Windows 11 Program/Tab Switching Very Laggy

Hi I have a problem that's driving me mad... for some reason I think Windows 11 keeps unloading my Chrome tabs and some programs from memory.

When they behave I can switch tabs and windows instantly as I did before I installed Win 11 when using Win 10 a month ago. However most of the time my tabs and programs do not behave and can take a second or two to load just by using alt-tab or clicking the appropriate program in the taskbar or clicking the tab in Chrome. When I leave programs unminimized they seem to stay in memory and load instantly. If I minimize them or switch to other tabs in Chrome that's when the sluggishness happens. In addition when initially loading programs everything is quite responsive. I'm guessing for some odd reason Windows 11 is unloading programs and tabs from memory.

I'm only at 17 out of 32 GB of memory used. I turned off graphics acceleration out of desperation in Chrome with no benefit. Also I turned Nvidia power management mode to max performance for my 5070Ti GPU with no benefit. And I optimized visual effects for best performance with no benefit. And finally I am using a custom power plan derived from a max performance power plan.

Anybody have any ideas what infectious demon is cursing my computer? I could record a video if that would help.

Hello @riverofwind and welcome to Eleven Forum.


Did you Clean Install Win 11, or did you do an In-Place Upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11?
Or did you use Windows Update to move to Win 11?

You may want to open Terminal (Admin) and run this command: sfc /scannow <---- Window's System File Checker
See if that improves things.

Another option is to do an In-Place upgrade (repair install).
It will fix any Windows problems you may have. You won't lose any programs or files.






Here's some things that you may find useful...

@Ghot Thx already did sfc scan and this is a clean install of Windows 11.

riverofwind said:

@Ghot Thx already did sfc scan and this is a clean install of Windows 11.

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Well, let us know if that helps improve things.

@Ghot I did the sfc a couple weeks ago and it didn't help

In Terminal (Admin) run this... Dism.exe /online /Cleanup-Image /StartComponentCleanup

And if you're using any tweaking programs, you should let us know.

@Ghot Already did that prior to sfc

riverofwind said:

@Ghot Already did that prior to sfc

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Try a Clean Boot, and if the problems go away, add things back in till you find the culprit.



If the problems remain, even after a Clean boot, then I would try the In-Place upgrade.
That cures many Windows problems.

@Ghot Sorry for the delay. Keyscrambler was slowing down things so I quit it and start it back up when I need to enter a sensitive password. This fixed half of the problem. I think the rest of the malfunctions are due to the video card drivers. Ever since I got my 5070 Ti that's when Windows graphical components would act laggy, like when I start Chrome it loads the program immediately then takes a half second or so to render google search page. And when I open a Chrome window that's minimized the same thing happens. I can live with it for now. And when I play games they are perfectly responsive.

@Ghot Hi a little (or long) while later I found the problem. I just updated my X570 Aorus Ultra mobo BIOS to F38 from F35. Everything is normal now. Thanks for the help!