5 ways to speed up your Windows 10 PC

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5 ways to speed up your Windows 10 PC

Windows 10 is a heavily-optimised operating system and boasts better performance across a wider variety of devices than previous versions of Windows.

However, Windows machines have a habit of slowing down over time due to a variety of factors - both software and hardware related.
 
Windows on a mechanical HDD these days is just wrong. An SSD is essential to make it useable.
 
Grouter said:
Windows on a mechanical HDD these days is just wrong. An SSD is essential to make it useable.
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Nonsense. Win 10 works perfectly fine on mechanical HDD's. Slower? Naturally, but still perfectly usable.
 
Whatever OS you use, it requires maintenance

Disk cleanup - once a week
Uninstall unused apps
Find and delete temporary files - use an app like Wise Jet Search to look for *.tmp files and get rid of them
Do not run too many applications at the same time
Have plenty of memory (RAM) 8Gb is ok, 16Gb even better
Avoid free apps that offer to speed up your system
Run a Malware program to look for unwanted apps running in the background

An SSD is nice, but not essential. It makes the initial boot faster
 
OK, if I have to use any OS I'd rather it's on an SSD. How's that?
 
chrisc said:
Whatever OS you use, it requires maintenance

Disk cleanup - once a week
Uninstall unused apps
Find and delete temporary files - use an app like Wise Jet Search to look for *.tmp files and get rid of them
Do not run too many applications at the same time
Have plenty of memory (RAM) 8Gb is ok, 16Gb even better
Avoid free apps that offer to speed up your system
Run a Malware program to look for unwanted apps running in the background

An SSD is nice, but not essential. It makes the initial boot faster
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An SSD affects everything to some degree, not just boot times.

I recommend everyone on Windows uses AVG TuneUp. It's not free although it can be added to an AVG Internet Security purchase quite cheaply. It's on a whole different level compared to other mechanic type software. The space it can free up, among many other functions, simply cannot be done by the Windows utilities. It even finds many gigs of unnecessary backup system files that the idiotic Disk Cleanup refuses to.
 
Missing other options as other pointed out, but this one is a first option.
1. Downgrade to Win7

Win 10 is still not manageable due to the forced upgrades manipulations.
 
sajunky said:
Missing other options as other pointed out, but this one is a first option.
1. Downgrade to Win7

Win 10 is still not manageable due to the forced upgrades manipulations.
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[video=youtube;O2_cVc-8lNU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2_cVc-8lNU[/video]
 
sajunky said:
Missing other options as other pointed out, but this one is a first option.
1. Downgrade to Win7

Win 10 is still not manageable due to the forced upgrades manipulations.
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Many people, myself included, aren't bothered by Windows 10 keeping itself up to date. I'd leave auto update on anyway.

In general it's an awesome operating system.
 
Bryn said:
Many people, myself included, aren't bothered by Windows 10 keeping itself up to date. I'd leave auto update on anyway.

In general it's an awesome operating system.
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And a necessity with the latest hardware.

Win 10 is by far the best Windows OS I've ever used since Windows 95, and I've used them all since the days of Windows 3.1. 95 for me was the most revolutionary. Watched the included videos on the 95 disc my quad speed CD ROM over and over;

[video=youtube;kemivUKb4f4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4[/video]

Played Hover! for hours on end too.
 
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