In this video I’ll be showing you ten quick and simple things you can do right now to
instantly speed up your Windows 10 PC. You don’t need to be a tech wiz to understand
what we’ll be doing so just follow what I do and hopefully within a few minutes your
PC will be feeling much quicker. Remember to leave a like and feel free to subscribe
for more tips if the video helps. Whether your PC is new or old, you should be able
to notice at least a small difference in speed by the end of the video. Before we go into
the first method, I do need to say that some of these methods will mean uninstalling certain
apps and folders, so when we get to that, just make sure you double check, so you avoid
removing anything you want to keep! Let’s get started then, the first thing
we’re going to do is disable some of the applications that will run automatically when
we start up our PC. Some of these programs will then run in the background causing your
PC to run slower. As well as making your PC run quicker, it should also reduce the amount
of time it takes for your computer to start up, which is an added bonus! To disable start
up applications the first thing we need to do is go to the task manager. You can access
the task manager by right clicking on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen. Now
find the tab called start up, it should be the fourth option and click on it to show
the list of all the applications that can start up when you turn on your PC. You’ll
need to go down the list and look for any programs you know you don’t use, or those
that you don’t use regularly. Disabling them in here won’t make them stop working,
however they might take a bit longer to run when you want to use them. But of course,
if you don’t use them that often, this won’t make too much difference. To disable an application
in here, all you need to do is right click on it and then choose ‘disable’. It’s
helpful to look at the start up impact column to help make your decision on whether it’s
worth disabling them. You can always enable the program again by right clicking on it
and selecting enable. Also, if you know you don’t use a program at all, then you can
uninstall it completely from your PC. This will free up space on your PC and to do this,
first go to the main settings page. You can get there by clicking on the cog icon within
the start menu. On the settings homepage, go to apps. Find the app you want to uninstall;
you can use the search function if you need to and then select it. Finally click uninstall
and it’s that simple. The second method to speed up your PC is to
make sure storage sense is turned on and to also remove any files you don’t need on
your PC to free up some space. Storage sense is built into Windows 10 and will run as often
as you set it to. It can be set to run automatically and can help keep your PC free of unnecessary
files which will give it a boost in performance. To turn on storage sense or to change the
settings to run it now, you need to search for storage settings in the search bar. When
the storage settings page opens, check that storage sense is turned on at the top of the
page. Now click on the blue “configure storage sense or run it now” link below this to
open the settings. You can change the frequency that storage sense will run at the top, feel
free to make this whatever you want depending on your situation. If you want, you can check
the box below this to delete temporary files and set it to delete files that have been
in your recycle bin and downloads folder for over 30 days. If you’re confident you don’t
need any of these files, then you can run storage sense now by clicking on the clean
now button at the bottom. This should free up some space and improve your PC’s performance.
Also, if you go back to the main storage settings page by clicking the back button, you can
see the types of files that are taking up the most space on your PC. You might notice
that apps take up most of the space and just like I mentioned earlier, you can uninstall
the ones that you don’t use. It’s easy to uninstall an app from here, all you need
to do is click on where it says apps and features, then find the apps you want to delete. Click
on them and select uninstall. You can do this for some of the other sections in the storage
settings, for example deleting videos if they take up a lot of the space on your computer.
We’re now going to run the disk clean-up tool to help speed up our PC. Like the last
method, this should help remove any files you don’t need on your computer. Thankfully,
it’s nice and easy to do and the first thing you need to do is search disk clean-up and
click on it to open it. When the new window opens, you’ll notice that there are many
locations that we can choose to clean. Have a look at the list and check the boxes of
anything you are happy to clean and remove. Now all you need to do is click on OK and
then delete files. Allow disk clean-up to run fully and that’s it and we can move
on to the next method. The next thing we’re going to do to improve
our PC performance is to change some of the animation and visual settings. Changing these
won’t make a massive difference, but you should notice some improvement, especially
on older and slower machines. To change the animation settings, search “advanced system
settings” and click on view advanced system settings. In the new window, click on settings
in the performance section, it should be the top settings option. This will bring up the
performance options window, and in here you can you can quickly select adjust for best
performance to help speed up your PC or you can have a look at the individual options
to create a custom plan. The fewer boxes you select, the faster your PC will be, but you
will obviously lose some of the animations. Feel free to play around with each of the
options to find out what you prefer and what suits your PC.
