31/12/2020 20 Simple Tips to Make your Windows 10 PC fast

20 Simple Tips to Make your Windows 10 PC fast

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As we all know, Windows 10 offers its default settings which is well suited for all its users
around the globe. As we continue to download files and install softwares, the performance of
our systems decreases at a steady rate. By doing some fine adjustments in Windows 10
settings, we can improve the efficiency of our systems.
Some of the methods that’ll make our Windows 10 work much faster are as follows:

Use Disk Cleanup to remove unwanted files

Step 1: – Search Disk cleanup in search box of taskbar.

Step 2: – Now, click on it to open it. Now, select the drive you want to clean.

Step 3: – Wait for few seconds as it will analyse the disk.

Step 4: – Now. select all files and press

OK.

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Disable Background Apps

Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Background apps and disable all unwanted apps running
in background consuming your precious data and CPU.

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Disable Startup Programs

Step 1 – First of all open task manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc.

Step 2 – Then click on startup tab.

Step 3 – Now, right click on any program or app which you want to disable on startup.

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Delete Unwanted temp files

Step 1 – Right click on windows icon on your taskbar.

Step 2 – Click on Run. Alternatively, you can also press windows key + R to bring run
command box.

Step 3 – Now, type %temp% in run command box and hit enter.

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Step 4 – Now, delete all files in this folder

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Step 5 – Now, again right click on windows key and click on run.

Step 6 – Now, type temp in run command box and hit enter.

Step 7 – Now, delete all the files in this temp folder also.

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Delete Prefetch files

Step 1 – Right click on windows 10 taskbar and click on run from the menu

Step 2 – Now, type prefetch in the text field and hit enter.

Step 3 – Now, delete all the files in this folder also.

Choose High Performance Power Plan

1. Go to Settings > System > Power & Sleep

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2. Go to Additional Power Settings.

3. Choose High Performance Power Plan which favor Performance

If Your Windows 10 PC is Still Slow, You can try the tweaks below

Adjust system for best performance

This method helps to remove unnecessary features of the PC which include animations as
well as other visual effects.
Step 1:

Right Click on “This PC” icon on Desktop. Click on “Properties” to view “System Settings”
window.

Step 2:

Click on “Advanced System Settings”.

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Step 3:
Under “Advanced” settings, click on “settings” below Performance section.

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Step 4:

Choose “Visual Effects” tab section.

And then Choose Adjust for best performance.

Step 5:

Click on “OK” to confirm to apply your changes.

Edit registry for mouse and menu delay settings

Step 1 – Right click on windows key and click on run.

Step 2 -Type regedit and hit enter.

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Step 3 – Once registry editor windows open up, browse to the following location.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Control Panel
Mouse

Step 4 – Now, Double click on MouseHoverTime from the right side.

Step 5 – Now, change value data to 10.

Step 6 – Then again browse to the following location given below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Control Panel
Desktop

Step 7 – Now, click on MenuShowDelay from the right.

Step 8 – Now, change its value data to 10.

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Uninstall Unwanted Programs and softwares

Some resource hogging softwares which you may have installed in past may be the sole cause
of the sluggishness of windows 10 OS. Just go to uninstall program and uninsall any
undesirable program without which you can live on.

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Enable Fast Startup

Step 1: – Search “Power options” in the Search bar of taskbbar and clikc to open it.
Step 2: – Now select “Choose what the power buttons do” from the left hand side of
the window

Step 3: – A new window called System settings will open. Click on Change settings that are
currently unavailable;

Step 4: – Simply uncheck the checkbox under this category that says “Turn on fast
startup (recommended)”.

details on How to turn on fast startup

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Disable Search Indexing

Search indexing, though improves search responses, can deteriorate your Windows 10’s
performance, which can be sometimes noticeable too. Hence, if you don’t do lots of
searches every now and then, disabling the search indexing feature is a better option.

