@@joe_3105 no point, it's faster to hold a button then go through settings also some people use the full shutdown along with fast boot for work purposes
To clarify on #1, it's only a partial hibernate. It still closes all your programs but tries to remember which programs you had open and start them again for you. You lose any unsaved work, and many programs don't really pick up where they left off. The only stuff it saves and hibernates is the OS kernel, so it doesn't have to reinitialize all that at boot. #4: If it's really dusty, take it outside to blow it out. I've learned this the hard way. About defrag, if you've run certain "debloater" scripts or disabled background defrag yourself, defrag may still help. And at least if you use the defrag that comes with Windows, it detects SSDs and instead "optimizes" them, which means sending TRIM commands for areas that are free space. This lets the SSD optimize block erasing better. Normally it does this anyway when you delete files but sometimes it gets missed, like if there was corruption or a crash.
Number 6 is like a necessity, since not having the animations actually makes you get stuff done quicker in general (since you dont have to wait for a window to finish the minimise animation etc). I always keep the Show thumbnails, enable peek, drop shadows for icons, but if it's a PC I'm building for someone else I keep the font aliasing, shadows. But all time wasting fading or other animations I turn off.
If your computer reasonably fast - that makes sense. On the other hand, though, if it's slow then the fading in/out animations will mask some of the lags and make it feel smoother.
This is how I've always looked at it for years. Disabling animations may not significantly increase pc performance, but it can still save me time because no useless animations when alt-tabbing and etc. I'm glad I'm not the only one
It's technically faster without animations since it doesn't have to wait after them, but I don't go that far just for milliseconds of speed, it's pretty ridiculous. Especially compared to the time I willingly waste on other things.
Event Viewer is super useful but it's important to learn how to make it even more useful, you should try the filter option on the right hand side and only cholse to show the warning and error messages that way its easy to see what issues are going on quickly instead of scrolling looking for the error messages. Also there is a simpler tool called reliability monitor that can be used to get a quick idea of how stable the computer is and it has a scale and the higher on the scale the better and it will show you some of the error messages in the event viewer and can even let you access the event viewer as well.
In general, you shouldn't have to manually defragment or optimize drives. If a HDD is quite full and you write to it a lot, then a scan once in a while probably would be a good idea to see if it needs to be defragmented.
I'd still recommend MyDefrag, a highly flexible program. OTOH, if you ever need a "defragment daily" plan, something else is wrong, e.g. your PC isn't specced for the task at hand, or your HDD is getting slow because it has to read certain sectors repeatedly (it might fail at any moment). You can even script MyDefrag to work only the directories, since those are read A LOT. That doesn't take long, it uses little of SSD lifetime if you run it on one of those, and can help massively reduce the # of accesses if programs search for a file on the entire HDD -- or during boot-up, since access is slower than during normal operation.
@@achtsekundenfurz7876 MyDefrag has a SSD specific mode the developer wrote a script for to minimize wear that the operations perform since normally the software moves a file twice at least and sometimes more times with failed relocate attempts. Wish it was still developed as it has some bugs that have left me unable to use it at real times of need, some of which the developer claimed were fixed and would be in the next release.
There is an alternative way to do a system "RESET". After doing a fresh install and loading in all the programs and setup everything you will be using do a complete system raw data backup. Save that image file to a seperate internal or external drive. If or when your system starts acting up then do a complete reinstall from the backup image. You will need to do a periodic backup of your personal files to restore them later. This might take a little longer than the other methods, but when you factor in reinstalling all your programs and settings the backup method will be quicker.
@@BakrAli10 There are a number of backup programs available to download or purchase. The one I purchased allows me to do a complete drive backup of all the raw data. When restoring it wipes the drive and restores it according to the saved image. Block by block ,sector by sector. It takes it a lot longer doing it this way but it is 100% complete when done.
This is a good tip in general. Backup programs can be set to easily automate daily backups (periodic full, then daily sequential or differential). Save to another hard drive, PC, or network drive. For maximum virus protection, keep a copy or 2 on a thumbdrive, since some viruses will delete backups from network drives. You can also browse snapshots in case you accidentally delete a file but don't need a full restore.
SOME of that was possible as early as 1995. Back then, Drivespace was popular, which kept all contents of a "logical drive" in a container file. You could make a copy of that container file, possibly even on HDD if you had the space. Broken system? Just reverse the copy at the DOS prompt (after using attrib to remove the attributes). Really fast, esp. for _that one user_ who bricked their OS at least once a month.
Good software tips, but sometimes it’s a hardware problem with the HDD/SSD itself. If possible change it and test again. And additional to your software tips: Check system health files with dism and sfc Chkdsk /f the main drive (after backup, which you must have anyway) And have a look into safe mode, if it’s running fast there. Then probably it’s a software issue.
Thanks for mentioning the dust problem. I had a laptop that would no longer power on. I removed the bottom cover and found that the fan was full of dirt and dust. I cleaned that as well as the CPU heat sink, and it started up fine.
