60+ and I have got one of these coming soon. tried a few vids for tips/tricks/must do's etc. Mostly 20 year olds machine gunning me with information , drowned out with "music". So well done for explaining the choices and what to do about it.
Thank you, turning off apps or deleting them has saved me a lot of storage. I am glad I saw your TH-cam video. Don’t let the negative comments get to you. For some of us your video was very helpful. 😎
I bought a Toshiba FireTV a couple of years ago and I’ve been grousing about it ever since. It’s bee painfully sluggish and requires frequent restarts. I stumbled onto this video today. I did everything this gentleman suggested (everything I could anyway) and the sluggishness is all cleared up. I’m assuming the need for frequent restarts is too. Thank you so much!!
Hi Richard, I'm new to Amazon Firestick, I didn't really see a need for it, a friend of my told me about all content, sports, movies he can watch which got me interested. He didn't mention any of the info that you talked about in this video; it's very interesting and helpful, Thanx for sharing all of the helpful tips!
I've been helping my elderly neighbor (lol, I'm 65, but she's much older) program her new firestick. I knew a lot of tips and tricks but BECAUSE OF YOU, I learned so MUCH MORE! Thank you for taking your time to film this tutorial! I always come to TH-cam for help. Heck, I reshingled my own roof 2 years ago after 7 days of watching videos. No leaks yet! (but scary as heck on a roof. I was smart and was tied securely- insert my laughter here!)
Braver than me, I'm 66, but if I were 36, you still wouldn't see me up a ladder. I get vertigo standing on a chair. Painting the hallway was a nightmare
Thank you so much! Your clear, thorough communication is wonderful and I greatly appreciate it. The tech world is foreign to me, but you have made it more comfortable to maneuver in. ❤
Thanks Rich! I bought a Firestick Lite to allow me to watch Netflix on my non-smart tv in my craft room. I don't need any extras.. just want basics... so it's nice to be able to turn off all the excess stuff. Will watch your video again when I set my firestick up this coming weekend. Awesome and straight forward video!👍✅️
Had no problems setting up my firestick today.... just took some time. All ready to craft and chill! And thanks to your video... I feel safe doing it.👍✅️
Excellent, thanks. For interest: Getting to the settings icon, from the home screen, can be accessed faster than long pressing the home button by scrolling left instead of right (3 steps).
Heck yeah, thank you. So much stuff running in the background I wasn't even aware of, and I did as you said and it sure made my fire Stick Run a lot better
Thanks to everyone who has watched my recent TH-cam comeback. Due to some copyright issues, I haven't been on the platform since the beginning of the year, and I wasn't sure just what direction to take with the channel. These recent videos are my attempt to reimagine the channel and renew my commitment to giving you the simplest possible solutions to your tech problems. Thanks again for your support over the years, and I look forward to helping you with your tech problems for many years to come!
Richman Knows Tech, Richman Knows how to deceive viewers with lame dishonest clickbait titles and thumbnails. Red WARNING text on thumbnail? Really? You forgot the red arrows?
4:50 - I don't know about everyone else, but I just got a brand new 4K fire stick & in privacy settings 'device usage data, collect app usage data & interest based ads' were ALL preset to off when I got it. 👍
I was looking at fire stick videos and which one to get and your video was a great help and I’d definitely turn everything off but I don’t think I’ll be getting one after you said you’ve gotta leave Credit card details to open an account! I didn’t know that and don’t fancy leaving a credit card. I don’t suppose there is any way around that??? Great video and I’m sure it’s helped lots of people. Keep up the good work. Cheers from uk 🇬🇧
A lot of good information in this video! My original fire stick just died and I'm waiting on delivery of the new one I ordered. I will definitely use a lot of the recommends you provided here! Thanks!
Fastest 12 minutes ever. I could had used this a couple of days ago asi just bought a new Amazon Fire Stick. It's all good though as it's got way more memory. I did turn off all of the settings I wanted off so thank you for that. I might have to look at my old one and see if it's salvageable by deleting apps and forming off all the extra unneeded settings.
Thank you! My movies are playing more smoothly...less buffering. I still have a little bit of it but not like it was before shuting off the junk not needed! I wasn't quite sure what I could turn off!
Richman, Horace Ragin here. I'm retired and I was watching your programme, it was very informative. Thank you for the great tutorial today October,31,2022, thanks, man.
