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Tip re performance issues
Based on my experience with Windows 10, if your main storage is a HD, here are a few tips that you may find useful for improving the performance of your system:
- The HD seems the main bottleneck of a PC (not applicable is your system runs off an SSD). During periods of intensive HD operations the PC will become less responsive. These periods occur very often by default on Windows 10, for example:
- on (re)boot Win 10 checks for updates; when found they are installed; after installation, some system processess continue to use the HD intensivelly for 20 minutes or more;
- Superfetch periodically scans the HD;
- Indexing (Windows Search) and Cortana periodically scan the HD;
- Telemetry tasks run periodically and use the HD;
- Application Compatibility tasks run periodically and use the HD;
- Antimalware scan runs every time after installing new software and upon software launch.
- To minimize the impact of these activities on your system consider disabling some of them as follows:
- Delay Windows updates; this is not possible by default on Windows 10 Home as the Policy Editor is not installed by design; however, there is a "workaround" - Google gpedit.msc installer and how to delay Windows updates, and follow the instructions; you can check for updates manually at any time; delaying updates resulted in a significant performance improvement for me at boot time;
- Disable Superfetch - you don't really need it;
- Disable Cortana or at least Web Cortana; minimize the number of files/folders on your HD that and indexed;
- Disable Telemetry (several settings);
- Disable Application Compatibility tasks in Task Scheduler (find instructions on the Web);
- Try disabling some Antimalware locations, if possible (e.g., any folders containing large media files);
- Minimize your PC communications with MS servers (Privacy settings);
- Disable Windows Based Script Host in Task Manager|Startup items;
- Disable OneDrive (look up instructions) and any other cloud service, unless you really need it;
- Defragment your HD manually after each major software installation/update then set to Auto weekly. Keeping at least 30% of the HD partitions free also helps (move your media library/archive to a NAS).
For 2-4 try OOSU10, it should be easy to find.
If you have a RAID configuration, make sure that you use the latest Intel RST software for your hardware & Windows 10.
If you have at least 16 GB or RAM you can try setting the paging file size to 0. This works (I have had this setting on for the last 8 years) except for the odd legacy application limited by design to 3-4 GB of RAM that may complain about "low memory".
Last but not least, as of Dec 2018 try upgrading to v.1809; on my PC it's noticeably faster than the previous versions.
Last edited by tr00don; 13 Dec 2018 at 11:32.