WordPress admin is running so slow! Usually are network issues

After upgrading wordpress to 4.1 and installing a few plugins, my Admin area became un usably slow.

WordPress checks for updates on every request! BAD IDEA

So I edited the code under the function wp_update_plugins() near the call to “wp_remote_post()” to look like this:

 if ( defined( 'DOING_CRON' ) && DOING_CRON ) {
 $timeout = 30;
 } else {
 // Don't update unless doing CRON!! 
 return false;
 }