Rick! Great video!! I'm 85 and like to watch some things from my computer, but on my TV. Is there a was to Select a different HDMI port from Firestick. I could always use my old remote, but at 85, I like to keep things as simple as possible. Thanks, again, for an easy explanation for simplifying
Excellent video. I have in the past turned off a lot of similar tracking features, but you took this to another level. Thank you from a new Subscriber!
I'm new to the steaming game and this was very helpful! I got some apps working that weren't doing so before, probably because there was so much stuff that was ON by default. Thanks!
Thank you for the concise video Sir. This reminds of the days of DOS and Win 3.1. You needed to fine tune processes, and modify batch files just to make your PC operate. Win 95/98 did away with many of these issues, but not all, and today's PC runs fine without ever "looking under the hood" so to speak. My point is, I question whether some of these tips really make any difference. The speed and capacity of modern hardware is far beyond our ability to notice a few extra MB of memory being used, or a few extra processes running. However, Amazon's Fire Sticks and Cube definitely do slow down over time and I've found no real way to correct them. This video is indeed an excellent collection of speed tips, but based upon my experience with two such devices, one new and one a few years old used in the same house, I feel there's something else slowing down these devices.
Thanks a lot. I thought I had everything shut off on my fire stick that I could shut off watching your video helped out a lot. Thank you very much. God bless.
Hi Richman, FireStick uses isolated hardware to decode H264 and H265. This means reducing cpu usage has little to no advantage for increasing speed on the device.
@@ModeratelySpeakingthe clock... Such a bother and CPU hog that thing. Who needs the time anyway? Just wasted 12 minutes of my life. Title should say "Best advice for 60yo+ if your offspring can't be bothered"
Hi, I watched your video. It was very informative, and you made it very easy to follow. I was just wondering if you know how I can get rid of the round lights that seem to stay on the tv screen ?
Enjoyed your video. Very helpful. Question - I have 8 tvs in my house. Do I need to repeat these steps on every tv or will my changes be duplicated on all the other tvs?
Would love to see a video on ad blockers that are compatible with Fire stick. Used Blokada in the past, but they have dropped version 4 which worked well. 5 and 6 do NOT work with the Fire stick.
Thank you for the easy to follow instructions. I have a question: I downloaded your app for my FIRESTICK , downloaded HD Stream and having issues with freeze frame. The video plays for a few seconds then pauses for a while and starts again. I’m assuming my internet feed isn’t able to keep up with the HD content. Is there a setting available to change to 720p or even 480p?
Very informative and helpful. We now have one Firestick setup, two more to do. Suggestion, turn off the background music. It is beyond me why TH-cam content creators think is important having background music over their voice. The music quickly becomes extremely annoying. We came to hear you, not hear to fight music thumping in the background. Many folks have hearing difficulties, thus as we concentrate on your voice, we must also concentrate tuning out the music; very frustrating. Truly, the music ruins another wise outstanding video experience. Cordially
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60+ and I have got one of these coming soon. tried a few vids for tips/tricks/must do's etc. Mostly 20 year olds machine gunning me with information , drowned out with "music". So well done for explaining the choices and what to do about it.
Thank you, turning off apps or deleting them has saved me a lot of storage. I am glad I saw your TH-cam video. Don’t let the negative comments get to you. For some of us your video was very helpful. 😎
I really loved how direct and to the point you were in this video. Thanks for important content.
I bought a Toshiba FireTV a couple of years ago and I’ve been grousing about it ever since. It’s bee painfully sluggish and requires frequent restarts.
I stumbled onto this video today. I did everything this gentleman suggested (everything I could anyway) and the sluggishness is all cleared up. I’m assuming the need for frequent restarts is too.
Thank you so much!!
Hi Richard, I'm new to Amazon Firestick, I didn't really see a need for it, a friend of my told me about all content, sports, movies he can watch which got me interested. He didn't mention any of the info that you talked about in this video; it's very interesting and helpful, Thanx for sharing all of the helpful tips!
I've been helping my elderly neighbor (lol, I'm 65, but she's much older) program her new firestick. I knew a lot of tips and tricks but BECAUSE OF YOU, I learned so MUCH MORE! Thank you for taking your time to film this tutorial! I always come to TH-cam for help. Heck, I reshingled my own roof 2 years ago after 7 days of watching videos. No leaks yet! (but scary as heck on a roof. I was smart and was tied securely- insert my laughter here!)
