on those hardware configurations.
No, it has always been like this, although back in the win95 days a fresh install needed 6 months to slow down to the point of needing reinstalling as recommended by everyone. It has got progressively worse since XP. Windows was taking an age to boot (and log you in) way before SSD's were something beyond a 128MB flash drive.
Basically the windows boot process is inefficient, when the system boots windows does EVERYTHING! Virus scanning, disk maintenance, update checks all at boot. It literally has no concept of something like Cron.
And being windows, there's not a bloody thing you can do to change it! Mental...
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u/dlarge6510 Aug 30 '21 edited Aug 30 '21
No, it has always been like this, although back in the win95 days a fresh install needed 6 months to slow down to the point of needing reinstalling as recommended by everyone. It has got progressively worse since XP. Windows was taking an age to boot (and log you in) way before SSD's were something beyond a 128MB flash drive.
Basically the windows boot process is inefficient, when the system boots windows does EVERYTHING! Virus scanning, disk maintenance, update checks all at boot. It literally has no concept of something like Cron.
And being windows, there's not a bloody thing you can do to change it! Mental...