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How to improve Power BI desktop performance?
Presently I click and wait and wait and wait before control is returned. Building measures is painful as resolving errors is a very slow process.
Getting anything done is like wading through sand.
Laptop is and i5-7200 @ 2.5GHz and 8GB RAM. But I am wondering if the 130 other process (anti-virus, anti-spam, security, updates, intel stuff, adobe stuff, sophos stuff, microsoft stuff) are causing me some problems. I say that in that I can use Excel happily and suffer none of the slowness issues I'm getting with Power BI.
Each Power BI updates seems to be even slower than the previous version.
Suggestions?
Laptop is
@Anonymous , refer to someof these tips
https://www.thebiccountant.com/speedperformance-aspects/
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/MBAS-Gallery/Microsoft-Power-BI-My-Power-BI-report-is-slow-What-should-I-do/td-p/712567
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/MBAS-Gallery/Aggregation-and-composite-model-Microsoft-Power-BI-fast-and/td-p/712871
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