M1 News has published an eye-catching collection on Windows 10 optimization, you can read it below.

1. Evidencia? Let's restart

Although the board is roughly the same age as a computer, many users keep it turned on for weeks from virtue or forgetfulness. Shut down the machine every day: using the power button instead of restarting, then count to twenty in the “ancient” method until you start.

2. Update, refresh, and refresh

Unfortunately, it's not always a scare that Windows is slower after a system upgrade, most recently slowing down for many people due to scandalous processor vulnerabilities. Still, these exceptions, and Microsoft updates, are (also) intended to fix common errors that can reduce system performance. Open Windows / Hood / Update and Security / Windows Update regularly and select Check for Updates.

3. Check the applications that start automatically

Often, your PC slows down because there are too many processes running in the background that you don’t even need, they just waste system capacity. To control them, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del at the same time and select the "Start" tab. To prevent a program from starting unnecessarily, select "Disable". Of course, we need to know what process we are disabling, but for example, a wireless mouse is completely unreasonable to look for inherited updates.

4. Run Disk Maintenance

Disk Cleanup is a built-in Windows utility. To start, after pressing the Windows button, start typing “Disk Cleanup”. Use it to delete temporary files that have accumulated on your machine, such as previews, downloaded program files, and offline web pages. After starting, select the appropriate check box. If you select the "Clean system files" option, you can enter an administrator password to delete unnecessary system updates that are very large and take up a lot of GB to free up space.

5. Remove unused software

Never used or “bloatware” software takes up space on your hard drive and reduces machine performance. To remove them, select Control Panel / Programs and Features / Uninstall a program. Right-click on the program you do not need and select "Uninstall" and then click "Yes".

6. Turn off spectacular effects

In Windows 10, special visuals are turned on by default to make things better when you start and shut down some programs. The disabling option, which is so useful for older machines, is a bit difficult to find in the sheds of Windows 10. However, all you have to do is click "Change Windows display and performance settings" after clicking the Windows button to get "Performance settings" options. Here, according to demand and PC performance, we can choose whether Windows decides for us, or the best look, or even the best performance. For the latter, Windows 10 turns off all visual elements.

7. Do not be transparent

Enabling menu transparency is particularly resource-intensive, but unnecessary. To make your computer easier, right-click on a free area of ​​the screen, select "Personalize" from the pop-up menu, then "Colors" and drag the slider in "Transparency Effects."

8. Run the system maintenance

Windows 10 has a built-in utility that performs regular maintenance tasks, such as defragmenting your hard disk, checking for updates, and checking for malware. These tasks usually run in the background while the computer is idle, but if you experience a system performance issue, you can also run maintenance manually in Control Panel \ All Control Panel \ Security and Maintenance. Or type "Security and Maintenance" after pressing the Windows button.

9. Buy RAM

Windows speeds are dramatically improved by buying some cheap RAM these days. Although Windows 10 is in principle enough for 4 GB to run smoothly, there are resource-intensive graphics applications and video games that can easily lay the machine down.

10. The big jump: take an SSD

SSDs use flash memory, they should be thought of as USB flash drives. Their acquisition speeds up the system by orders of magnitude. You don't have to worry about Windows on your old hard drive or the programs you have installed: for example, you can use the free Clonezilla to clone everything to your new SSD. And the old disk will be great for data storage. 

Opinion

For our part, we welcome this “initiative,” yet the old saying comes to mind: keep the custard at the head. In the following, you can read our professional opinion from the list above.

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Undoubtedly, there may be a life situation where this proposal holds true, yet there is a logical loophole here. Windows 10 includes the SuperFetch (preload) feature, which fills up available free memory with our frequently used applications. By default, a reboot immediately clears this cache, so the next time it loads, the operating system will need to reload it. As long as this process lasts, your computer will presumably be (somewhat) slower than with a built-in memory.

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Windows 10 installs updates automatically by default, so manual scanning is unnecessary.

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To do this, we would have two additions: you should turn on the following columns in the place named in the hint: “Effect on startup” and “Processor time at startup”. With the help of the former, we get an accurate picture of how long the given process took down the machine.

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We can also automate this by simply opening the “Storage Area” submenu under the “System” menu item in the Engine House, and then turning on the “Storage Area Assistant” option. We will see that we can customize this service in some detail, after which we will have nothing to do with it.

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This is pretty obvious, we don't usually install software that we don't need, bloatware.they are also worth avoiding.

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Like its predecessors in Windows 10, it assesses your computer's graphical performance during installation and then adjusts the visual display accordingly, meaning that on an ancient PC, it will presumably hold back the effects anyway, and on another machine it will no longer matter.

7.

Here, practically the same applies as before.

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As the source writes, these optimizations take place without external intervention, and manual startup is unnecessary in the vast majority of cases.

9.

It is true that Windows suffers from low memory, it is a great pity that prices have been moving at very unpleasant heights for a long time.

10.

Here, however, the situation is already orders of magnitude better, it is really worth considering purchasing an SSD - more about this here we wrote.

What have you experienced about the above?

Source: hirado.hu