Ancestry and win10.

[mickmack1942]

    I am running Ancestry on win10 and for some reason it is inordinately slow,
  now is it my computer or is Ancestry and win10 uncomfortable bed fellows ,
  I am running on UK Ancestry not worldwide, just trying to keep costs down
  that is , maybe I should give my Ancestry a good shake up some how with
  a good dose of better drivers that are not obvious to me .

         Er..help..

[AntonyMMM]

Ancestry is just a website like any other - if other sites are loading fine, then that would usually rule out any issues with your computer/broadband speed.


Are you trying to access or work on a tree with a huge number of names ?

[Andrew Tarr]

Might it just be possible that Micr0s0ft are retarding W-10 because it is no longer supported and they would like people to switch to W-11 ?  That is what happens with obsolescent iPhones, after all.

Can't say W-10 seems slower to me though.  Other reasons are usually responsible - for example the power supply to my Hub became unstable recently, causing it to drop out after 5 or 10 minutes.

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

It's bit up and down for me but  Ancestry have been pushing through a lot of changes recently (tree activity for example is now tucked away in the sidebar on tree view rather than on a button at the top). Whenever they change things I se a big increase in hints failing to load or being able to edit details on a profile page but be grateful you don't have win11, the latest Windows update has wrecked hard drives for many users.

[KGarrad]

I have been using Win11 since January, when I bought a new laptop.
No problems at all

[GrahamH]

I have used Ancestry (and many other websites) on both Win10 and Win11 without any problems.

As has already been mentioned, if other web sites aren't exhibiting the same slow response it rules out any software running on your machine.

[PrawnCocktail]

As Glen said, Ancestry have had a lot of changes recently, and I have found it slow to load sometimes. Sometimes closing the browser and re-opening it helps.

And I have a fairly new laptop, and the last Win update was a shocker - for a while, I had to disable the Trust Centre settings, to stop files opening in Read only mode, and File Explorer wasn't loading properly. Plus lots of little quirks. All fine now, everything back to normal, but I do wish MS would test updates properly!

[Zaphod99]

I'm a retired software tester and I really despair at the standard of software at the moment. I know there's a lot more of it around than there was 20 years ago when I was testing, but it really is so bad.  And companies, including my recently dumped ISP, Plusnet, instigate something new and don't have the technology to immediately roll back when they find there's something wrong with it.

And quite how these companies get held to ransom, because they haven't got a backup, I just do not understand.

Zaph

[KGarrad]

I'm with you on this, Zaphod!

I used to perform the software releases at some of my companies.

Unit Testing.
Systems Testing.
Regression Testing.
Release Testing, followed by a rollback if required.

Quite often, Release Dates are set by Senior Management who have absolutely no idea!
The promised date has to be met - no matter what.