It seems to be like Microsoft may need one other Home windows 11 replace fail on its arms, with stories that some customers are experiencing longer PC boot instances after putting in the most recent patch.

As Neowin stories (opens in new tab), a rising thread on Reddit (opens in new tab) has quite a few customers complaining that since putting in Microsoft’s cumulative replace, which was launched on March 14, the pace of their SSDs (stable state drives) has dropped dramatically.

In a single submit (which you’ll see under), a consumer says their SSD pace dropped from 7,000MB/s to three,000MB/s, and even to as little as 1,000MB/s. Apparently, uninstalling the replace returned the SSD pace to 7,000MB/s.

Remark from r/Home windows11

The submit has a rising variety of upvotes, with replies suggesting that different individuals are experiencing comparable points.

Remark from r/Home windows11

Some customers additionally shared screenshots of drive-speed benchmark instruments, corresponding to CrystalDiskMark, which present the drop in pace.

From studying the posts, it seems to be like this bug is simply affecting SSDs, not conventional onerous drives, and the SSDs that look like affected are super-fast NVMe drives. Slower SATA SSDs might not be impacted; or if they’re, the drop in speeds may not be as noticeable.

Knock-on results

Having a once-fast SSD decelerate is extraordinarily annoying, and customers have additionally been complaining about how their PCs have been performing noticeably worse after putting in the most recent replace.

One of many greatest complaints has been that Home windows 11 now takes longer in addition because the replace. Gradual boot instances was once one of many greatest annoyances of utilizing a PC, so it’s troubling to see an replace reintroduce the problem.

If the most recent replace is certainly slowing down SSD speeds, then it is smart that if Home windows 11 is put in on an affected SSD it is going to load extra slowly. Elsewhere on Reddit, a consumer complained that video games put in on an SSD at the moment are slower to load.

Whereas we’re undecided how many individuals are affected by this concern, it does seem to be a rising variety of individuals are complaining about it on-line. If Microsoft has as soon as once more pushed out a Home windows 11 replace that negatively impacts the efficiency of PCs, then that’s fairly embarrassing for the corporate.

The excellent news is that uninstalling the replace appears to take away the problem, so in case your PC has began performing poorly after you have put in the most recent replace, attempt uninstalling it. Hopefully Microsoft will rapidly acknowledge the problem, and launch a repair that may permit customers to put in the replace with out worrying that it’s going to hobble SSD efficiency.

uninstall Home windows 11 (KB5023706) replace

To uninstall the replace, open the Begin menu, and kind in ‘Home windows Replace Settings’. From there, click on ‘Home windows Replace’ then ‘View Replace Historical past’.

Subsequent, click on ‘Uninstall Replace’, choose KB5023706, then click on ‘Uninstall’. Hopefully it will repair the issue; nonetheless, it’s possible you’ll discover that different issues, which the KB5023706 replace mounted, will reappear.