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Ironically in the windows 95~XP era that was my #3 advice for fixing virtually all weird issues in windows. If you couldn't fix it by restarting or with in 20mins of basic trouble shooting you were probably better off reformatting.
Windows Vista-8.1 still had quite a few reformat modems, mostly caused by hard drives and ram malfunctions corrupting system files, but since Windows 10 though half of everything that really seems like it could be fixed with reformatting isn't and now it's one of those things that when people bring it up I'm more likely to on the hesitant side of triple check for hardware issues first. Despite the fact with portable programs and modern hard drive speeds it can be pretty fast to reformat nowadays.
Literally last week a friend of mine was having the weirdest monitor issues, and was chomping at the bit thinking reformatting would fix it for sure, and I was trying to talk him into doing more trouble shooting before hand. Unwilling to wait he reformatted the computer 4 times in a row before finally doing more testing and figuring out that the monitor was in fact the issue and it wasn't windows. On the bright side he got a killer deal and a nice monitor over black friday because of the timing.
 

If you're after page fault and the like details you are usually always better off with:
Process Explorer:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
 
Right click a column header > Select columns [only context menu option if you clicked in the right place]
Process Memory tab > Page Fault check box.

Than you can see the page fault for all active processes

Looks like the MSI B350 has gotten a lot of nice support so it would be a great candidate for a drop in upgrade.
 
If you do multitasking you'd probably notice a good boost moving up to 32+GB of ram. With as bloated as programs and windows are nowadays. It's pretty easy to go over 16GB of RAM. Just looking at taskmanger now I only have an email client, a web browser with 1 tab open, a music player, steam,and a handful of background tools [AHK, Telegram, windowmanger..etc] and my system has 8GB of 64GB of ram committed and in use.
I'm looking forward to a new video card upgrade too, though I'll wait until a couple months into the new year. Now that the markets stabilized I expect a pretty good price drop once the "new" rush ends.

The in slot CPU upgrade is certainly an option, if supported by your motherboard. I'd highly recommend jumping to the 5600 since you do 3D work, but not the 5600x as it cost more and it's only a slight difference in overall power also don't get the 5600G it's an APU which you don't need in your setup since they sacrifice CPU power for integrated graphics [IGP] and you'd be better off saving even more money and going for the Ryzen 5 5500 [currently under $100] since it's about on par to the 5600G but without the integrated graphics. Which for the value the 5500 is the cheap and powerful upgrade as long as your motherboard supports it.
Given the potential age of the motherboard I'd probably recommend avoiding the Ryzen 7 5800 or above as they bump up the TDP [power consumption] and even if the board can support it in the bios it has a high chance of leading to system unsuitability.
Which brings up the fact that not all AM4 boards can do in place generation updates, especially that many generations. You'd want to look up the motherboard model number and make sure there's been a bios update that supports the newer CPU before buying one. Also make sure to flash the newer bios before updating the CPU otherwise you may wind up having to put the old CPU back in, in order to update the bios for the system to work with the new generation CPU.
 

Really a lot of old computers do really good, it's mainly that AMD was lagging behind on the single thread for a long time. Which is one of the reasons why Zen 2+ which is what everyone else on this forum post has was such a big deal it really brought the fight back to intel.  Since it's like your workstation, the 7700k is older than your 1700x but in a lot of real world settings the 7700k is just faster/better. I have a 7700k as pen display art computer literally sitting next to me. Than my old workstation was a Ryzen 5 3600 for virtually all real world things the 7700k was faster than the 3600.
Intel 7700k [2016] raw 9667  single 2729
AMD 3600 [2019] raw 17805 Single 2569
 
the 3600 could only best the 7700k in: AAA gaming, 3D software rendering, Code compiling times, and software video encoding.
Note only software rendering and encoding, since anything that used the video card the 7700k did just as good as the 3600 because they both had a 1080ti.
Because I was super disappointed in the 3600 I moved up to the 5600x [Raw 21955 Single 3354] since it was an easy drop-in CPU replacement, and now my workstation/gaming system is noticeably faster than my art computer 7700k.
I've also had a lot of other intel and AMD systems over the years, I built computers for friends and family, and usually kept them for a week or two to use as my main work computer to test stability. So I've gotten hands on experience with almost every generation of Intel and AMD cpu since the Intel  Q9550 and the AMD Phenom 9550
Which despite having nearly the same model number and coming out at the same year the Q9550 from intel wipped the floor by miles with the Phenom 9550... The early Phenom days was also a bleak time in AMD history.
 
 
 

There's a good chance it's just your CPU/Motherboard.
My spare parts living room computer is a Intel Core i5-4670K which has pretty much the same single thread performance as the 1700x and uses a samsung 970 pro on an M2 slot that doesn't properly support it's speed and I went ahead and put AD 2.0 on it and it takes 37 seconds from icon click to blank load.
 
