Nah, I disable Windows Defender when running another anti-malware program, which I much prefer to do because Defender uses way too many system resources in when in 'realtime' mode.  Malwarebytes uses far less system resources and is my current choice of anti-malware live scanner.

BTW, MS says that when when Windows Defender detects another anti-malware program it will disable itself.  That is not necessarily true.  I had to manually disable Windows Defender when I installed and activated Malwarebytes, and it's not the first time I've had to do that.   I had to do it with Avast and others, so it is always a good idea to check that Defender is not running as well.... otherwise things will get sluggish.

Three hours downloading

Two hours installing

One hour finding out the update dorked the computer

Two hours refreshing to factory state

Two hours setting it back up

Your weekend

Priceless.

Delete the IE Internet files whether you use it or not.

After the refresh you could try this.

Yeah, that's too often the way with Win 10.... forced updates that bork a machine that was running okay.  I recently got a borked machine from an update, but I just did a system restore to rectify the problem.  However, I possibly could have avoided it if I hadn't unticked 'Metered Connection' in Network settings.  Anyway, I have since hidden that update and hopefully MS fixes the issues before the next one.

kona0197 if you receive this transmission please tell us

if you are having any luck speeding up your computer?   

I read an article on this the other day, it referenced HP PC's and Laptops specifically in which a current Windows Update is causing slow performance, crashes and even making them shut down after a while. The recommended solution was to do a system restore.

Windows 7 ...

Definitely!

Best way to try to figure out what might be slowing startup is looking at the Windows Event log (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Windows Logs -> System) right after a reboot.

A lot of stuff is happening so you will have to scroll down until you see events coming from Kernel-General/Kernel-Power, those usually mark the beginning of the startup process.

Pay attention to the time elapsed between each event from then on - if the time interval is unusually long (as in several seconds) then you've basically identified what is stalling startup (it's the event that takes too long to complete).

This will usually be a Service (in my system, for instance, the Razer Synapse service is well known to cause huge delays, crappy software). Under Windows 10 I don't know, but on 7 the symptoms are a bit different from what you describe though: you are able to type in a password but then you are left staring at a black screen for several seconds until the desktop appears.

This happens because all services must be started before Windows can show you the desktop. If one of them stalls, Windows will be forced to wait for a timeout from the service (usually 30 seconds) before it can proceed to start the next one, etc...

The red pill.

Windows 8 was the turning point toward what we have today.

I have been observing Microsoft windows updates for quite some time.

I have observed not updating windows for quite some time.

This is the outcome from updating I have observed.

1 sabotage of the operating system itself.

2 sabotage of non Microsoft software like browsers etc.

3 new ad features which I believe actually make the device less secure.

4 a false sense of security that some people can enjoy.

Computer bugs are ripe for plausible deniability,

some might be accidental and some might be deliberate.

I leave it up to you to decide if these outcomes are deliberate

because you can believe what ever you want to believe.  

Want to know what IS deliberate? Windows 10 *deliberately* delays the startup of 3rd party applications after a reboot by several seconds. Makes Windows appear to boot faster at the cost of other applications looking MUCH slower.

I had to come up with a devious work-around for this, as Winstep software features the type of applications you REALLY want to start at the same time as the Windows desktop.

With all of the bugs , glitches, work arounds , fixes , and sluggish behavior of Windows 10 , it makes no sense to me as to why people continue to try to carry that atrocious operating system across the finish line. It truely is a text-book demonstration of insanity to continue to do so. Do you know what I like most about Windows 10 ?  The fact that it's NOT installed on my computer.

-- Ace --

Ditto.... certainly not on my 'serious' computer that is actually intended to 'do stuff'.

The other 5 machines....they're fine.... they don't HAVE TO 'do stuff'....

 I'd like to be able to say that, but on this machine, my Hp 2-in-1, it was forced down my throat during Scheduled Maintenance during the middle of the night.  I went to bed happily with Win 8 and woke up grumpily to find I was force fed Win 10 while I was asleep.  The worst thing about it was that I couldn't roll back to Win 8 because all the backup files were deleted during 10's installation.  Now MS will say that they don't do this, but I'll swear on my left and right nut that they did.

As for my 2nd big Beastie, which currently is sitting idle due to necessary changes, I put Win 10 on that of my own volition... or should I say that I pre-empted MS's doing it and somehow not leaving me with a roll-back option.  I don't like Win 10 and I will set up both of my main machines with Win 8 when both are operational again using the OS discs.

For those who question my preference of Win 8 over 7, well I use Start8 with Windowblinds and find it no different to Win 7 to use.  Besides, I no longer have installation media for Win 7, while I now have 2 OS discs for Win 8.

To those that are curious I have not found a solution to speeding it up, it still lags between boot up and password screen and even more when bringing up the desktop. However since it's only a few extra seconds I've learned to just bear with it. Here in a week or so I'm going to stuff another 4 GB down it's throat, so if having 8 GB installed will speed it up since DDR3 is getting cheaper. I did roll back to version 1709, a few tings are faster. If the RAM upgrade fails to deliver I might just buy a used Mac for cheap or install Linux. 

I have a laptop with a slow CPU it peeks at 1.98 GHz,

but it has a solid state drive.

It boots much faster than any computer I have owned even a vaio that peeked at 3 GHz.

It also runs cool with no fan.