Hello Dawn, I'm in your age group. I've learned so much since I started the firestick about 6 years ago, we guys stick together, happy a great day.
Bless these guys that take time out to teach us simpletons.
@@clif1969 AMEN!
Braver than me, I'm 66, but if I were 36, you still wouldn't see me up a ladder. I get vertigo standing on a chair. Painting the hallway was a nightmare
@Keith Cooper we should create a telegraph channel. People who are willing to assist others who are either new to help users fix new related issues
Great video. I followed along with my remote and you thoroughly explained the whole process. Thanks
Thank you so much! Your clear, thorough communication is wonderful and I greatly appreciate it. The tech world is foreign to me, but you have made it more comfortable to maneuver in. ❤
This was awesome. Thank you for going straight to the point and making it about us.
Thanks Rich! I bought a Firestick Lite to allow me to watch Netflix on my non-smart tv in my craft room. I don't need any extras.. just want basics... so it's nice to be able to turn off all the excess stuff. Will watch your video again when I set my firestick up this coming weekend. Awesome and straight forward video!👍✅️
Had no problems setting up my firestick today.... just took some time. All ready to craft and chill! And thanks to your video... I feel safe doing it.👍✅️
Excellent, thanks.
For interest: Getting to the settings icon, from the home screen, can be accessed faster than long pressing the home button by scrolling left instead of right (3 steps).
2:27 he mentions this
@@sofianikiforova7790 He starts to scroll right. Left gets you to the settings faster.
Straight forward, clear and to the point. Excellent Job.
(BTW, compliments like this are a rarity from me.)
Heck yeah, thank you. So much stuff running in the background I wasn't even aware of, and I did as you said and it sure made my fire Stick Run a lot better
Thanks to everyone who has watched my recent TH-cam comeback. Due to some copyright issues, I haven't been on the platform since the beginning of the year, and I wasn't sure just what direction to take with the channel. These recent videos are my attempt to reimagine the channel and renew my commitment to giving you the simplest possible solutions to your tech problems. Thanks again for your support over the years, and I look forward to helping you with your tech problems for many years to come!
How can I get developer option for my fire stick? Its not in my menu.
You really did help me out so I appreciate it Richman. God bless you and your family. 😇🙏🏾
Richman Knows Tech, Richman Knows how to deceive viewers with lame dishonest clickbait titles and thumbnails. Red WARNING text on thumbnail? Really? You forgot the red arrows?
@@alexthai4957👎
@@alexthai4957 he helped me so...🤔
I've been having a lot of buffering and freezing, I just followed your video completely. I'm praying this helps!
4:50 - I don't know about everyone else, but I just got a brand new 4K fire stick & in privacy settings 'device usage data, collect app usage data & interest based ads' were ALL preset to off when I got it. 👍
This was awesome! I have an older TV and these adjustments made a difference. Thank you!
I knew about the Preferences section but never knew bout the "Settings" part and how much pressing it uses. Appreciate the extra info.
I actually brought a Firestick today and my husband found this, very helpful and will be following all the suggestions. Many thanks.🙂
Thanks!
Thank you so much!
I was looking at fire stick videos and which one to get and your video was a great help and I’d definitely turn everything off but I don’t think I’ll be getting one after you said you’ve gotta leave Credit card details to open an account! I didn’t know that and don’t fancy leaving a credit card. I don’t suppose there is any way around that??? Great video and I’m sure it’s helped lots of people. Keep up the good work. Cheers from uk 🇬🇧
A lot of good information in this video! My original fire stick just died and I'm waiting on delivery of the new one I ordered. I will definitely use a lot of the recommends you provided here! Thanks!
Fastest 12 minutes ever. I could had used this a couple of days ago asi just bought a new Amazon Fire Stick. It's all good though as it's got way more memory. I did turn off all of the settings I wanted off so thank you for that. I might have to look at my old one and see if it's salvageable by deleting apps and forming off all the extra unneeded settings.
You deserve an Oscar for what you do,, I followed you step by step and nobody else could have explained it better,, THANK YOU...
Thanks sooooo much. Wow! That was the most important info I have ever recieved
Great amount of knowledge here, I'm going to put it to use tomorrow. Thank you very much!!
