Slower Performance after Windows 10 Anniversary Update - Hardware & Software

After downloading it Chrome stutters like all hell, my RAM usage is very large, and I get a good bit or stuttering in games after a while. Is their any reason to this? I'm getting really sick of it.

Try disabling windows defender. It def. helped for me.

Same issue here. Extremely high System memory usage. What's a good alternative to defender?

Common sense. JK, but i'd recommend either Malwarebytes or NOD32.

Bitdefender free is very light on features but stays pretty much out of your way and is very light resource wise if thats what you want

Well surprisingly a Windows Update fixed my issue completely. I just decided to check windows update since I haven't had a notification yet and lo and behold there was one. Installed it and now RAM usage is back to what it used to be.

[QUOTE={TFS} Rock Su;50941167]Common sense. JK, but i'd recommend either Malwarebytes or NOD32.[/QUOTE] Malwarebytes is not an antivirus. It's a great program used to supplement an antivirus program. [editline]24th August 2016[/editline] I highly recommend either Avira free or Avast free. Both beat Windows Defender in protection tests and performance tests; in other words, you're getting better protection for less resources no matter which you choose. Avira in particular appears to be the best free antivirus bar none now in terms of performance and protection, though you may find its ads to be annoying so you may wish to use Avast for gaming mode. (These ads don't bother me in the slightest for what it's worth.) Sources: [url]http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/avc_per_201604_en.pdf[/url] [url]http://www.av-comparatives.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/avc_factsheet2016_07.pdf[/url] [url]https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/april-2016/avast-free-antivirus-2016-161413/[/url] [url]https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/home-windows/windows-10/april-2016/avira-antivirus-pro-2016-161480/[/url] (You'll note that these sites test the pro versions, though the antivirus engine is exactly the same for free vs pro and pro versions basically only get you gimmicks like realtime support or special browser plugins or VPNs and shit, which will have no impact on actual final protection or performance scores.)

I'd like to say that caching has been made more aggressive. When needed the applications will get the room they need.

[QUOTE=Vexua;50941908]Well surprisingly a Windows Update fixed my issue completely. [/QUOTE] Yep you guys got an update for the AU update recently. I am still living on windows xp/7 logic so I will be staying on TH2 for now if it ain't broke, and I want to see how long will microsoft support this version heh. @SGTNAPALM Avast is amazing, I usually do a quick scan and it can really find the real culprit but I uninstall it after since its pretty annoying not gonna lie.

I've found that completely turning off location features netted me a significant performance boost.

[QUOTE=Shaun555;50951739]I've found that completely turning off location features netted me a significant performance boost.[/QUOTE] see, that only makes sense if something is actually polling for your location in the background on a regular basis of course, i've noticed the location icon popping up regularly, so windows might just be doing that because botnets

I also recently disabled Superfetch which cut down ram usage even more.

[QUOTE=Vexua;50957772]I also recently disabled Superfetch which cut down ram usage even more.[/QUOTE] Disabling Superfetch is very counterproductive and it will only degrade your system performance. Superfetch loads up your free (otherwise wasted) memory with cached data that you recently used, so the CPU will have the data ready as soon as it needs it again without needing to fetch it from the disk every single time. If a program requires more memory, some of the cached data are quickly freed for the program to use. Free memory = wasted memory. Don't ever disable superfetch.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50982634]Disabling Superfetch is very counterproductive and it will only degrade your system performance. Superfetch loads up your free (otherwise wasted) memory with cached data that you recently used, so the CPU will have the data ready as soon as it needs it again without needing to fetch it from the disk every single time. If a program requires more memory, some of the cached data are quickly freed for the program to use. Free memory = wasted memory. Don't ever disable superfetch.[/QUOTE] Yeah I learned a day after when it got worse. lol I have no idea what caused my issue in the first place but it seems gone now.

[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50982634]Disabling Superfetch is very counterproductive and it will only degrade your system performance. Superfetch loads up your free (otherwise wasted) memory with cached data that you recently used, so the CPU will have the data ready as soon as it needs it again without needing to fetch it from the disk every single time. If a program requires more memory, some of the cached data are quickly freed for the program to use. Free memory = wasted memory. Don't ever disable superfetch.[/QUOTE] Except the neverending Windows bug of superfetch not properly working and fucking up your disk usage. I've had it bring everything to a crawl on a high end SSD.