Fast Windows 10 Question!

[fatshady]

Hi,

 

I've just installed Windows 10 and so far so good - it's kinda fine. But I've got a problem. I noticed that the "please wait" circle right next to the cursor appears quite often even when I'm doing nothing! It means it's doing something in the background without me knowing it. I checked it and it automatically installs or tries to install drivers, programs and those annoying apps that I don't need at all.

 

How do I stop Windows 10 from automatically installing stuff? I like to do it on my own...manually.

[Vercii]

There should be a service that you can turn off but I'm not sure what it's exactly called. 

[Minsekt]

you cant deny any specific updates in windows 10. its either all updates or none. (deactivating updates completely)

thats the one and only thing i hate about windows 10

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

28 minutes ago, fatshady said:

Hi,

 

I've just installed Windows 10 and so far so good - it's kinda fine. But I've got a problem. I noticed that the "please wait" circle right next to the cursor appears quite often even when I'm doing nothing! It means it's doing something in the background without me knowing it. I checked it and it automatically installs or tries to install drivers, programs and those annoying apps that I don't need at all.

 

How do I stop Windows 10 from automatically installing stuff? I like to do it on my own...manually.

As said above this is the one problem with 10, But as long as you have a decent computer with a good internet conection it souldn't affect performance too much

 

[GoodBytes]

As you recently upgraded to Windows 10, Windows does a lot of things on the back.

 -> Windows Update

 -> Indexing for fast search. (The more data you have the more time it takes)

 -> Update Apps

 -> Defrag (if you have an HDD)

 -> TRIM (if you have an SSD)

 -> Executes its maintenance cycle

 -> Caches the start menu

and I won't be surprised if I missed 1-2 smaller things

 

Let it do all these things. Some of them does it only when your system is idle.

Some of these can be execute manually. Like Windows Update, Updates of Apps, maintenance cycle, and Defrag/TRIM.

 

Since about everything is an App in Windows 10, even Windows calculator, I would let Windows Apps update.

[Thony]

As mentioned u can turn it off in the settings. For turning off more stuff i used this: 

 

[fatshady]

3 hours ago, A Guy Eating Cereal said:

As said above this is the one problem with 10, But as long as you have a decent computer with a good internet conection it souldn't affect performance too much

 

 

I have a pretty strong PC:

 

Windows 10 Pro (OS)

Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 7 (MOBO)

i5-4790k @ 4.8ghz stable (CPU)

32gb corsair vengance pro 2400mhz (RAM)

Samsung 850 Pro 256GB (SSD - primary boot drive)

Seagate 1TB (SSHD - secondary storage device)

EVGA SuperNova (P2) 850W (PSU)

Single MSI 980 TI (GPU)

Asus Xonar Essence Stx II (Sound Card)

Genius SW-HF 5200 Wooden Speakers 5.1 (Home Cinema Audio)

SanDisk Extreme Flash Drive 64GB (PenDrive 1)

HyperX Fury 3.0 16GB (PenDrive 2)

LG 24MP55 (IPS full HD1080p 24 inch - monitor - it sucks!)

[A Guy Eating Cereal]

5 hours ago, fatshady said:

 

I have a pretty strong PC:

 

Windows 10 Pro (OS)

Gigabyte Z97X Gaming 7 (MOBO)

i5-4790k @ 4.8ghz stable (CPU)

32gb corsair vengance pro 2400mhz (RAM)

Samsung 850 Pro 256GB (SSD - primary boot drive)

Seagate 1TB (SSHD - secondary storage device)

EVGA SuperNova (P2) 850W (PSU)

Single MSI 980 TI (GPU)

Asus Xonar Essence Stx II (Sound Card)

Genius SW-HF 5200 Wooden Speakers 5.1 (Home Cinema Audio)

SanDisk Extreme Flash Drive 64GB (PenDrive 1)

HyperX Fury 3.0 16GB (PenDrive 2)

LG 24MP55 (IPS full HD1080p 24 inch - monitor - it sucks!)

Aha better than mine!!! I get the loading "sign" for about 20 seconds then it dissapears, however when i first installed it appeared a lot as it updated everything....

 

[alex_read]

Have you just installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 (a clean install) & no other programs on top of it here?