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Originally Posted by cerendir
Ever since I upgraded my laptop (a modest ASUS X401U, FTR) to Win 10 last year it's been nigh unusable. It spends all its time updating itself and rebooting when I'm not looking even if I have stuff open and just close the lid to put it to sleep. Next morning I'm logged out again and upon logging in Windows informs me that it has restarted after having installed updates. The hdd is grinding almost constantly, like it's... I dunno? Very busy doing SOMETHING. I have opted out of all things optional and disabled all the telemetry stuff with Spybot Anti-Beacon. Yet it keeps doing shit that I haven't greenlighted and it feels like this isn't my computer anymore, it's part of some kind of Microsoft botnet. I wasn't crazy about Win 8 but at least it worked on that particular machine.
Funnily... just for the sake of experimentation I upgraded my daughters Win 7 Home computer to Win 10 as well a few months ago and this is a completely different story. I have not noticed the intrusive updating/rebooting thing on that machine at all. Nor the constant grinding of hard drives. TBH her almost decade-old dual core Dell machine flies with Win 10 on it. It's really, really snappy and has worked problem free ever since the upgrade.
This makes me wonder if the ASUS lappy is simply a very poor hardware fit for Windows 10. Maybe the W10 ASUS drivers are shit or something like that? Even if the ASUS is a budget lappy, I honestly thought it would outperform a 2007 stationary machine with an OS that is allegedly resource frugal (though maybe not by a great margin).
My DAW still has Win 7 on it. It's tempting to give Win 10 a shot given how great it works on the kid's computer. But clearly there's no guarantee it will perform well at all.
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Is this ASUS X401U a machine that you use irregularly? -if so constant updates inevitable.
Is your Daughters machine one that is booted up every day?
I would not do a clean install on the DAW machine. Instead I would back up the drive image and install it as an upgrade. The clean install concept is mostly outdated now, it may help in isolated cases. Microsoft do not recommend it over updating, it's just another option. You'll have a lot less hassle if you just update, with all the plugin license nonsense. By the time you reinstall all your programs and Windows is up to date performance gains of a fresh install will be gone. This provided your hard drive wasn't nearly full, or your machine has a virus etc.
Part of my decision to go with Win10 and stay with it is the sheer number of cumulative updates. The longer you leave it the more you have to do. I have terribly slow broadband, not fun.
If you trial the update rather than fresh install it is silly easy to revert to Win7.