Thank you all. The reason for choosing the RAID-1 configuration was reliability. It is extremely stable, if fact, it's my only rig with no HD failure in over 11 years. I think I'll skip the SSD for...

My PC runs Windows 10 Home 20H2 off a RAID-1 HD (configuration: BIOS-> SATA->RAID). I would like to add a new, separate SSD drive to this system. Can this be done without interfering with the...

Tired of 2GB update every other week -- the Windows cumulatives, .NET, Visual Studio...

I packaged my .NET 3.1 Core WPF application using the MSIX tool and published it to the Microsoft Store. All is as expected except that, upon manually pinning the application to the Start menu I...

People keep asking about the size of the pagefile/virtual memory. I have no doubt that file must have its use but I think all the explanations I've read so far were copy-pasted from some source that...

dalchina thanks for your feedback. I wrote the above based on my experience. It is entirely possible that the tips only apply to my system although I doubt it. For example re indexing, I read the...

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...

It seems the power plan settings in Control Panel and those in the Windows 10 Seetings panel are not always in sync. Reset them in Control Panel and then make sure they are in sync.

Superfetch preloads applications that you use often. This means that when you start the computer it will take a bit longer to become responsive and then launching those applications will be a bit...

Interesting, the Game Mode feature. However, at this time it seems impossible to enable for a full-screen game that has not been approved by Microsoft: hitting Win+G doesn't seem to work (pop-up the...

Connection between display/lid and motherboard is probably broken.

What kind of disk usage do you see in perfmon while the game is paused? Do you have a RAID drive?

Check HD usage in perfmon. I noticed that oftentimes after Windows 10 updates are installed additional HD-intensive processes are triggered and run for 30 minutes or more. Games are slowed down...

Try disabling fast boot

Possibly for different reasons, I experience similar startup issues about every other month with my Windows 10 Home system. Here is what I've been able to figure out so far:

- Windows 10 Home...