[Hardware] It doesn't matter if your PC is top of the range: Windows will always be slow

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Computers are getting faster, applications work more easily for us, however, when it comes to interacting with Windows it seems that it doesn't matter what the guts of our PC are, it always seems to go at the same pace. Is it something exclusive to the Redmond operating system? Is it a bad optimization in terms of hardware or is there a technical reason behind it? We explain it to you.

The normal thing, and by simple logic, is to think that as we have more computational power in a computer, the programs consume fewer and fewer resources. However, we often find that this is not the case and that the lack of optimization prevails over other things. Is it about programmers' laziness or failing that there are a series of decisions at a technical level or unavoidable circumstances that lead to it?

Windows always consumes the same resources as a PC
We must start from the fact that in the current operating systems it is this same and not the applications, which is in charge of managing the different processes and, therefore, they not only decide where they are executed and in what order, but also in which conditions that do so and this is where we enter into two different ways of using hardware resources, both by the system itself and by the applications.

However, there is one that is a nightmare in terms of performance and that turns certain processes into true vampires of the power of our computer, despite the fact that they do not really require that much power to function and that is that a fixed percentage of the capacity is assigned to them. processing. Regardless of whether we have a powerful high-end computer or a modest MiniPC. For example, Windows 11 comes standard with Virtualization Based Security, a feature that provides rather little for home users, but is capable of consuming 5% performance, regardless of whether you're running an application on a Celeron or a Celeron. Xeon, with the difference in power that this implies.

 

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