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I have installed a desktop computer with the technical preview of Windows 10. It is running deadly slow that I have to remove it. But before I am able to do so, I think I need to have it responding to me in a reasonable amount of time first. I don't know if there is anything to improve the physical ability, as my computer has got 8GB RAM already.

Any suggestions?

Tom K. C. Chiu
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    It is a Technical Preview, it is almost by definition buggy. Of course you can try standard approach to speeding up a computer by adding more RAM, replacing HDD with SSD. But i would not expect much at this stage. Having said this, my installation of TP in VMWare runs fairly fast and smooth. And i DO like the new "Start" menu. – ruslaniv Oct 08 '14 at 04:56
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    The Win10 preview should not be any slower than WIn8/Win8.1 on the same hardware. There's the possibility that you have a buggy driver (most likely with a technical preview) causing issues. – Bob Oct 08 '14 at 05:25
  • How can I check which part is it likely to be causing the problem? I was wondering if it was because there are too many disk access. – Tom K. C. Chiu Oct 08 '14 at 06:45
  • Secret revealed. After leaving the computer alone for a whole night and a morning, I returned from lunch and managed to restart the computer. It was because the computer was downloading updates that it installed after I restarted. Get finger crossed. – Tom K. C. Chiu Oct 08 '14 at 06:51
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    Everything looks fine now. It was an update called KB3001512. See this:

    https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/3001512

     – Tom K. C. Chiu Oct 08 '14 at 07:22
  • And later it turns out that heaps and heaps of updating are loading the days after I have the installation. It takes at least a week, I think, for the system to become stable. – Tom K. C. Chiu Oct 14 '14 at 10:17

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If you have enough RAM, go and get a SSD. Nothing else will improve the computers speed more. (regardless of the computers OS)

Martin Seitl
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    There's any number of possible non-I/O issues causing slowdowns. Without identifying the bottleneck first, this is answer is purely guessing, and poorly at that. – Bob Oct 13 '14 at 03:40
  • You are right in that manner - but that was an answer to "I don't know if there is anything to improve the physical ability, as my computer has got 8GB RAM already.". – Martin Seitl Oct 13 '14 at 08:10