My guess is it's after a particular windows 10 update that things got slower. Maybe we can pinpoint which one? Here's a lest of them:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4058258
The other topics on similar performance issues seemed to stem from late December. Anyways, here's a list of users that posted their win10 build version and said they were/were not affected. I appended the date of the update, or date range when the exact build wasn't specified.
For anyone who wants to find the exact build of your windows 10, open up notepad and click on help->about.
Affected:
dop2000
16299 (10/17/17 - 1/31/18, but i assume the latest)
--- also mentioned on another thread that after the 1/3/18 update things felt slower.
BackendFreak
15063.850 (1/3/18)
Unaffected:
R0J0hound
10586.633 (10/11/16)
RetroInsight
15063 (4/5/17 - 1/17/18)
NN81
15063 ..
So far the update in question is sometime after April 2017. Maybe the change log could give some revelation of why things are now slower. At the very least I may get an idea when to stop getting win10 updates.
— NN81
What's the exact build number you're using?
hi, im using the Version 1703 (OS build 15063.726 - 11/14/2017)