Hello...
I have a M1 Macbook Air, an iPhone 13, my wife has an iPhone... I'm completely invested in Apple and everything works fine. BUT: I have a gaming PC I use for gaming, doing the unusual MS Office stuff (like 90% of forms for finance, work are on MS Word) and if I need a bigger screen. For sharing data between those devices I always used Dropbox.
So, about a year ago I stopped using Dropbox because it was very demanding for both RAM and CPU. I tried Onecloud but is was meh, both on Windows and on Mac it had so much problems...
So I tried iCloud and I liked it? It synced bookmarks with Firefox, it did a great job syncing files.
But recently my gaming PC started to crash suddenly, it needed very long for starting programs and all. It got so slow. I checked all running processes and saw that explorer.exe was using 30-50% of CPU constantly. And I couldn't find out what caused this. So I started in save mode and the problem was gone. I deactivated all autostarts and found out that iCloud was the culprit. I googled it and saw that I'm not the only one having problems with iCloud on Windows. I don't blame Apple. I mean, they aren't famous for making good windows software (looking at you, iTunes) and they don't win anything by doing it.
But now I'm really out of ideas what to do next. Is anyone in the same situation having both a Windows machine and Apple stuff? Is there any other good cloud service?
I have a M1 Macbook Air, an iPhone 13, my wife has an iPhone... I'm completely invested in Apple and everything works fine. BUT: I have a gaming PC I use for gaming, doing the unusual MS Office stuff (like 90% of forms for finance, work are on MS Word) and if I need a bigger screen. For sharing data between those devices I always used Dropbox.
So, about a year ago I stopped using Dropbox because it was very demanding for both RAM and CPU. I tried Onecloud but is was meh, both on Windows and on Mac it had so much problems...
So I tried iCloud and I liked it? It synced bookmarks with Firefox, it did a great job syncing files.
But recently my gaming PC started to crash suddenly, it needed very long for starting programs and all. It got so slow. I checked all running processes and saw that explorer.exe was using 30-50% of CPU constantly. And I couldn't find out what caused this. So I started in save mode and the problem was gone. I deactivated all autostarts and found out that iCloud was the culprit. I googled it and saw that I'm not the only one having problems with iCloud on Windows. I don't blame Apple. I mean, they aren't famous for making good windows software (looking at you, iTunes) and they don't win anything by doing it.
But now I'm really out of ideas what to do next. Is anyone in the same situation having both a Windows machine and Apple stuff? Is there any other good cloud service?
