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How to speed up a Windows 10 home laptop. Disabling visual effects

Windows 10 is the most advanced operating system for personal computers, but it is still not perfect. Much here has not been brought to the point of automation, and there is still room for improvement with your own hands. Among other things, the overall impression of performance is greatly spoiled by Microsoft's policy, which imposes an impressive number of its own services of dubious necessity, which eat up RAM in the background. However, optimizing Windows 10 is not such a difficult task and in a fairly short time you can significantly increase the speed of your computer.

Speeding up your computer

When it comes to interaction with hardware, Windows 10 has no equal here: all optimization processes are implemented in real time. high level and brought to automaticity. The user can only keep the hard drive in order.

Hard drive optimization

Everything written to the hard drive is divided into many sequential fragments to reduce the space taken up. When accessing any of the files, the computer is forced to put them together. The duration of this process significantly affects the system startup time and the delay before opening all applications. You can help Windows optimize this process by doing one of the following:

HDD defragmentation

When information written to a hard drive is broken down into small fragments, they are all arranged taking into account their best position for sequential reading. But after several cycles of recording and deleting information, a well-ordered structure gradually becomes chaotic. The process of re-optimizing this structure is called defragmentation and is recommended to be performed periodically at least once every six months.

To defragment a disk:

SSD optimization

SSDs are based on more advanced and completely different technology than their predecessors. operating room Windows system 10 has several features that can speed up interaction with such drives, but they are not always enabled by default. To do this manually, follow these steps:

Go to “This PC”, select the first volume you like, right-click on it and expand its properties.
Select the first volume you like and expand its properties
Disable defragmentation that is harmful to the SSD. To do this, go to the “Service” tab and open the optimization window.
Go to the “Service” tab and open the optimization window
Now click "Change Settings".
Click "Change Settings"
Uncheck automatic optimization and confirm the changes.
Uncheck automatic optimization and confirm changes
Expand the “General” tab in the volume properties and check the box next to allow indexing. Do the same steps with the remaining volumes.
Expand the General tab and check indexing permission
Right-click on “This PC” and go to its properties.
Right-click on “This PC” and go to its properties
On the left side of the window, open Device Manager.
On the left side of the window, open Device Manager
Expand "Disk Devices", right-click on your memory and go to its properties.
Expand "Disk Devices", right-click on your storage and go to its properties
Open the "Policies" tab, enable record caching and confirm the changes.
Open the "Policies" tab, enable record caching and confirm the changes

Optimizing RAM

The main difference between RAM and main memory is the ability to quickly exchange information. However, in the event of a critical shortage, it is possible to replace it with ordinary storage media, which will work much slower, but will help deceive demanding programs and take on part of the load.

If you have 32-bit operating system(x86), it makes no sense to make the total amount of RAM more than 4 GB.

Swap file

The page file is a section of main memory used as RAM.

Using a page file is only appropriate on solid-state drives (SSDs). In the case of HDD, the influence of the paging file becomes completely invisible.

Initially, its size is determined automatically, but forced expansion is possible:

Open the Start menu and type Control Panel, then press Enter.
Open the Start menu and type Control Panel
Open the "System and Security" section
Go to the “System” subsection.
Go to "System"
Open Advanced System Settings
In the "Advanced" tab, open performance options.
In the "Advanced" tab, open performance options
Go to the new Advanced tab and click Edit.
Go to the new "Advanced" tab and click "Edit"
Uncheck automatic selection and select "Specify size". Set the initial size to one and a half times the recommended size, and the maximum size to three times. Confirm the changes and restart your computer.
Set the initial size to one and a half times the recommended size, and the maximum size to three times

ReadyBoost

Readyboost is a utility that allows you to place a swap file on your flash drive, which should have a more acceptable information exchange speed than an HDD drive. If you have an SSD, it is better to place the page file on the computer's main memory.

Setting up Windows 10 for maximum performance

After optimizing the computer hardware to improve performance, all that remains is to disable everything unnecessary. The lion's share of the computer's resources under Windwos 10 falls precisely on the work of unnecessary processes and meaningless “embellishments”. Just disabling them will help significantly speed up your computer without harming the system.

Disabling startup

When you turn on the computer, you cannot help but notice that at first it slows down, and you have to wait for the device to start working normally. It's not about booting Windows: When you are shown the desktop, the system is already fully up and running. The problem lies in the autostart of programs, the inclusion of which is prescribed to accompany each system startup.

