My work computer is very slow and I suppose most of the time that's the case. I blame three things for my particular PC: having only 4GB RAM, having no SSD and most importantly running McAfee VirusScan Enterprise as the security software. It crawls when debugging through Visual Studio and working with multiple applications at the same time.
There are 4 members in my team who use similar PCs and everyone's experience has been identical, except my PC is going even further.
Last Thursday, I had to run a check on the printer driver to see how much of a performance hit the feature that we had been working on had. When I first measured the printing duration of the stock drivers, it took way longer that it was supposed to. At first I thought it was a problem with the driver package as the stock driver was still in pre-alpha stage. And from this version onwards, there were some large design changes that were being incorporated which could have been the cause of the slowdown in the first place.
Just to pinpoint the culprit, I checked the final release installer of the previous version of the driver which should have no performance issues. It was definitely faster than the one I was originally testing, though not by much. It was still way off the charts.
Finally I decided to run the check on a colleague’s PC. To my amazement, it ran the test many times faster than mine, making my PC the suspect of the mystery.
