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tiffy:
Have never ventured beyond Windows 8.1 to date running on my desktop PC, always found this to be very stable and have been happy with performance.

Have finally got around to replacing my very old Acer laptop, still running Win XP with a new Acer model, reasonable spec., quad core Pentium CPU, 8 Mb. memory & 2 Tb. hard disk, running Win 10 Home.
Yes, initial Windows updates took a very long time, hours, I can accept this on a PC which has likely been sitting on a shelf for months since manufacture, I note that there are lots of threads on controlling Win 10 updates which I will read for future reference.

With all updates completed, I just can't believe how long it is taking to start up and shut down the PC, 3 to 4 minutes, opening any application is also very slow, my very old Acer XP laptop is faster on all counts !
Norton AV S/W is pre-loaded, could this be a big slow down issue ?
I intend to remove this as I am a long term subscriber to Bit Defender and have a spare licence available, don't want to install this just yet as I am verging on returning the laptop.

I don't think I have a hardware issue with the PC, is it likely I have a software issue or is this as good as it gets with Windows 10, if so, it's back to the supplier (Argos) for a refund ?

tubaman:
This is certainly not normal behaviour with Win10. :no:
I have it installed on a few machines, including a cheap old Celeron based laptop with only 3GB RAM, and that still starts up in under a minute.
Are you sure it has fully finished configuring everything as that can take a good while?
Have you fired-up Task Manager to see what's using all of the resource?
I haven't used Norton as I'm a Kaspersky fan, so can't comment on that.
 :)

tiffy:
@tubaman

As a Windows 10 "virgin" don't really know what to expect, I avoided the free upgrade by MS when 10 was being rolled out as always suspicious of bug ridden early releases, not uncommon to MS..

Yes, I'am fairly confident that initial configuration and Win updates completed, went on for close to 4 hours last night, could not belive that it took so long.

Have not got to the Task Manager stage yet, will have to learn how to drive the system first, hopefully it's not that much different to Win 8.1 which I have always run in old, Win 7 style desktop mode.
Quite busy at present on another project so not much time to mess around until the weekend.

Certainly not a good start with the Win 10 experience, hopefully will improve, if not the laptop is back to supplier within the return period.

Many thanks for your comments and suggestions.

tiffy:
Given up on the new Acer laptop (Win 10), there's got to be a software/hardware issue, nothing can be that slow, also getting a lot of "not responding" now on virtually anything I try to open, my 10 year old Acer Celeron M laptop with very little memory & running Win XP is a flying machine by comparison.
At 2 days old, it's off back to Argos in the morning for a refund, they are usually very good, no questions asked.

Accepting that I have not had a very good introduction to Win 10 on a very suspect PC, still don't like the look of it, far too much bloat, think I will be sticking with Win 8.1 to the bitter end !

tubaman:
I would give Win 10 a bit more of a chance if you can - it really is pretty good once you are used to it.
I agree that 8.1 was an ok OS (and much better than 8.0) but I certainly don't regret upgrading to 10.
There's clearly an issue with that Acer laptop though as it shouldn't be performing like that.
 :)

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