Video: how to disable startup programs

Disabling auto updates

Windows operating systems have never been famous for the meaningfulness of their updates, and with the arrival of the tenth version on the market, the situation has become even more dubious.

The problem here, again, is Microsoft’s intrusive policy, as a result of which, instead of the desired patches and system improvements, users receive weekly updates for unnecessary services and patches for corporate features. Everything would be fine, but downloading updates may start at the most inconvenient moment, making it impossible to use the Internet normally. And after the start of their partial application (some of the updates are installed before rebooting), the drop in performance completely breaks all records.

To disable auto-update, follow these steps:

Through the search, go to gpedit.msc.
Enter the command in the search bar of the Start menu
Follow the path “Computer Configuration” - “Administrative Templates” - “Windows Components” and click on “Center” Windows updates».
Follow the path “Computer Configuration” - “Administrative Templates” - “Windows Components” and click on “Windows Update”
Open "Setup Automatic Updates".
Open "Automatic Update Settings"
Check the “Disable” option, confirm the changes and restart your computer.
Check the “Disable” option, confirm the changes and restart your computer

Video: how to disable auto-updates

Disabling surveillance

Many people have heard about the tracking features of Windows 10, but few people attach any importance to them, other than concern for the safety of personal data.

In fact, the main problem with tracking services is their load on RAM. And the most interesting thing is that the work of surveillance is almost impossible to catch by the hand, since its load on RAM and the processor very skillfully spreads to all other processes, as a result of which many users do not understand where a sudden drop in performance comes from out of the blue.

These actions will not disable Windows tracking completely, but will only minimize its impact on performance:

Go to settings.
Go to settings
Open the "Privacy" section.
Open the "Privacy" section
In the General tab, disable Ad ID and Start tracking.
Disable Ad ID and Start Tracking
Go to the Speech, Handwriting, and Text tab and turn off speech services if they are active.
Disable voice services if they are active
In the “Feedback and Diagnostics” tab, select the main method of data collection, disable the only switch and disable the generation of reviews.
Select your primary data collection method, turn off the only switch, and disable generating reviews
In the Background Applications tab, turn off the main switch.
Turn off the main switch

Video: how to disable surveillance

Disabling visual effects

Windows 10 has a fairly simple and pleasing style. But there is still a certain list of subtle visual “decorations” that can be turned off. This action will not greatly improve the performance of the computer, but the difference in the interface will not be noticeable.

Open the Start menu and type Control Panel. Press Enter.
Open Control Panel via Start
Open the "System and Security" section.
Open System and Security
Go to the "System" section.
Click on "System"
Open Advanced System Settings.
Click on "Advanced system settings"
Click "Options" under "Performance".
Click Options
In the “Visual Effects” tab, uncheck all the boxes except “Output thumbnails instead of icons” and “Smooth out jagged screen fonts.” Confirm the changes.
Uncheck all items except “Output thumbnails instead of icons” and “Smooth out jagged screen fonts”

Cleaning your computer

As mentioned above, before launching any application, game, or the system itself, the computer first reads the information necessary for this from the hard drive, one by one collecting fragmented fragments. And the more junk and debris there is on the computer, the more difficult the path ahead. If you want to make this process easier and speed up the launch of everything, you need to periodically get rid of unnecessary junk, which is a fairly simple task.

Removing garbage

In addition to simply cleaning the desktop and deleting unused programs, it is worth getting rid of files that are actually called “junk”.

Windows 10 has a very specific place for collecting junk and junk files - the Temp folder. There are several really in this folder necessary files, but there are only a few of them, they are not unique and will be re-created on their own in a couple of seconds.

Everything that is in it can be deleted without any regrets and the slightest risk of harming the system:

Open the Start menu and go to Settings.
Open the Start menu and go to Settings
Open temporary files
Check all the boxes and click “Delete files”.
Check all the boxes and click “Delete files”
Go back to the Storage tab and enable Memory Sense to automate the process of deleting temporary files.
Go back to the Storage tab and turn on Storage Sense

Video: how to delete temporary files

Cleaning the registry

The Windows Registry is a general hierarchical database that contains settings for the system and some applications. Due to various circumstances, the registry can become clogged with erroneous information, which not only slows down the computer, but can also have consequences in the form of fatal system errors. Fortunately, you won’t have to clean anything yourself (very difficult even for experienced users), but it will be enough to use the specialized CCleaner program.

Video: how to clean the registry manually and using CCleaner

Programs to speed up games

There are no special ways to optimize the system for games; this is just an invention of inexperienced users. There is only general optimization of Windows, which is described above, but with equal success all of the above methods affect games. There are also no programs that can truly optimize the operating system automatically.

