is your windows 10 computer running slow follow
these steps to speed up windows 10 and maximize your pc's performance
number one ultimate performance your windows 10 pc actually has a speed setting so why not set it
let's go to the start menu into settings system and select power and sleep over to the right click
on additional power settings this gives you a list of power saving options to improve the speed
or the power saving consumption you want to select ultimate performance if it's available in the list
otherwise select high performance that'll maximize the speed of your computer at the expense of power
consumption select the one you want and close that window number two advanced system settings
click on the start menu go to settings system and select about from the left menu on the right side
choose advanced system settings and under the advanced tab click on settings for performance
this will default to let windows choose what's best for your computer but you have a choice
between best appearance and best performance you can improve the speed of your computer by changing
this to best performance i do recommend checking this box to smooth edges of screen fonts or the
fonts in your browser will not look very good also turn on the show thumbnails instead of icons
while we're here click the advanced tab and make sure that this is set to programs for the best
performance rather than background services that will keep your foreground applications running the
best hit okay and close those windows number three graphics performance from the same system menu
click on display on the left scroll down to the bottom and select graphics settings select
this option to change your default graphics setting and turn this on to improve performance
this will take advantage of the gpu acceleration of your graphics adapter
in this list also look at these apps and see what setting they have configured
right now they're listed as power saving but if you click on one you can go to options and you
can select a high performance option for the graphics adapter that you have connected so
if you have multiple graphics adapters it might be defaulting to the slower version make sure to pick
high performance and save that setting you can also add other apps to the list click browse here
and go to the c drive and find the program that you want to add into the list for
example i have camtasia and with the camtasia studio i can add that application to the list
and go into the options and set it to high performance this will ensure that you're using the
fastest graphics adapter in your computer number four system configuration click on your start
menu and in the menu scroll down and find windows administrative tools underneath that find system
configuration and open it in this menu click on the boot tab and check this box for no gui boot
that removes the splash screen that comes up when you boot your computer and it will make your
computer run faster without it while you're here click on advanced options most people recommend
turning this box on and then selecting the maximum number of processors in your system it defaults
to the maximum number of processors when this is turned off so make sure that's turned off and hit
ok now click on the services tab check this box to hide all the microsoft services and look through
this list to see if there's any services running that you know you don't need most of these are
system related but if you have some applications you no longer need you can turn them off to make
sure that they're not part of your system when you start up your computer when you're done hit ok
and it will prompt you to reboot your computer restart now if you want to execute those changes
number five privacy settings let's go back to start settings but this time go into privacy and
under general turn these four settings off that turns off some annoying data collection tools also
go to the diagnostics and feedback and turn this off as well scroll down and turn off this tailored
experiences that eliminates the collection of diagnostic data which can slow your machine down
number six turn off game mode if you don't use your computer for high-end gaming then you can
improve performance by turning off those features let's go back into the settings again under gaming
and on the xbox game bar turn this option off now go over to game mode and let's turn game mode off
under captures turn off this recording in the background and turn off recording audio when
turned on all of these features take performance away from your system and move it to gaming
now that they're disabled it should improve your performance number seven indexer performance
microsoft has added a new feature in the latest version of windows 10 to improve the search index
performance let's go back into the settings again but this time choose search click on searching
windows scroll down and you'll see a setting here for indexer performance when you turn this on
it respects the device power mode settings since we set the power mode to performance
rather than power savings it'll use that new setting to improve the indexing feature since
indexing normally happens in the background this should improve the performance of your machine
number 8 64-bit apps you can improve the performance of your apps on your computer by
installing 64-bit apps this is only going to work if you have a 64-bit operating system in windows
you can check that by going into settings system about and look right here at the system type
the 32-bit operating system has a limitation of 4 gigabytes of installed ram that it uses
in applications but if you have the 64-bit you can use a much larger amount of ram and this is
particularly helpful with apps like excel that use a ton of memory when they run if your 32-bit is
installed you may be able to upgrade your windows operating system to 64-bit to see this improvement
with 64-bit installed you can go into things like office and go to the install office
other installs come down here to apps and devices and you'll see that for microsoft office and for
skype and other apps you have a choice between a 64-bit and a 32-bit with the latest versions
of windows 10 on a 64-bit operating system you want to make sure to install the 64-bit version
of office if you're currently set to 32 you may want to remove and reinstall the 64-bit version
to improve your performance the same thing is true of other apps installed on your windows pc
so always use the 64-bit when possible number nine startup apps go to the bottom of your
screen and right-click on the taskbar select task manager and then choose the startup tab
this is a list of apps that load automatically when you boot your computer
if you disable a number of these then you'll improve the performance of your pc
so take a look through this list and see which ones you don't need you can also click on the
startup impact and see which ones have a high impact on your computer any of them you know
are not necessary click on it and choose disable the less apps running the better the performance
