How To Fix Windows 10 Slow Performance | Make Your Computer Faster

Does a slow PC have you down? If so, try some of the following suggestions to help make your Windows 10 PC run better. The tips are listed in order, so start with the first one, see if that fixes the problem, and then continue to the next one if it doesn’t.

Method 1: Disabling All Animations Through Settings

1.Open the Settings app. Press the Start button and select the Settings

2.Choose Ease of Access category.

3.Select the Other options from the options in the left sidebar.

4.Toggle the slider under "Play animations in Windows" to "Off". This will disable all animations.

To re-enable animations, simply slide the slider to "On"

Method 2: Disable Background apps

1.Open the Settings app. Press the Start button and select the Settings

2.Choose Privacy category.

3.Select on Background from the options in the left sidebar.

4.On the "Background " page use one of the two options:

• Turn off the Let apps run in the background toggle switch to disable all apps acquired from the Store.
• Turn off the toggle switches for the specific apps you don't want to run in the background.

Method 3: Disable Startup Programs

1.Open task manager from your taskbar or by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc.

2.If you see the small panel, click More details to switch to the big panel.

3.Open the Startup tab.

Right-click on the apps you don’t need to start automatically at Windows Startup and select Disable or Enable if it was already disabled and you want to enable it back

Method 4: Disable Transparency Effects

1.Open the Settings app. Press the Start button and select the Settings

2.Choose Personalization category

3.Select Colors from the options in the left sidebar.

Toggle the button under Make Start, taskbar, and action center transparent to Off.

Method 5: Disk Cleanup

Right-click the partition where you want to use the Disk Cleanup tool. For example, if you want to use this tool for a C drive, you would do the following:

Right-click on the drive Partition C: => select Properties

The next, click the Disk Cleanup option.

This will bring up the options for deleting. Check the files / files you want to delete and click Clean up system files as shown below.

Ok, now you can delete the files you want.

Method 6: Disable Unnecessary Services in System Configuration

1.Use Windows shortcut keys + R to launch Run. Then type into msconfig and hit Enter.

2.In System Configuration, go to Services tab and check Hide all Microsoft services.

3.Scroll down the slider and uncheck those services that are unnecessary to run during the bootup process. Then click Apply.

4.Restart of the computer

Method 7: Disable visual effects

In order to manage visual effects to speed up Windows 10 use the following steps:

1.Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command.

2.Type sysdm.cpl and click OK to launch System Properties.

3.Under "Performance," click the Settings button.

4.On "Performance Options," under "Visual Effects," select the Adjust for best performance option to disable all the effects and animations.

Important: Using this option will also affect the way fonts are rendered. If you want to keep fonts crisp and more readable, select the Custom option instead, clear all the settings, but leave the Smooth edges of screen fontsoption checked.

5.Click Apply.

6.Click OK.

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