 

There's a good chance it's just your CPU/Motherboard.
My spare parts living room computer is a Intel Core i5-4670K which has pretty much the same single thread performance as the 1700x and uses a samsung 970 pro on an M2 slot that doesn't properly support it's speed and I went ahead and put AD 2.0 on it and it takes 37 seconds from icon click to blank load.
 
 

If you're after page fault and the like details you are usually always better off with:
Process Explorer:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
 
Right click a column header > Select columns [only context menu option if you clicked in the right place]
Process Memory tab > Page Fault check box.

Than you can see the page fault for all active processes

1700X  is not a great AMD cpu to compared to the 7700k and especially not to the 12700K.
The 1700x has poor single thread performance especially if it's not paired with ideal ram, which could severely impact single thread bottle necked tasks like opening large software.
 
Given how old the 1700x is there's also a good chance your hard drives are bottled necked by your motherboard too if you're using M2 drives, which would effect load time quite a lot.
eg: All M2 drives are not equal even if they are the same, M2 Sata is vastly slower than M2 NVMe, and M2 NVMe gen 1 is vastly slower than NVMe Gen 3..etc but just like video cards you can plug newer M2 drives into older slots and they work, but you get reduced speeds bottled necked by the old slot standard.
 

If you're after page fault and the like details you are usually always better off with:
Process Explorer:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer
 
Right click a column header > Select columns [only context menu option if you clicked in the right place]
Process Memory tab > Page Fault check box.

Than you can see the page fault for all active processes

In the same way there are global colors, it would be nice if there were global effects / FX.
 
That way it would be easy to adjust and easily keep standardized things like drop shadows and blur across a wide range of objects all at the same time.

In the same way there are global colors, it would be nice if there were global effects / FX.
 
That way it would be easy to adjust and easily keep standardized things like drop shadows and blur across a wide range of objects all at the same time.

NM found it, it was in one of the alt numbers at the bottom of the post and I had missed it the first time through.
KB5017271 

+1

Started game dev work in unity and the lack of direct PSB  saving is going to force me away from using Affinity Designer, which is unpleasant as I've invested quite a lot of time into learning and using Affinity Designer.
At this rate though the slow down from having to use 3rd party tools to convert files with every minor change is out weighing the time savings of using AD.

+1

Started game dev work in unity and the lack of direct PSB  saving is going to force me away from using Affinity Designer, which is unpleasant as I've invested quite a lot of time into learning and using Affinity Designer.
At this rate though the slow down from having to use 3rd party tools to convert files with every minor change is out weighing the time savings of using AD.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

New to the beta so hopefully I'm putting this in the right place. This seems to be where people are reporting bugs.
Bug:
When a color is change in the gradient flyout if you are using something other than linear it will change back to linear.
 
Example: If you are using a elliptical gGradient and than change a color it will turn into a linear gradient.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

I'd like to request an eraser tool like the one found in Clip Studio Paint for vector curves.

If you're the type of person who doesn't update more then a year or more anyway then the support ending is largely meaningless to you.
There will be more and more programs and games though that will require dependencies not found on Windows 7 which is ultimately what can make Windows Vista and XP hard to use in the current day. Though still more then possible and on many systems XP is still the better option depending on what the task for the computer is.
If you go windows 10 consider checking out the following tools to make life nicer:
 
O&O ShutUp10: Manage updates yourself by really disabling them until you want them and helps you manage your privacy settings. MS frequently turns anti-privacy settings back on after updates therefore it's good to remember you need to run it and check for changes after every update.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
I'd recommend checking out O&O AppBuster from them as it is a far better and faster way to remove windows 10 pre-installed apps then windows Built in system.
Winaero Tweaker: Can help you get things back so they feel less messed up. Windows 10 dose quite a few horrible things to the interface by default which are easily fixed if you know how. Winaero tweaker makes it easier to do for everyone.
https://winaero.com/comment.php?comment.news.1836
 
OpenShell: Is currently IMO the best start menu you can get for windows 10.
https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
 
I personally consider Windows 10 unusable by default. It feels over bearing and bloated with things and frequently hounds you keeping you from work.
 
My disclaimer: My work computer is windows 7. My web browsing computer is windows 10. My TV computer is Windows 10. My Gaming computer is Windows 10, my 3d printer Computer is XP. I find it takes about 1-3 hours to strip windows 10 down to a nice state after a fresh install and then 10-30mins after every update.
 
P/s for anyone who just wanders by this post through a search or something.
Newer hardware requires windows 10. Unless you are buying used or reformatting a pre-skylake system it is in most cases a waste of time to think about anything other then Windows 10 vs Linux (I like Manjaro BTW) as they are likely the only thing that is going to run on newer hardware.