Tested! Here’s how much the new Windows security features hurt PC performance

Microsoft’s Virtualization Based Security feature can indeed slow down your performance—sometimes by a lot.

Security is key to Windows 11—and also one of the reasons it’s breaking with the long-held tradition of legacy hardware support and basically dumping every PC made before 2017 overboard.

Why? The reasons appear to run the gamut from stability to security and performance.

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