Moving on to the fifth method to speed up your PC, we’re now going to disable search
indexing. Search indexing is something that will occur in the background when you are
using your PC as it indexes new and updated documents and files. Turning it off will cause
searching to take a little longer, but without it running in the background there should
be a performance improvement. It is up to you and it is worth trying to see if it benefits
you, and if you don’t notice the difference in the time it takes to search, then it might
be worth leaving it off. What we can do though is turn off search indexing for specific folders,
so if you always search for things in your documents, you can leave it on for that folder
but turn it off for others. To turn off search indexing for just some of the locations on
our PC, type indexing options into the search bar and click on it to open the indexing options
window. You’ll now see all the indexed locations, click on modify to change the settings by
checking or unchecking the boxes. You can always come back here any time to revert the
settings if you want. To completely turn off search indexing, first right click on the
start menu in the bottom left and then choose run. In the box, type in “services.msc”
and hit the enter key. The services window should now open and you want to scroll down
until you see the service called Windows Search. Double click on it and change the start-up
type to disabled and click stop just below this. Now click apply and you can try searching
for something on your PC. If you’re looking for a document, you might need to choose the
documents tab now for example for a better search. If you feel the speed benefit isn’t
worth it then to turn it back on, head back to services, then windows search but this
time change the start-up type back to automatic and then click apply, and finally click start
to get it back to how it was. For the sixth way to speed up your PC, we’re
going to scan your PC for any malware and viruses. You can use your own anti-virus software
to do this if you have it, but if you don’t have any, we can use Windows’ built in software.
To scan for viruses, search Windows security in the search bar and then when the window
opens, choose virus and threat protection from the options on the left. In here, you
can choose quick scan or if you go to scan options, you can click on full scan and then
scan now to search for viruses. Allow Windows to perform the scan and then we can move on
to the next tip. The next method will be to change some of
the power settings on your PC. You may be able to increase performance by changing the
power plan. To edit these settings, first go to the control panel. You can get there
by searching for it in the search bar. In the control panel, go to system and security
and then find power options from the list. If you haven’t already, you might find that
turning on high performance will help speed up your PC, but you will increase power consumption,
so if you are using a laptop, this will shorten the battery life. Whilst you’re in these
settings, click on where it says “choose what the power buttons do” from the options
on the left and then click “change settings that are currently unavailable” in blue.
Make sure “turn on fast start-up” is selected. If it is already, then you don’t need to
change anything. These power settings changes should improve PC performance.
For the next method, we’re going to focus specifically on the browser you use. This
might not apply to all of you but if you have any browser add ins, then removing them will
help speed up your browser experience. Remove the ones you don’t use. The method to remove
them might be slightly different on each browser, but on Chrome for example, all you need to
do is right click on the one you want to remove and then choose “remove from Chrome”.
The ninth method to try is to check for any Windows updates. Updates can bring performance
improvements and if you are on an older version of Windows 10, there might be some compatibility
problems. To check for and install any new Windows updates, first go to the main settings
page. You can get there by clicking on the cog icon within the start menu. In settings,
go to update and security and then click on where it says check for updates. Install any
updates if there are any. If you run into any problems or if Windows isn’t updating
for some reason, then click the card now or go to the link in the description to a video
of mine that will show you how to fix Windows update problems.
Finally, the tenth method to speed up your PC is to close any programs that are running
in the background. The easy way to do this is to click the up arrow that is in the taskbar.
Choose a program that you don’t use and right click on it. If I choose Chrome for
example, I can prevent it from running in the background which it is currently set to
do. Also, click on exit for any of the apps you aren’t using to close them fully.
So those are the 10 easy methods I have, some other things you can look into to speed up
your PC is resetting it, which you can do whilst keeping your documents. Also, if your
PC is especially old, it might be worth upgrading parts or the entire PC. But hopefully the
ten quick fixes have helped, and you won’t need to do any of these more complex and costly
solutions. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments and let me
know of any video suggestions too. I hope I was able to help you speed up your PC today,
if the video helped make sure you leave a like and feel free to subscribe – it really
helps me out! Thanks for watching and I will see you in another video.