There are many things that cause this including Windows updates, a dirty internet cache needing clearing, a number of background tasks that run on schedule and need to finish up, etc.Okay, it's 7:29 AM. When I opened the route in Surveyor 2.0, it was very choppy. Setting the priority to "high" in Task Manager made it less choppy, but it's still choppy. There must be something else causing it. I don't know what because I just started the computer, so there shouldn't be anything else running.
Go to the task manager and click on start-up items. In Windows 11 it's a button located on the left that looks like a meter, while in Windows 10 it's an easier to find tab.
Look for unnecessary things running at startup such as your browser, chat applications, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and Spotify. All of these things can run when you want to use them rather than running on startup which uses resources and bogs down the computer.
What you want are drivers for your soundcard, antivirus, any required links such as Phone Link if you use that including Mobile Devices.
When I start up my computer in the morning, I always check for Windows updates first before running any programs. This ensures that they are out of the way and not impacting the performance and what I am doing. Sometimes, I'm not lucky but most of the time this isn't a problem.
In addition to regular Windows updates, I keep other programs and drivers up-to-date as needed. This requires a manual check and avoids automatic checks if they do that.
One of my manual checks is done using a PowerShell terminal with admin rights aka terminal (admin), and then running winget.
At the prompt, type in:
winget update and press enter.
This will list anything that needs updating.
Then type in:
winget update followed by the id (name of update) using the exact spelling in the update.
Code:
PS C:\Users\jcitr> winget update
Name Id Version Available Source
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Mozilla Firefox (x64 en-US) Mozilla.Firefox 129.0 129.0.1 winget
Microsoft Edge Microsoft.Edge 127.0.2651.98 127.0.2651.105 winget
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime Microsoft.EdgeWebView2Runtime 127.0.2651.98 127.0.2651.105 winget
AOMEI Partition Assistant 10.4.0 AOMEI.PartitionAssistant 10.4.0 10.4.1 winget
Discord Discord.Discord 1.0.9155 1.0.9157 wingetThese are the programs I can update manually. You may be asked to agree by pressing Y and a progress bar will run. Sometimes, the actual install wizard will run.
To update Firefox, type in:
winget update Mozilla.Firefox
As I said, there are many other things that can cause this, so try this first and then we can look elsewhere.