Very helpful, Richman. I thought I knew all the tweaks but found some new ones here. Thanks.
Very helpful and excellently presented. Was able to follow exactly every step. Thanks very much
solid advice brother.. Ive always done these anyway on mine, it helps considerably
Thank you! My movies are playing more smoothly...less buffering. I still have a little bit of it but not like it was before shuting off the junk not needed! I wasn't quite sure what I could turn off!
Richman, Horace Ragin here. I'm retired and I was watching your programme, it was very informative. Thank you for the great tutorial today October,31,2022, thanks, man.
Thanks for all this. You're presentation was clear, concise, and very helpful. Keep 'em coming.
A great easy to understand guide to the Amazon Fire Stick especially the bit about turning OFF the In App purchases.
Fantastic tutorial video, thankyou for sharing your knowledge, much appreciated!👍
I just wanted to thank you for the info! The video is well done/super easy to follow you step by step.
Rick! Great video!! I'm 85 and like to watch some things from my computer, but on my TV. Is there a was to Select a different HDMI port from Firestick. I could always use my old remote, but at 85, I like to keep things as simple as possible. Thanks, again, for an easy explanation for simplifying
Great video. I’ve had this for years and leaned so much. I need to do this to my other TVs.
Straight with no chaser...Love it!!!
I noticed a difference right away. Thanks for sharing!
Incredible tips there! You might want to add an extra one about always using a vpn that has a always on connection protection.
Just got my 1st stick. This is really useful and handy, thanks
Video is excellent, thank you from a first timer user!
Excellent video. I have in the past turned off a lot of similar tracking features, but you took this to another level. Thank you from a new Subscriber!
Greetings from Scotland buddy. Just bought a 4k Max stick & ur vid was of gr8 help. Keep up the good work. 👍
This is useful, even for a tech guy like me. Thanks for taking the time to go through here without any BS.
Wow. This was very helpful. A lot of things I will be turning off.
New to fire stick.
Thanks for the information good to know about this stuff!
This is great, I have not used my fire stick in over a year “ lazy” but now I can get back to it and bring it up to date. Thx
First of all, thank you, that was very helpful. I turned off those settings.
Thanks!
I'm new to the steaming game and this was very helpful! I got some apps working that weren't doing so before, probably because there was so much stuff that was ON by default. Thanks!
You are really new..."steaming" 😉 Auto correct is the bane of the online life
Very very very helpful information!!! I'll be sharing this with a few people that need this information. Thank you and continue to post videos
Thanks Rich. I bought a Fire TV a few days back just for a play and this video has been helpful. 👍
I bought one two weeks ago. How much storage were you given? I noticed mine was a little less than Richman’s amount.
@@chippy7745 It was the Fire TV 4K Max and had 2GB onboard storage. Bought from Amazon AU for AUD$49.
Thank you for the concise video Sir. This reminds of the days of DOS and Win 3.1. You needed to fine tune processes, and modify batch files just to make your PC operate. Win 95/98 did away with many of these issues, but not all, and today's PC runs fine without ever "looking under the hood" so to speak. My point is, I question whether some of these tips really make any difference. The speed and capacity of modern hardware is far beyond our ability to notice a few extra MB of memory being used, or a few extra processes running. However, Amazon's Fire Sticks and Cube definitely do slow down over time and I've found no real way to correct them. This video is indeed an excellent collection of speed tips, but based upon my experience with two such devices, one new and one a few years old used in the same house, I feel there's something else slowing down these devices.
Thanks a lot. I thought I had everything shut off on my fire stick that I could shut off watching your video helped out a lot. Thank you very much. God bless.
Thanks. I had some of that stuff off already but those screensaver and audio and a few others I didn't know. I'll test it out now. Thank a lot.
Hey, thanks a lot for the tips.
I will change the settings on my Fire TV Stick right away. 👍
Many thanks just got a firestick and appreciate the time and trouble you have taken 🎉
Hi I'm new to your channel☺️ Thanks so much Richard!! I just updated all those settings.
Lots of Love from Sydney Australia 💙
This was a great help to me. Thank you
Thank you so much for the help you have given, very much appreciated.
Thanks, Rich. There was a few of them. I forgot to turn off thanks for refreshing my memory. God bless.
