hey guys welcome back this Bernardo from the BTNHD and the top ten things to
speed up that slow PC in 2019 so let's get started
top number one in my list is hungry resources your going to do a
control-alt-delete and go to task manager or shift control exit or right
click on the task bar and go to task manager and you want to go inside
processes click on the memory or the CPU column and organize it so to the point
that you are able to see which one is the highest for this example my
anti-ware which is Windows Defender was pretty high and taken a lot of the
resources so that's not something that I want to kill but if you have something
else that's taking a lot of resources just right-click on it and just end the
task number two in my list is system tray now this is a really bad example
because I keep my stuff pretty clean but if you have like Creative Cloud you have
a bunch of other stuff like tools like Snagit OBS running within your system
tray that stuff is actually running behind the scenes and taking resources
from your PC so close that stuff up if you're not using it top number 3 startup
programs believe it or not if you have like Skype are Windows Defender and
other tools they automatically start up when you start your machine right when
you log it into your desktop stuff is still happening behind the scenes and
most likely there are applications to get into this just go inside task
manager called a startup right click on it and disable it ok now top number four
my list is reduce animation now Windows 10 is really heavy with the animation
thing so to remove it is pretty easy we're going to right click on the Start
menu go system within system go to system info between system info you want
to go inside advanced system settings and you want to locate the performance
click on settings and by default it's set as let windows choose what's the
best for your computer you don't really want that so what you want to do is
adjust the best performance when you pick adjust for the best performance
it's gonna uncheck all this stuff here which is what you want and just apply it
ok and you should be good to go top number 5 is browser cleanup yes your
browser if you're a person like me that really uses Chrome I like to use
extensions now a lot of them but if you click on the three little dots go to
more tools and you go inside extensions you should see like a bunch of plugins
and extensions where can chrome if you're using that if you're using
Firefox or Internet Explorer again just clean up those extensions and plugins if
you're not using them there behind the scenes using resources and you should
just remove them if you're not using them or disable them top number 6 on my
list is scan the computer so within Windows 10 click on the notification
center go to all settings click on update and security go to Windows
security open your windows security and just click on virus threat and
protection and just do a quick scan now within Windows 10 a Windows Defender
automatically does this and it also keeps the definitions within your
Windows Defender up-to-date so you don't really need to worry about that top
number seven on my list is disk cleanup so if you go inside the Start menu and
start typing disk cleanup and click on the disk cleanup app it gives you a nice
little summary of what you can clean up and free up within your C Drive if you
click on clean up system files it will go a little deeper inside your C Drive
and locate files like the Windows updates that can be removed and this
size right here will get a little higher if you do clean up your windows updates
top number eight in my list is defrag the hard drive pretty easy you go inside
the Start menu and start typing defragment and just click on the
defragment and optimize drives and you get the nice little wizard here you can
pick the C Drive which is your primary hard drive this is where the Windows
operating system is installed and this is the one that you should optimize now
top number nine on my list is unwanted software remove them all right click on
start start typing control panel and within control panel go aside programs
and features and within programs and features you're gonna get a whole list
of all the software that is installed on your machine if you're not using any
particular software and it's using a lot of space within your machine remove it
it's junk it's just dear it's being used
behind-the-scenes regardless if you're not using it just throw away remove it
clean it up and top number 10 in my list is like if top 1 through 9 does not work
out for you number 10 should work and that's the reset if you click on the
notification icon and go to all settings or if in all settings go to update
insecurity within updates and security you want to go inside of recovery within
recovery you're gonna locate reset this PC click on get started and you have two
options here it keeps all your files removes apps and settings but keeps your
personal files or removes everything and just completely wipes it and reinstall
the operating system now if you're doing this make sure you backup everything
make sure that you have every CD or every download Exe file to download the
applications again you have third backups of your Word documents or your
photos or whatever so you could read download them reinstall them into the
machine if one through 10 does not work out that
means you need a new machine well don't automatically go out and
purchase a machine upgrade the memory or if you're running a SATA hard drive most
likely you could purchase a solid-state drive which is extremely fast read and
write speeds but if you purchase a new solid-state drive that means you got to
get yourself a copy of Windows 10 and reinstall it inside that hard drive I
think the first thing that you could do which is the easiest is upgrade the
memory because you can open up the box and just plug and play within the DIMM
slots and you're good to go and see if that works out if the memory does not
work out a hard drive if the hard drive and the memory doesn't work out and you
you're probably using an old processor and then it's time for you to start
thinking about getting a new machine so hopefully you guys enjoy this top 10
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and I catch you guys on the next one peace out