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With Windows 11, will there be a noticeable speed improvement doing a fresh installation, or could end users upgrade in-place and see improved speeds?
- Joe_Lurie
Microsoft
If the question is about the speed of the installation, your end-user will see a faster in-place upgrade, as most of the work happens behind the scenes while the user is working. If the question is about the speed of the device once Windows 11 is installed, there are too many factors to answer absolutely. I recommend using a service like Endpoint analytics to determine what is causing the device to run slowly. Endpoint analytics works on Windows 10 and Windows 11.- Sorry, should have been clearer. When Windows 10 came out, we had a bunch of users in-place upgrade from 7 to 10. A user with the same programs and hardware saw a significant performance increase by doing a fresh install compared to another user with the same software and hardware that did the in-place upgrade. I was looking to see if Windows 11 would be the same way when upgrading from Windows 10 (as Windows 10 will have had years of updates and file accumulation like Windows 7 did), or if Windows 11 is smarter with the in-place upgrade and file cleanup so that while a fresh install is always best, would it see as great of an improvement as the jump from 7 to 10 did?
