[ToFab123]

Your installation of Windows is that by any chance the installation that came with computer? Or is it a Windows that you have upgraded from a previous version (and perhaps that was upgraded from yet another previous version)?

I never have these slow downs that I read others have. I always do a clean install from a USB stick (including deleting recovery partitions). I do this like once a year or 1 1/2 years when something is being released that is either a new version or what is we used to call a service packs.

Windows sucks at upgrading. There is always something strange going on after upgrading. Things that not happens after a clean install.

If it is looong time since you have performed a clean install, I recommend you to consider doing that.

[GrayShade]

I installed last year when I got the computer and drive, and it's still pretty clean since I don't really use Windows these days. Or was clean until I upgraded to 11 last week.

But this has always been my experience. I remember reinstalling Windows 7 and waiting hours for Windows Update to finish. Even checking for updates could take 20 minutes.

[ToFab123]

yeah, endless hours spend waiting for Windows Update. It is not so bad anymore.

The only thing I can think about comparing your setup to mine is that I rarely turns off my computer. If you only use your very infrequent and turn it off when not used. I wonder if Windows is doing all kinds of maintenance jobs every time you start your computer since it is off most of the time, and then when you manually hit windows update, it gets a bit busy working out the correct state of your computer

Those jobs are on my computer distributed over days / weeks but wit you they run every time you turn on windows since it couldn't run them at their scheduled frequency since the computer was off.

I am just speculating, but maybe try to turn on windows once in a while and leave it over night, to test if this improves things.