number 10 transparency effects click on the start menu go to settings into personalization
and then select colors from the left menu down here is a setting for transparency effects
it's what gives the windows the see-through look when you move them around the screen
turn this off to get a slight improvement to your performance
number 11 remove bloatware click on the start go to settings into apps
and then take a look at apps and features you'll see a list of all the apps installed on your
computer and you want to look for ones that are bloatware bloatware is apps that are installed for
trial uses of different software or other types of helpful utilities that come with your machine
or get downloaded when you download other software from the web these little nasty pieces of program
take up a lot of resources and don't accomplish anything in your system take a look through the
list see if you see anything unusual that you're not recognizing and get rid of it
select one click uninstall and that will remove the app from your system
number 12 disk cleanup not only is disk cleanup good for maintenance of your computer but it
can optimize your performance as well come down to the search bar type in disk
and select disk cleanup from the menu it defaults to your drive os hit ok and it brings up a list
of files to delete with the amount of space being used select this clean up system files
and choose your default drive again this can take several minutes to run as it collects data
especially if it's been a long time since you've run this
take a look through this list and check any boxes of the things that you want to remove
and hit ok that deletes those files permanently and will improve the performance of your system
number 13 remove desktop shortcuts do you have a screen like this with a million different icons on
it this will slow down the performance of your computer every time windows switches between
applications or different windows it has to reload all these icons if you want to improve performance
remove them or at least move them into a folder on your desktop to avoid all of these loading
every time you switch windows number 14 delivery optimization microsoft has a new feature in the
latest version of windows 10 that allows you to control windows updates and the delivery
you can access it by going to start settings and security and click on delivery optimization
here you'll see that it says delivery optimization provides you with windows and store app updates
and other microsoft products quickly and reliably sounds great it allows you to download from
other pcs or from the internet any of your windows updates that all sounds wonderful where it gets
tricky is when you read this right here turn this on your pc may send parts of previously downloaded
windows updates and apps to pcs on your local network or on the internet this means that your
machine is being used to upload data to other pcs on the internet and that's going to take away from
your performance by using the bandwidth on your internet connection and also background processes
on your machine so i recommend turning this off the only time you might want to leave this on
is if you have a large network with multiple machines and you want to share updates rather
than having each machine pull the bandwidth through your internet connection one at a time
for the home user turn this off and then go into advanced options and you'll also see that it has
settings here for the downloads where you can limit the amount of bandwidth if you turn it off
you don't need to worry about this if you leave it on you can limit how much speed is going to be
used for doing those downloads down here you can control the upload settings and my recommendation
is either turn off the other setting completely or at least check this box and slide this all the
way down so that your machine is not being used to update other pcs on the internet
that can be a significant performance disadvantage you'll notice this sometimes when you're working
on your computer and it's sluggish and you see your internet connection cranking like crazy
that's because it's using your computer to update other people on the internet you can
also see on the previous screen the activity monitor which gives you an idea of how much
download data there has been and how much is being used for upload mine's zeroed out because i just
did a recent update and it reset it but take a look at this and if you see a large upload then
that's something that you want to disable to improve the performance of your machine
number 15 remove cortana cortana is a little assistant that microsoft has added to recent
versions of windows but it uses up resources to run if you want to get rid of cortana
just come down here to the search bar type in gpedit and hit enter open this window up
go into computer configuration administrative templates
windows components scroll down to search and look for this allow cortana
if you double click this you can disable it and hit ok close that window and reboot your computer
after a reboot you'll see cortana is gone and no longer using resources on your computer
number 16 ssd boot drive a solid state drive is one of the best things you can do to improve
the performance on your computer you can check for this in the start settings system storage and come
down to the bottom and choose optimize drives this will tell you the media type for your different
drives that you have in your system in this case the windows c which has the icon for windows is
the boot drive and the operating system and it's a solid state drive d drive is a hard disk drive
in general a solid state drive is going to boot your computer quicker it's going to run
browsers faster and especially gaming and high intensity disk disc io applications if you don't
have a solid-state drive as your primary boot drive then consider doing that as an upgrade
or at least look for an ssd boot drive on any new system that you plan to purchase
it makes a significant difference to the performance in your computer
and while we're here probably not a bad idea to go ahead and click the optimize on those drives
number 17 windows reset if you tried many different things and you can't get your
system to run smooth you could do a windows reset to get it back to your original windows install
go to start settings update and security and click on recovery here you have options to reset this pc
or go back to the previous version of windows if you reset the pc it gives
you a choice between keeping your files but removing all the apps and settings
or you can choose to remove everything and it'll wipe everything out and start over fresh
both of those options give you a clean install of windows to begin installing all your applications
again and either one of these may be necessary to improve the performance of windows 10
that concludes my recommendations to speed up windows if you have other suggestions please
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