Here is a tutorial on how to speed up laptop or computer on Windows 10.

Adjust Your Power Settings

Let’s get started by adjust of your Power settings on laptops.

Move your cursor down to the Windows 10 Task bar, take a left click on Battery icon.

Click Power & sleep settings.

Now open up the Settings, then click Additional power settings (settings that give you a power options).

Click on the Show additional plans down arrow.

That will allow you to see your High Performance settings. Click on it. Once you do that you are now set for high performance on your power settings an you should see a significant improvement on your performance during work or gaming.

Increase the Performance

To increase the performance in Windows 10 there is a Performance options. You need to use them.

Go down and take a right click on Start Menu icon, that will open hidden menu. Then click on System.

At System information window click on Advanced system settings. That will open up a System properties windows.

Go to Advanced tab.

Click the Settings button in Performance.

In next Performance option go to Visual Effects tab. You can see that Let Windows choose what’s better for my computer option is enabled by default. You need to check mark on Adjust for better performance here or customize it manually. Remember that the best performance makes all of the features to run.

Click OK again and close it.

Adjust System Configuration

Let’s go ahead and move to our final step – Adjust system configuration.

Click on Start menu icon, after make a right click on it to open hidden menu. Go up and click on Run.

That opens up Run command form and we can go ahead and type msconfig. When you’ve done so go down and click OK button.

Now you opened System configuration window. Click on the Boot tab and you will see the list of OS you are booting.

The next step is to change the boot time from default 30 seconds. We recommend you to set time between 3-5 seconds, that will helps your OS to boot quicker.

Then click on Advanced options. Make sure here that you have a maximum number of processors being used (check in Number of processors). Then make sure that you have maximum amount of memory being used (check in Maximum memory).

Click Apply and then click OK.

Once you’ve done that go ahead and make sure that you don’t have any apps that don’t need to be started and using your resources.

Go to System configuration window and click Startup tab. You can control, stop or enable the apps that start up at your booting here. Click Open task manager.

In the Task manager list you will see all of your apps that are running in the start up. You can enable/disable your apps to start at the booting by selecting them and clicking Enable/Disable button and that won’t start up.

Once you’ve done this, close the window and go back to System Configuration Startup tab. Click OK.

After that you need to restart your computer to apply this changes. You can do that by clicking Restart at notification window that appeared.

Always Keep Your System Updated

This procedure often causes controversy among many Windows users. Some people think that updates only slow down the system, and someone notices an increase in performance. But there is some nuance: Microsoft in each of its updates indicates what changes have been made, what is fixed/added, and also updates its built-in antivirus.

At the same time, in Windows 10 there is support for third-party hardware without the need to install drivers manually. Yes, this does not work with absolutely all devices (even in GNU/Linux it’s not), but, most often, the problem with the operation of devices in the system is almost eliminated. And, updated driver versions usually work better than their previous versions.

Disable Live Tiles

This component in the Start menu provides the user with information about applications from the Internet or local network. Its effectiveness is rather doubtful, and for laptops it can also cause an additional battery consumption. Therefore, this can be turned off.

1. Open the “Edit group policy” via Search bar.
   
2. On the left in the partition tree, go to “User Configuration” → “Administrative Templates” → “Start Menu and Taskbar” → “Notifications”.
   
3. In the central window, click the Settings item “Turn off tile notification” via context menu, double click or “Policy setting”.
4. Select “Enabled” and press OK.
   

You can also disable Live Tiles manually through the context menu of a specific tile.

Keep Track the System drive

Over time, Disk (C:) can be loaded to the limit, especially if it’s small. If the free space is less than 1 GB, the system will significantly “slow down”.

The lion’s share of disk space is occupied by the cache of various programs, including browsers, temporary system files, downloaded files from the Internet, etc. For their comprehensive removal, you can use the system disk cleaning utility.

1. Open File Explorer.
2. Right-click on Disk (C:) → Properties.
   
3. Press on “Disk Cleanup”.
   
4. You can press “Clean up system files” to delete it. After several seconds (or minutes) the list will be updated.
   
   
5. Choose the files and press OK. Confirm your decision.
   
6. Wait for the process to finish.

That’s all! Try it and find out what effect these changes will have on your machine.

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