The Geek Page

20 Simple Tips to Make your Windows

10 PC fast
Updated On January 5, 2022 by Admin

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:

Table of Contents
Use Disk Cleanup to remove unwanted files
Disable Background Apps
Disable Startup Programs
Delete Unwanted temp files
Delete Prefetch files
Choose High Performance Power Plan
If Your Windows 10 PC is Still Slow, You can try the tweaks below
Adjust system for best performance
Edit registry for mouse and menu delay settings
Uninstall Unwanted Programs and softwares
Enable Fast Startup
Disable Search Indexing
Turning off UAC
Update Device drivers
 Optimize Folder Options
Disable Unwanted extensions and add-ons of Browsers you use
By Cleaning Temporary File everytime by Clicking on a Batch file
Clear all kinds of windows 10 cache
Hide all Non-Microsoft services
If Nothing else works , you can rest your PC without losing files

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.

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

Step 4 – Now, delete all files in this folder

 

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.
 

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

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”.

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

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.

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.
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

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.

 
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”.
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.

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

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

@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”.

 
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

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

Reset process takes about few hours, so be patient.

Read More:

Toggle camera and microphone settings with simple shortcuts…

How To make Calculator App Always on Top in Windows 10
Fixed: "Turn on fast startup" Option Missing In Windows 10 /…
How to make your Taskbar bigger or smaller in Windows 11
How to Make File Extensions Visible or Invisible on Windows…
Make Windows 11 Accept File Paths over 260 Characters

How to, Windows 10

Fix This Program has been blocked for your protection in Windows 10
 Top 12 Best compressing software and applications for Windows

8 thoughts on “20 Simple Tips to Make your Windows 10 PC fast”

Tanay Saxena
February 12, 2022 at 9:04 am

thanks a lot …. it really helped me

Gaurav
February 4, 2022 at 11:25 pm

Thankyou dear

Anonymous
October 2, 2021 at 11:21 pm

so useful

Irenė
July 29, 2021 at 9:14 pm
 thanks for your help I guess it will work

Loh Shi San

June 15, 2021 at 5:18 am

Thanks a lot! It really improve my productivity!

sddsasda
May 29, 2021 at 11:00 am

nice thanks

carlo
November 28, 2018 at 9:16 pm

the msconfig–>change number of processor is plain wrong. That option was

made to DECREASE the number of processors to be used during boot,
otherwise the system authomatically run with full capacity (that is the case if
the flag is not checked).
not expecting this kind of “suggestions” from a site of your authority 🙂
Koby
May 12, 2016 at 8:05 pm

Some software give the chance to make pc faster by removing temp files. I
personally use ccleaner, after implementing the software i get some extra
speed with my pc. But computer become affected with malware then only
system setup can recover the speed.

Comments are closed.

Search …

Recent Posts

How to recover permanently deleted mails from Gmail on android phone

Can not delete contact from android phone, Keeps reappearing again

How to erase data from lost android phone remotely

WhatsApp icon Missing From Home Screen Although it is Installed Fix

Google Play Store insufficient storage space issue in Android Fix

How to save your contacts in Google Drive [Import and Export]

 FHow to Fix Windows Mail App showing HTML Code issue

Snipping Tool automatically minimizing the window after snipped Fix

How to prevent your children from buying anything in Play Store

Popup keeps appearing and sending you to the PlayStore Fix

Recommended

1. 101 Tech Tricks you don't know

2. Windows Run commands
3. Windows 10 Tips and Tricks
4. Windows Keyboard Shortcuts
5. How to Make Windows 10 Fast

© TheGeekPage 2023