Hi, I recently joined the windows insider program and installed Windows 11. But since then, I am facing a significantly slow virtual desktop switching, compared to windows 10 (4 fingers slide gesture on trackpad). I am on the beta channel, but I have been facing this problem since the very first release of windows 11, when I was on the dev channel. These are my hardware specs : Is there any solution to speed this up ? Thanks in advance.

I fixed mine with turning off the dynamic colors. Just pick a color under personalization preferences and you should be good.

yanismnsr I solved this by making my background a solid color rather than the default image. Hope that helps.

yanismnsr artistro08 Hello Everyone. As of Nov 5 2022, there is no OFFICIAL solution to slow touchpad desktop switching. However, I do have a solution THAT WORKS.1) Set accent colour to manual, as suggested by artistro08 2) Now, what i noticed is, the keyboard shortcut for switching desktops is SO FAST AND SEEMLESS. So I have configured my touchpad settings as below:a) Search "Touchpad settings > Advanced Gestures > Configure four-finger gestures".b) Find "Swipe Left" and from drop down menu, select " Custom Shortcut".c) Click "Start Recording" and click Ctrl + Win + Right Arrow Key.d) Click "Stop Recording".e) Now try and SEE THE SPEED!!!f) For , Swipe Right, again do a similar procedure, but click Ctrl + Win + Left Arrow key.g) DONE !! Enjoy!!. THIS WORKS !!!! Do share if it helps :">

I had the same problem on Windows 11, and I realized that the reason was that I had different Bing wallpapers on different desktops. I fixed this problem by going into Settings >> Personalization >> Background >> Recent images >> right-click on one of the images >> Click "Set for all desktops". After that, the desktop switching was finally back to normal.

for anyone still struggling with this, I found a solution (thanks to ChatGPT woohoo) which isn't as heavy-handed as some of the others here. you can do: right click start menu > system > advanced system settings > performance settings > visual effects > choose "custom" > disable "animate controls and elements inside Windows"

Slow virtual desktop switching on windows 11

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Alexander_Whillas
Copper Contributor
Oct 04, 2021
Yup, same here. Using as Blade 15 Advanced laptop i.e. i7, 32Gb RAM, Intel UHD Graphis + Nvidia RTX 3080 w/ 16GB (but its probably the former that is handling the desktop.
yanismnsr
Copper Contributor
Sep 26, 2021
Thanks for your answers. I noticed that by choosing a solid color or a "Slideshow" as a background it makes it less laggy, but still not as fluent as on windows 10
64blit
Copper Contributor
Sep 22, 2021
yanismnsr
I solved this by making my background a solid color rather than the default image. Hope that helps.
- softbaked_497
  Copper Contributor
  Jan 14, 2023
  This noticeably improved issue for me.
  2023-01 and still nothing addressing this issue from MSFT
  (RTX A4500)
- artistro08
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 26, 2021
  I fixed mine with turning off the dynamic colors. Just pick a color under personalization preferences and you should be good.
  - tkolda
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 28, 2022
    This worked like a charm! Even with Bing background. Night and day. Thanks!!!!!!
MickieMo
Copper Contributor
Sep 09, 2021
Same thing here with the following specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor
32.0 GB of RAM
NVidia RTX 3070 GPU

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