How to improve Windows 10 performance

Windows 10

There is no perfect operating system, none. Each and every one of them, be it macOS, iOS, Android, a Linux distro or any other, each and every one of them suffers from the same security and stability issues. The only and quickest solution to troubleshoot performance is to install the operating system from scratch.

To avoid reaching that point, which some users may consider problematic due to all that it entails to make a backup copy of all the data, in this article we are going to show you different tricks to avoid that over time the Windows 10 performance not the one you offered us at the beginning.

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If you have reached this article, it is most likely that your team is not exactly what is said new, and you've probably installed Windows 10 after you've been through Windows 7, especially now that it has run out of official support. If you follow the tricks that we show you below, you will see how the performance of your Windows 10 computer improves substantially.

The tricks that we show you below they are ideal when we have just installed Windows 10 and we haven't started installing apps yet. If this is not your case, the improvement you can find may be minimal and not as great as if you did them with Windows 10 just installed.

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Improve Windows 10 performance

Turn off animations and transparencies

Disable animations Windows 10

Operating systems not only enter through the eyes, but for its functionality, however, many are the users who prefer aesthetics to functionality. In this sense, Windows 10 makes a large number of visual effects available to us so that we can enter through the eyes, in the form of animations and transparencies.

The problem in older or less resourceful computers is that a processor and graphics intensive use at all times, so the user and visual experience is no longer pleasant for the user, since they do not offer the fluidity that one would expect.

If we want to improve the fluidity of the system we must deactivate them through the menu of Settings> Accessibility> Display> Simplify and customize Windows. To deactivate them, we only have to uncheck the switches corresponding to Show animations in Windows and Show transparencies in Windows.

Disable file indexing

Disable file indexing

Every time you install Windows 10 from scratch, you will see that during the first days, your computer is continuously reading hard disk. What your computer is doing is indexing the documents that you have on your computer, so that when searching for them, you do not have to completely scan your computer looking for them, an operation that can take several minutes if the number of files is very high.

If you are an orderly user and you keep your documents in an orderly way on your computer, you can disable file indexing and avoid that your team, from time to time, spends several minutes making a record of the files you have stored on your computer.

To disable file indexing, you must type in the search box services.msc and press Enter. In the window shown below, we must look for the option Windows Search. Click twice to display the options and select the type of start Disabled.

Review the programs that run when the computer starts

Disable apps start menu

Some applications need to be run every time we start our computer. These applications, in most cases, are necessary for external devices to work when we connect them to the computer at any time, so it is not advisable to remove them from Windows startup.

However, there are some applications that when installed, add to Windows startup without our permission to start more quickly when we want to run it, which causes the startup time of our equipment is considerably increased, becoming several minutes until the hard disk stops reading and is ready to follow our instructions.

In this case, the best we can do is remove them from Windows startup. Applications such as Spotify and Chrome, are two clear examples of applications that have this happy mania, applications that They are in the background whenever we start our team consuming resources although we are not going to use them. In the case of antivirus applications, its execution at the beginning of our computer is fully justified.

Deleting applications from the start of our computer is as simple as accessing the task manager through the command Ctrl + Alt + Del. Within the Task Manager, we go to the Home tab, select with the mouse the application that we want to deactivate and click on the lower right button.

Install the necessary applications / Delete those that we do not use

Uninstall Windows 10 apps

The worst thing we can do on our computer is install applications without rhyme or reason, without order or concert, for just satiate human curiosity about the possible usefulness of an application. All the applications that we install modify the Windows registry so that the application works correctly.

The problem is found over time, when the number of applications is so high that the team goes crazy looking for so many references to applications that we do not use. In addition, we are taking up valuable space on our hard drive that we can use for other purposes.

To uninstall applications, we must access the Windows settings, Applications> Applications and features. Next, we just have to select which application we want to delete and click on the corresponding button.

Close the applications that we do not use

If we have already stopped using an application and we do not plan to use it again, the best we can do is close it, in order to free up both memory of our equipment and resources. It is useless to keep the application open if we have already stopped working with it.

With this, we will not only make our team work in a more fluid way, but we will also allow the computer to use less virtual memory. Virtual memory is hard disk space that the computer uses when we have run out of RAM.

Delete unnecessary files

Once you arrive from a trip or from an event where your smartphone has been one of the protagonists to immortalize the event, you download the content to your computer to probably share it with your friends or family. So far everything is correct. But once you've shared the content there is no need to keep those images or video on the hard drive. None.

When those images or videos have fulfilled that function, we must move that information to an external hard drive, not only to free up space on our hard drive, but also to avoid losing them in case our equipment stops working for any reason and we are forced to format it.

Defragment your hard drive

Defragment hard drive

Until the release of Windows 10, all previous versions required us to periodically defragment our hard drive, that is, reposition the data in an orderly way on our disk so that they are always as close together as possible and the team takes less time to access them.

With the arrival of Windows 10, it is not necessary to do it on a regular basis, since it is the team itself who is in charge of doing it programmatically. However, it is necessary to do so when we have freed up a large amount of space and we want our computer to run more smoothly without waiting for Windows to do it weekly as it is natively scheduled.

Solid Storage Drives (SSD) do not need to be defragmented since the storage is done digitally and not mechanically like mechanical hard drives (HDD). To access the Defragment application in Windows 10, we just have to type in the Cortana search box Defragment and select the result Defragment and optimize drives. To start defragmentation we just have to click on Optimize.

If even so, the computer is still slow ...

Not everyone has the financial resources to change equipment for a more modern one. Fortunately, let's talk about a laptop or a desktop computer, we can invest a few euros to expand some specifications of our equipment and with which we will achieve a significant leap in performance.

Expand RAM

The more RAM the better. RAM memory should not be confused with storage space. RAM (Random Access Memory) is the storage that the computer uses to run applications on the computer, a storage that is completely eliminated when the computer is turned off.

The hard drive, is the storage space our team has to install applications. That space is never erased when we turn off the equipment, it is only erased when we do it manually. Once we are clear about this aspect that many people confuse, we continue.

Most of the older computers are equipped with 4 GB of RAM, memory that a few years ago was more than enough. However, both applications and operating systems, run smoother and faster when they have more RAM. In this case, we can expand the RAM of our equipment up to 8 GB, at least, for very few euros.

Put an SSD in your life, you will appreciate it

SSD hard drive

Mechanical hard drives (HDD) offer us a much slower reading speed than solid hard drives (SSD). The difference of starting a computer from scratch using an HDD to an SSD it can take several minutes.

In recent years, the price of SSDs has dropped considerably and for about 30 euros we can get a 256 GB SSD. If that space seems insufficient, you can opt for a larger amount of storage, but its price is higher.

Another option is to keep the mechanical HDD of your equipment to store information such as photographs, videos and various documents and use the SSD to install Windows and all applications that we run on our computer, in this way not only will the startup time of our computer be considerably reduced, but also that of the applications that we run.


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