To stop/disable the search indexing process, please follow the below steps:

1. Right-click on ‘This PC’ or My Computer and Choose ‘Manage’.

2. Now, Go to ‘Services and Applications’ -> ‘Services’.
3. Find ‘Windows Search’ and double-click on this.
4. Choose ‘Startup type’ and change it to disabled. Then press OK.

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Turning off UAC

The User Account Control (UAC) prompts the user every time before initiating any manual
program executed by the user. This is the default setting in Windows 10. You can change the
setting to install programs easily. The steps required to turn off UAC are:
Step 1:
Click on Windows Search bar positioned at bottom left corner of your screen. Type “uac” and
click on the first option provided.

Step 2:
Slide the bar to “never notify” section and click on “OK”.

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Note: Now, your PC will not prompt for installation of new softwares or any modifications
related to your computer.

Update Device drivers

Update any outdated drivers in your system if any. Just search update device drivers in
the search box.

Now, click select your computer name from the list and then choose action -> Scan for
hardware changes.

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Optimize Folder Options

Step 1: – Search file explorer options in the windows 10 search box of taskbar.

Step 2: – Now, once it opens, click on view tab.

Now, uncheck the given options below

1. Always show icons, never thumbnails

2. Display file icon on thumbnails
3. Display file size information in folder tips
4. Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color
5. Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items
6. Show preview handlers in preview pane

And Finally check the following options given below:

1. Hide empty drives

2. Hide extensions for known file types
3. Hide folder merge conflicts

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4. Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

Finally Click OK .

Disable Unwanted extensions and add-ons of Browsers you use

If you are using chrome, then go on and uninstall extensions to make it fast and put least
load on system. In case of mozilla disable add ons to make mozilla fast. You can alos reset
browsers to make them fast. If you are using edge , you can also customize edge to make it
fast.

By Cleaning Temporary File everytime by Clicking on a Batch file

Press windows + r and open run command box. Now, enter %temp% in it and hit enter. Now,
delete all temp files in the folder. You can also create a batch file and keep it on your desktop,
so that whn you click it any time, it clears all temp files in your system.

The temporary files in windows 10 can be cleaned by creating a batch file. Execution of that
file will result in cleaning all the cookies, cache and any other temporary data. Steps to create
the file are as follows:

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Step 1:
Right-click on the screen, go to the new section and click on “Text Document”.

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Step 2 – Just Copy and Paste the Code Given Below in the Notepad File.

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@echo off
del /s /f /q c:\windows\temp\*.*
rd /s /q c:\windows\temp
md c:\windows\temp
del /s /f /q C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch
del /s /f /q %temp%\*.*
rd /s /q %temp%
md %temp%
deltree /y c:\windows\tempor~1
deltree /y c:\windows\temp
deltree /y c:\windows\tmp
deltree /y c:\windows\ff*.tmp
deltree /y c:\windows\prefetch
deltree /y c:\windows\history
deltree /y c:\windows\cookies
deltree /y c:\windows\recent
deltree /y c:\windows\spool\printers
cls

Step 3:
Save the file as “speed.bat”.

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Note: Now click and Run the file from time to time and optimize the performance of your PC

Clear all kinds of windows 10 cache

Hide all Non-Microsoft services

Step 1 – Right click on windows 10 taskbar and click on run.

Step 2 – Now, write msconfig in the run command box and press enter.

Step 3 -Now, click on services tab.

Step 4 – Now, check the option saying hide all microsoft services.

Step 5 – Now, press Ok.

If Nothing else works , you can rest your PC without losing files
This will make your PC ultra fast for sure and you will also not loose files in this case. It will
give a new birth to your OS and will surely make it fast. Just try resetting your windows 10
PC.

Go to Settings -> Update & Security -> Recovery -> Get started

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Now, choose Keep my files, if you do not want to loose them.

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Reset process takes about few hours, so be patient.

Admin
Saurav is associated with IT industry and computers for more than a
decade and is writing on The Geek Page on topics revolving on windows
10 and softwares.

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