Windows 11 users with the latest feature/bug fix updates are complaining about storage performance. For those affected, the impact seems very severe, with some saying transfer performance is halved, while others say the OS and games take longer to load. Thankfully, a victim of this bug said that rolling back the update brought back his previous storage performance. Additionally, in a quick test using the same updates as Windows 11, we were unable to reproduce this performance issue.
of Moments 2 Update for Windows 11 arrived last week as a Patch Tuesday release, after weeks of being tracked by the Windows Experience blog. Microsoft Engineering is reddit thread A thread to monitor and respond to feedback, but many issues have been raised repeatedly and the thread doesn’t seem like a fun place. Affects storage performance.
At this early stage of the complaint/feedback loop, we are unsure of the configuration affected, the scale of this issue, or what exactly is going on. However, this issue seems to most commonly affect users of NVMe SSD storage.
Considering some examples from the Reddit thread, neowin today. Mesp21 was one of the first companies to complain about the Moment 2 update, claiming that after the update his SSD speed went from 7,000 MB/s to 3,000 MB/s. . Windows Update rollback restored previous performance.
Another user, MrBigDog99, was clear enough to save before and after screenshots of the CrystalDiskMark storage benchmark tool. Here we can see that disk writes are the most severely affected, but reads are also not doing well.
Above is a screen showing severe storage performance impact observed by MrBigDog99 and shared on Reddit. Below shows that our system using his NVMe SSD with similar specs was not affected by the Moment 2 Update (KB5023706).
Interestingly, Microsoft states that they fixed file copy slowness in KB5023706. (opens in new tab) Update, but updates are having the opposite effect on these Reddit users. Sadly, it seems that sometimes the software maker fixes one problem for her, causing another. Windows 11 was particularly disappointing when it came to storage performance and related issues.
If your Windows 11 installation was slowed down by the latest updates and you can’t wait for Microsoft’s next patch to fix it (perhaps), you can quickly roll it back by following these steps.
- Right click the start button and open settings
- near bottom left, Click on the Windows Update section
- Click update history
- [アップデートのアンインストール]Scroll down to section and Click.
- Select KB5023706,[アンインストール]before confirming the action with the button.
Last month, I wrote a guide on how to optimize SSD performance in Windows 10 or 11. We also recently informed our readers about disabling VBS to speed up Windows 10 or 11 by up to 15%.