If this approach doesn't suit you, you can try using several specialized applications designed specifically for games. However, it is worth considering that the usefulness of all these applications is quite dubious and, most likely, you will simply load your RAM with an unnecessary process.

The principle of their operation is always the same, and all the benefits can be reduced to the following list:

auto-update of some drivers;
“auto-adjustment” of game settings to the computer hardware;
defragmentation of the folder with the installed game;
stopping some system services while the game is running.

The most reliable applications include the following:

Game Buster;
Game Accelerator;
Game Fire;
Game Gain.

If after installing these applications you do not notice a difference, you can always remove them.

The Windows 10 operating system is not much different in terms of “gluttony” from its predecessors, but this impression is greatly blurred due to its accompanying services, settings enabled by default, and hidden tracking functions. Moreover, the independent optimization of this system and its in-depth development are capable of delivering higher performance than that of previous versions. And to make all this possible, you just need to do a few simple procedures described above and do not forget to carry out timely cleaning and defragmentation of the hard drive.

Whatever version of Windows is installed on the computer, the user will want to configure it in such a way as to get maximum performance. This issue is especially acute for owners of weak hardware, which requires maximum free resources for stable operation.

That's why Windows setup 10 for maximum performance is an excellent priority for them when purchasing new components such as a processor or video card.

Disk Defragmenter

When adding a large number of files to the hard drive, information is not written sequentially, but in fragments on different parts of the disk surface. In this case, fragmentation occurs, and when requesting data, the computer takes longer to process it because it needs to put all the “pieces” together. To minimize such situations, defragment your disk. This is done using standard utilities.

Good to know! In Windows 10, disk defragmentation occurs automatically once a week at a set time. But you can start this process after adding a large amount of information to your computer in order to optimize the disk.

Important! In the "Disk Optimization" window, you can enable/disable and configure automatic defragmentation.

Startup optimization

In many programs, when they are installed on a computer, the function is enabled during system startup. They may not be used by the user, but, working in the background, they take up computer resources, so its work slows down. Applications that you do not use should be disabled or completely removed from your computer if they are not needed.

Alternative options for disabling programs in startup can be seen in the video.

Disabling unnecessary services

Just like startup programs, some Windows services 10 loads computer resources, which leads to slowdowns. Disabling them will increase system performance.

In the Run window, enter the command services.msc.Alternative option: Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services or open System configuration (in the Run window, enter msconfig) and go to the Services tab.
RMB > Properties > Startup Type > Disabled.
When using the Computer Configuration utility, uncheck the required services and save the changes.
Restart your computer.

Video

In the video you can learn more about which Windows 10 services can be disabled and how to do it.

Setting up visual effects

In Windows 10, a lot of PC resources are used to create interface visuals. Disabling some performance parameters (visual effects) will increase the speed of older computers. But they will have less effect on modern gaming PCs.

Disable windows and taskbar adaptation to the desktop background color, as well as Windows animation.

Indexing speeds up the search for files stored on your computer. But this function constantly scans them, monitors changes, and therefore uses system resources.

Important! You should only disable indexing when you are not using search on your computer.

Driver setup

One of the problems with slow operation of Windows 10, which is encountered by a large number of users, is non-original or outdated drivers. This problem is especially relevant for a video card. Look at the driver provider and their version in Device Manager.

Cleaning the Temp folder

The Temp folder in Windows 10 is used to store temporary and intermediate files created by the system and programs. Therefore, to speed up your computer, clean it:

An alternative way is to use the built-in Disk Cleanup utility.

Power settings

By default, Windows 10 is set to Balanced power mode, which reduces processor speed when the device is idle or does not require maximum hardware. To speed things up, set your computer to High Performance power mode.

Cleaning from viruses and malware

If after following the steps above, your PC still slows down and you don’t understand why this is happening, viruses or malware are probably the cause. Check Windows 10 with antivirus programs such as DrWEB Cureit or Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

Conclusion

Settings maximum performance Windows computer will help speed up its work. To do this, you need to disable all visual effects, remove viruses, and also change your PC settings: disable indexing and some services, update drivers.

Good day everyone!

In Windows 10, unlike previous operating systems, a special gaming mode has appeared (it is designed to improve computer performance in games). I note that you can find this “thing” in a version no lower than Windows 10 Creators Update...

Because I quite often receive questions regarding games (and problems with them), I think that a note on how to enable this mode and how to use it would be very helpful. Moreover, in some cases, using the game mode it is possible to increase the number of FPS by 10-15%! (just a few clicks of the mouse (without doing anything else), agree, useful?!).