Thanks for uploading this valuable information I have just bought a firestick
Hi Richman,
FireStick uses isolated hardware to decode H264 and H265. This means reducing cpu usage has little to no advantage for increasing speed on the device.
Rich was also highlighting the concept of "bothersome" and how to overcome that. Still applicable...
@@ModeratelySpeakingthe clock... Such a bother and CPU hog that thing. Who needs the time anyway? Just wasted 12 minutes of my life. Title should say "Best advice for 60yo+ if your offspring can't be bothered"
@@xiaorulez He's a boomer trying to explain modern tech thinking tech is still like the 1980s LMAO
@@xiaorulez To bad, lost 12 minutes when you could have been kissing yourself in the Mirror
@@casperd2100 He's a boomer with 140K+ subscribers, This boomer respects him. You, well until you can outperform him then what use are you?
Thanks, excellent advice - my cube is considerably faster after following your advice. Much appreciated!
Thank you just learned a lot and gonna share it
Thanks my friend - great job educating most. Just about to get Firestick I will use your guidance.. cheers
Tremendously helpful as I just received my first FireStick..thank you
You’ll enjoy the fire stick. I really enjoy TH-cam like gardening or fixing stuff.
I have 4 tv sticks 2 old and 2 more recent I have managed to speed up all 4 thanks alot for your help and as a 75 year old I had no problems.
Nice work. Just fixed a couple things last night in a new one, but you e shown me 10 more things!
Thank you ❤❤🎉🎉
Thanks My Guy. Great video
Love your channel Richman, great that your back! David 👍
Awsome how-to video! Thanks so much!
Great video 👍 I never knew I could do this so thank you 😎👍
Hi, I watched your video. It was very informative, and you made it very easy to follow. I was just wondering if you know how I can get rid of the round lights that seem to stay on the tv screen ?
@RichmanKnowsTech thanks for your help and for making this video!
Thanks! That was awesome!!
Thanks for a simple way in covering so much yet very effective in many different ways..thanks again
Thank you for your time and video. Keep up the good work.
"IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU THAT MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN"
Enjoyed your video. Very helpful.
Question - I have 8 tvs in my house. Do I need to repeat these steps on every tv or will my changes be duplicated on all the other tvs?
Brilliantly explained and demonstrated,,, thanks 🙏
Thank you your videos are great, I was able to understand you and follow your instructions. Will share with friends.
Thank you for sharing this information! Went thru the steps & now the slow, spinning stopped when trying to watch shows on my fire stick.
Great Video, Great Information. Thanks
I have done everything what you said and wow the thinf really started mocjng faster 🎉🎉🎉
Would love to see a video on ad blockers that are compatible with Fire stick. Used Blokada in the past, but they have dropped version 4 which worked well. 5 and 6 do NOT work with the Fire stick.
Make a pi hole!
Love your instructions very clear
This was EVERYTHING!❤❤
Very well done, there were a few I wasn't aware about. Really helpful tips!
Thank you for the easy to follow instructions. I have a question: I downloaded your app for my FIRESTICK , downloaded HD Stream and having issues with freeze frame. The video plays for a few seconds then pauses for a while and starts again. I’m assuming my internet feed isn’t able to keep up with the HD content. Is there a setting available to change to 720p or even 480p?
Thank you for your info. Great video
Thank you so much for this detailed way to fix the finicky Firestick. It WORKS now thanks to you!!
Thanks Richman, very informative.
Great video. Thank you.
WOW!!!! Thanks for sharing. My Firestick is faster than ever. Great stuff!!! Thanks for sharing. I subscribed too. Keep the videos coming.
Very informative and helpful. We now have one Firestick setup, two more to do.
Suggestion, turn off the background music. It is beyond me why TH-cam content creators think is important having background music over their voice. The music quickly becomes extremely annoying. We came to hear you, not hear to fight music thumping in the background. Many folks have hearing difficulties, thus as we concentrate on your voice, we must also concentrate tuning out the music; very frustrating. Truly, the music ruins another wise outstanding video experience. Cordially
What do you mean? That music is great. Made sweet love to my girlfriend while listening!
😂
Not so much, in my opinion.🎉
Thank You Very Much!! Took all your advice--it all makes sense!
This vid is a homerun from where im standing Rich! 💥🔥🔥🔥 youve earned my sub!