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Why is Windows so slow?

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337 points kristianp | 1 comments | 19 Dec 11 06:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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johnx123-up ◴[19 Dec 11 07:20 UTC] No.3368820[source]▶
FWIW, try disabling your AV
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1. qdog ◴[19 Dec 11 07:33 UTC] No.3368852[source]▶
This.

And anything else you can find that registers with the kernel for file system calls. Logging mechanisms, etc. Anything the kernel has to talk to about file i/o is going to slow it down.