Win10 LTSC IoT lag issues. How to resolve?

[NotHereToPlayGames]

Same EXACT hardware!  FIRST LOAD AFTER STARTUP on LTSC 2021:

Sure, that FIRST LOAD "takes longer", but who complains about a 1-second load time when previous versions of Win10 took FORTY SECONDS ???

It all boils down to how NEWER versions of Windows allocate large .dll's into RAM.

DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME on anything older than 21H2.

Trust me, I get it, all we get around here is "Long Live XP" and "Long Live 7" and "Long Live Vista" - don't be fooled!

"Fairly recent" versions of Win10, you don't need to be "cutting edge", really are far superior.  But yeah, it takes some debloating.  BUT SO DOES XP, 7, AND VISTA!

[Tripredacus]

I am curious about this "upgrade" mentioned, as I don't believe that IoT Enterprise LTSC has any upgrade path. It *is* true that it is possible, as I had taken about 3 months to figure out how to upgrade from Win7 to it but it is NOT designed to do that.
1809 version is the oldest I would use. I have that on my gaming computer and my old work notebook. I use 21H2 on my dev notebook.

I previously had lag issues similar to what was mentioned on my gaming computer at various times but only when write operations were occuring, such as when a background process was running an update, Windows Update or Steam, etc. The culprit ended up being the SSD I was using having a write speed bottleneck. When I did my upgrade, I was using a Crucial SSD and upgraded on that, but then cloned it to a Sandisk SSD. The issue occured on the SanDisk SSD only.

May not be relevant but it took me a lot of tooling around in the OS only to discover the OS wasn't the issue.

[superleiw]

I wouldn't have recommended that upgrade path either and gone with a clean install.

 

Windows 10 build 10586 (th2) is an internal pre-RTM build of Windows 10

[NotHereToPlayGames]

2 hours ago, Tripredacus said:

I am curious about this "upgrade" mentioned, as I don't believe that IoT Enterprise LTSC has any upgrade path.

No clue from me.  I technically never heard of "IoT" until this thread.  I run LTSC (and LTSB, both from work) and it doesn't show "IoT" anywhere.

The "IoT" shows it as in "Notification Mode", something else I've never heard of.  It's just inside a VM for me, just for the sake of this thread.

I'm not going to "activate" it out of fear even attempting to do so would "break" my company-provided activation (which also requires our company VPN).

 

But I guess my thoughts would be this:  if this "IoT" upgrade path is questionable (it probably is, no clue myself), it's probably no different than the "upgrade path" to XP's POSReady 2009.  Something I myself see as ILLEGAL and never ran on any of my XP machines.