Windows seems to insistent on crappifying itself. Even if you have a small set of installed applications, many of them behave poorly. Lots and lots of small paper cuts add up. A few dozen registry entries here, a few files there, seven or eight Explorer right click menu extensions (like eg “Edit with X” instead of just using the normal “Open With”) setup by installers.
The end result is right clicking has noticeable delay in some directories. Boot takes a few seconds longer than it did the first time it was installed. Some applications, even Task Manager inexplicably hang with a white window for a few seconds.
The shell (part of Explorer) no longer displaying anything when searching in the start menu (because it tries to connect to the internet to search bing and that sometimes stops working rendering half the start menu useless).
The “modern” settings app hanging with its blue window and icon for anywhere from seconds to indefinitely.
It’s just a lot of this bullshit that adds up. Reinstalling Windows makes it like it was day one.
The end result is right clicking has noticeable delay in some directories. Boot takes a few seconds longer than it did the first time it was installed. Some applications, even Task Manager inexplicably hang with a white window for a few seconds.
The shell (part of Explorer) no longer displaying anything when searching in the start menu (because it tries to connect to the internet to search bing and that sometimes stops working rendering half the start menu useless).
The “modern” settings app hanging with its blue window and icon for anywhere from seconds to indefinitely.
It’s just a lot of this bullshit that adds up. Reinstalling Windows makes it like it was day one.