In addition to this article, I highly recommend reading this one: (it lists the main reasons why games can slow down, even on new powerful PCs).

Now to the point...

Enabling Game Mode

And so, first you need to open Windows settings (you can use START, as in the screenshot below, or you can use the Win+i button combination).

Then go to the "Game Mode" tab. Here you need to check that it is enabled and supported (as in the example below). If you have Windows version 1703 or 1709, then you will have a switch that should be turned on.

Add your game to the list of applications (the "Browse" button), and then set its settings to high performance (example below). This is especially true if you have 2 video cards (integrated and discrete) - this way the game will run on the discrete card.

Well, the last point that needs to be checked and configured is the game menu. By default, the buttons to call this menu Win+G(but you can specify your own). It allows you to enable game mode, take screenshots, record videos, enable broadcasts, etc.

How to use Game Mode

Very simple! Launch some game and press the Win+G button combination (or the ones you specified in the previous step).

You should see a small panel appear at the bottom of the screen. On its right side there will be a button to turn on the game mode - just click on it (number 2 in the screenshot below).

In general, it’s that simple!

Personal notes on whether the game is worth the candle:

The game mode does not always increase the number of FPS (but in general, it has a positive effect: some half-second freezes may disappear during dynamic episodes of the game, for example);
if you have a powerful gaming PC (laptop) and no programs other than the game are running, then the game mode will have virtually no effect on performance;
if you have a budget device (for example, only with an integrated video card), then the game mode can increase the number of FPS by 10-15%;
game mode can significantly speed up the game if you have many processes running, some third-party programs, etc.;
when you exit the game, this mode will be automatically stopped (there is no need to do this manually all the time).

What else to pay attention to:

1) About Turbo Boost

If you have a modern laptop with Intel processor i3, i5, i7 - it does not always work at its full performance. The fact is that in order to save battery power, it is not always used Turbo technology Boost (note: processor self-overclocking*) . To check if it works for you and how to enable it, check out this material:

2) About FPS

To increase the number of FPS in a game, the game mode alone is often not enough. For example, in addition to this, you can configure the video card driver, the game itself accordingly, remove excess garbage from the system (and other actions) - and, as a result, get an increase of 30-40% (sometimes more!).

All these actions are described in the article "How to increase FPS: methods from a gamer" -

Additions on the topic are welcome...

Good game!

Microsoft operating systems in their basic version are aimed at a huge number of users: office workers, gamers, designers and many others. That is why, by default, almost all of the features included in Windows are included in all versions of Windows. Many of them are not needed by a particular user, and they load computer resources, thereby slowing down the speed of the operating system.

It is understandable to want to speed up your computer on Windows 10. The modern operating system is quite demanding on resources, and computers with a small amount of RAM, a low-frequency processor, or without a video card may have difficulty coping with the system and applications. In such a situation, you can update your computer components or speed up Windows operation 10, customizing it “to suit you”. Below we will give tips on how to make Windows 10 work faster on your computer, and you can follow all the recommendations or only some of them, depending on the user’s needs.

Customizing the Start Menu

One of the features of the Windows 8 operating system was “live tiles”, for which a separate screen was allocated. IN Windows versions 10 for PCs eliminated it and moved interactive tiles to the Start menu. They seriously take up resources, but many do not use them. In such a situation, a smart solution would be to disable tiles in the Start menu. To do this, right-click on the tile and select the “Unpin from Start Screen” option.

Disabling visual and sound effects

For the beauty of the operating system, users have to pay for its performance. On weak computers, parallax effects, animation of minimizing and maximizing applications, displaying mouse shadows and many other animation and sound effects can negatively affect the speed of the system. If you are trying to speed up your Windows 10 computer, it is recommended to disable the “extra beauty”:

For all changes to take effect, it is recommended to restart your computer.

Setting up startup programs

Many computer manufacturers install by default a lot of programs that the average user does not need. Not only are they located on the computer, but they are automatically loaded when the computer is turned on. Often in the startup of even weak laptops you can find a huge number of applications from the manufacturer, which is why RAM The computer is constantly loaded to 100%. Disabling unnecessary programs in startup can seriously speed up your computer on Windows 10.

Autoloading is configured as follows:

It is recommended to regularly check the list of programs in startup. Often, when installing another application, users forget to disable the function of its running in the “background” on a regular basis. Thus, when you turn on the computer, various programs for managing peripherals (printers, mice, scanners), applications for downloading data from the Internet (torrent trackers, MediaGet), rarely used additional utilities and much more are automatically loaded. In this case, you can disable almost everything, even Microsoft services that run in the background in Windows 10 by default, for example, OneDrive.

