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Best way to speed up PC?
What’s the best way to speed up a slow PC without using any of the conventional methods, i.e. downloading optimizers, disk cleanup, restore/factory reset, etc.?
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
Steve
Best way to speed up PC?
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Hello Steve,
If you like, here are some items in the tutorial below that you can pick and choose from to help improve the performance of Windows 10.
Optimize Performance of Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials
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Since we don't know what hardware you have, the best most noticeable upgrade you can do is to install a quality SSD and clone or Restore an image of your current OS Drive to the new SSD
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Another SSD vote.
This gives an idea of the differences while performing common operations although I have to say even the SSD example here is slower than my laptop which has just 4Gb RAM:
https://youtu.be/Uk1wwGPvXHI
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Any resident AV and anti-malware program has potential to slow system down as it's their job to stand between system and whatever you do on it and check on everything that's going on. Other resident programs can also put additional load on the system by "Stealing" memory and CPU cycles so less you have in Startup, less load on system.
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Like a few people above me said, get a quality Solid State Drive. I don't use anything less than 16GB of RAM. I don't game or anything on my computer, so it's probably over-kill, but the RAM was on sale, so i couldn't pass it up. . haha. . I also have a newer motherboard that doesn't have integrated graphics, so i was forced to get a video card. That helps too! Another thing, is upgrade the processor.
If you do upgrade the processor, please do your research. Don't be like a friend of mine and purchase an AMD Processor and an Intel Motherboard. . It don't work that way. . haha
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Hi there
Always supposing you have enough RAM -- minimum these days 8GB.
1) Fastest Disks possible -- OS on SSD together with swap area, paging files,any scratch areas for things like Photoshop work areas, video editing etc. If more than 1 SSD put paging / swap / scratch areas on separate SSD away from the OS SSD.
2) Split OS partition and data - preferably to separate Disks.
3) Data - especially multi-media can be left on to slower HDD's / spinners.
4) Don't run too many applications concurrently - especially a load of Virtual Machines with heavy loads on them .
5) Upgrade CPU if necessary -- usually unless intensive computing stuff CPU isn't normally a bottle neck - especially once you get to i5 type CPU's and higher.
6) gamers etc get best graphics cards available -- note normal graphics on most machines today is fine for typical (non gaming) users. For those who want multi monitors (4K especially) then a dedicated graphics card is a good idea too.
7) A/V - Virus and Malware protection software : although here YMMV -- I'd just stick with Windows defender these days - good enough especially given the frequency of Windows updates -- the nature of the OS has changed so much that a lot of formely useful 3rd party stuff like Malwarebytes isn't IMO needed any more. But whatever you choose don't run several bits of A/V software concurrently -- stick to one.
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in over 30 years of using Windows I have never found defragmenting Disks the slightest bit of use -- IMO just a waste of time.
SSD's don't need it and if you really are worried about long file chains etc on spinners - simply do an image backup (not a clone) and restore - the backup program will fix all these automatically and will usually be hugely quicker than any defrag type of process.
Cheers
jimbo
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