> Frankly I'd love an explanation as to why Windows 7 works just fine on a hard drive but Windows 10 staggers around like it's been shot.
Windows 7 had an independent QA team, and Windows 10 did not. I'd guess that some Microsoft developers and testers for 7 had SSDs, but most had spinning disks; but during the 10 development, most developers were using SSDs and neglected to test with spinning hard drives.
It's terrible, and doesn't make sense. When 7 booted, especially if you didn't have a lot of ram, it would thrash the hard drive for a while, but once the update service and windows defender got fully started and calmed down, you'd be good to go. From what I can tell, Windows 10 never stops thrashing the drive, and whatever it's up to ruins performance for anything else you want to do with the drive.
I really need to look into whether there's an ecosystem of customized Win7 builds with ongoing user-created security patches. I'm so weary of hating my operating system.
Windows 7 had an independent QA team, and Windows 10 did not. I'd guess that some Microsoft developers and testers for 7 had SSDs, but most had spinning disks; but during the 10 development, most developers were using SSDs and neglected to test with spinning hard drives.
It's terrible, and doesn't make sense. When 7 booted, especially if you didn't have a lot of ram, it would thrash the hard drive for a while, but once the update service and windows defender got fully started and calmed down, you'd be good to go. From what I can tell, Windows 10 never stops thrashing the drive, and whatever it's up to ruins performance for anything else you want to do with the drive.