Installing the latest drivers

One of the features of the Windows 10 operating system is the automatic analysis of hardware and installation of drivers for it. Standard drivers from Microsoft are not always updated to the latest version and work perfectly with computer components. This problem is especially common with video cards for which updates are regularly released. software, and must be kept up to date. To ensure that the selected drivers for your video card, CPU, or other computer component are correct, you must:

Windows 10 update

Microsoft constantly releases operating system updates for a reason, and you shouldn’t refuse them. With each update, support for new components is added and the operation of various hardware and applications with Windows 10 is optimized. Operating system updates are downloaded and installed automatically when you restart the computer. If you haven't disabled Windows 10 updates, you don't need to worry about setting them up; otherwise, you'll need to enable them.

Disabling user tracking features

It is widely believed that the Windows 10 operating system monitors user activities by transmitting data to Microsoft. This is true, and several services work to regularly send information about user interactions with the computer to the corporation’s servers. This consumes system resources and Internet traffic, so on weak computers it is better to disable these functions.

To turn off all tracking settings in Windows 10, you will need to click “Start” and select “Settings”, and then go to “Privacy”. After this, disable the following options one by one:

The above are only basic recommendations for setting parameters. Disabling the above options will not in any way affect the operation of the system in terms of convenience. However, if desired, the user can also turn off other settings in the “Privacy” section to prevent Windows 10 from “spying” on him. In particular, you can disable some standard applications, prevent them from using the camera or microphone, and set other settings.

Correctly setting up your antivirus

If you have an antivirus installed on your computer, you need to study its settings and, if necessary, speed up Windows 10, lower the level of protection, or enable only manual scanning of the computer. It would also be a good idea to immediately check your hard drives for viruses.

Important: A common mistake is to install two antiviruses at the same time, which negatively affects not only the performance of the system, but also the security of the computer.

Have not yet acquired a new computer or are using an old device at home to resolve issues related to processing text documents and navigating pages global network? Based system requirements, which a computer must meet in order to run Windows 10, almost any PC released over the last decade will run the new OS. Another question is what this work will be like. We'll deal with him.

Hardware requirements

In order to install and run Windows 10, you need 16-20 GB of space on the system disk, at least 1024 MB of RAM + a swap file twice the size. It’s difficult to find a central processor with a frequency below 1.1 GHz these days, and you shouldn’t install a “ten” on such a computer. Even if the OS starts, performing the simplest calculations even to ensure the operation of a browser or office program on a weak computer will turn into an unbearable burden for a low-power processor.

Fulfill Windows installation 10 on any weak computer with a single-row (or at least multi-threaded) CPU whose clock frequency does not exceed ~2.4 GHz is not worth it. Although “Ten” is the most optimized operating system, technology does not stand still, and 10-year-old hardware cannot cope with the data flows that circulate in the operating system released in 2015.

As for the storage device, then HDD with an IDE interface will only slow down the already lengthy process of loading Windows 10 on an old PC, especially with significant disk fragmentation, a small amount of RAM and the use of a page file.

A video card with a capacity of 64 MB or more will be quite capable of drawing elements of the new tiled interface, if you disable all unnecessary visual effects that heavily load the processor and clog up memory.

Based on official data, almost any computer that supports Windows 7 should be able to handle the “ten” due to the optimization of its code.

Recommendations for working in the tens environment on outdated hardware

After starting an old computer running Windows 10, problems with drivers may arise, which are often solved using the update center or manually searching and installing missing or problematic software.

Despite the official requirements, an old laptop, if its processor operates at a frequency below 2.4 GHz (although this is far from an indicator of its performance), and there is less than 2 GB of RAM installed on board, the “ten” will run, but will be noticed when running most applications braking, especially if it is a multimedia player, browser or heavier software. Therefore, such a computer is only suitable for solving one single task at a time, and it is not recommended to run several programs on it.

Acceleration "tens"

Despite the optimizations in Windows 10, not every processor can handle processing data from multiple applications. To avoid this, it is necessary. To do this, call the “Task Manager” and disable loading unnecessary applications with the operating system.

In the “Services” tab, you can disable unnecessary utilities, but only experienced users should do this, being careful.

To improve performance hard drive you need to defragment the system volume. In the disk properties dialog, go to the “Service” tab, where we click “Optimize”.