That power plan part can be a bit counterproductive though. I'm running a custom x99 build with a xeon e5-2698v3 and it's been all-core boost modded and undervolted and when I set my power plan to high performance i do get a little more out of it according to the built in benchmark in cpu-z, but at the same time it also drops my single core performance by almost 60 points. I can't say if that is something that is common or if it's just some byprodct of my janky setup but it's something that I have noticed.
win + R perfmon /rel better way than scrolling through eventviewer, or you can create filters to only show critical and errors in eventviewer, reliability monitor shows different info than eventviewer though, I use them both complimentary
On modern computers, lowering max frequency slightly won't generally make a huge difference for general tasks. I set my laptop, which is a basic dual core from like 4 years ago to like 80% to improve battery, and reduce fan noise. You can set different profiles if plugged in or not, and also create a shortcut (also keyboard shortcut) to make switching easy. If playing games or other intense tasks, I would leave on balanced though. You can also do this on Android, I set my S10 to throttle to 70%, and I don't notice any slowdown, even in games. Due to the way power scaling works on CPUs, throttling CPU even a little bit will have huge impact on power usage.
Actually on modern computers, lowering max frequency only a little may make a huge difference but in an unintended way. Dealt with a customer claiming computer wasn't running various games as well as they thought it should. Windows was set to throttle the CPU to 95% of the max capability in one of those power management windows and the result is the CPU never exceeded 1/2 the rated clockspeed. This was a lot more than a 4 year old basic dual core desktop computer with the issue.
the power tip + dust tip, if people make it so their cpu is running at max speed at all times and don't do the dust clean up, it can make thermal throttling worse and actually slow down the computer even more.
About the tip 3, I actually keep some unallocated space on my SSD so that even if I reach full, there will be still some physical space left on the drive.
I never understood how that works, but I've long noticed that some programs that deal with partitions leave some small unallocated space if you put an "optimize for SSD" option enabled.
How about explaining how to reduce the logging that Windows does? This will also make the ssd live longer, in the typical case where the ssd is the Windows system drive, which is the default location for storage of Windows logs. On my pc, most of the writing to my ssd is by Windows loggers.
The Defrag software on Windows actually recognize if it's an HDD or SSD. If it's an SSD it will do TRIM instead of defrag. That might actually help the SSD.
Disk Fragmentation worked very well for my laptop which had Intel i3 6th gen processor. So first I removed the files and games and apps that I didn't use and also chrome bcs it always crashed then I increased the C drive partition, also disabled the startup apps and turn off animations but all these did somewhat good but then I performed the defragment the hard disk and now it is running smoothly.
8:00 exactly the same as WinDirStat. 14:00 No, it does not defrag HDD automatically unless it is scheduled, i checked recently and HDD was 30% fragmented after analyzing, so i manually defrag HDD. And IT IS important, if we use HDD non-stop with filing data, deleting data, it tends to get fragmented.
Thank you. This video prompted me to have a deeper look at event viewer to figure out why my computer was taking 5+ minutes to shut down. Turned out it was the service for my VPN not responding. Threw together a batch file scheduled to force close it and now shutdown takes about 90 seconds.
I've got an i5 9400k cpu with a 1080ti geforce gpu and 32gb ram. My pc shuts down in 10 seconds sometimes quicker. Why is it acceptable to have a minute abd a half.. I'm actually getting a 3090 rtx in a few months.. everyone should get ab upgrade every 2 years really
@@lewys9204 It's not something I'd payed much attention to until recently but I'm not sure I recall any desktop computer I've owned taking less than a minute to shut down. Perhaps there's more investigating to do. I'd say the time for an upgrade depends entirely on what you've bought and what you want out of it. I ran a 970 for five years and I'll be fine with my 3070 build until it can no longer run current games at 1440p over 60fps.
As a technician I appreciate the inclusion of the myths. There are so many customers that have programs like CCleaner installed. As for reformatting a PC,(Or rather troubleshooting) here are some best practices: Always have two USB-Sticks. One Windows PE Stick, which has a low spec Windows where you can boot from the stick and check stuff on your computer, I often use it as a fast way to see if the Windows the customer just killed is just a killed windows or actually something else, and if I am still able to easily access the personal data. The other Stick is a Windows Boot Stick, which you can create by downloading the "Media creation tool", a tool from Microsoft which you can find by just googleing it. You can update your current system, even over several different big patches, or create a boot stick with the other promt inside the program. ALWAYS have a backup. Losing your steam games is annoying and cost intensive depending on your internet speed, but losing the pictures of your baby, a marriage or a dead relative hits quite differently. Use another Stick or drive, maybe even several methods with a cloud or something, and store your drives somewhere else in case of a fire. And a bonus tip: Simply take a picture of your installed programs, you can find a pretty compact list under System control -> uninstall programs. Use a secure way to store your passwords, like a password manager. You wont lose any passwords and have to rumble around in your brain. Aside from that you dont need much to get your system running again.... Be prepared.
Event viewer one is important. My comp suddenly slowed down and turned out an Intel NUC process crashing every 3 seconds and restarting. Found the error in EW and uninstalled it.
Reset is a great saviour for windows 10. It saved my PC that had serious issues and this reset worked very well and had impressive stability benefits!!!
Technically a computer should restart at least once a month on patch Tuesday when the computer updates the system. Those errors and warnings are what scammers use to trick the suckers into thinking their computers are messed up. If you go to blow the dust out, make sure you hold the fan so it doesn't overspeed and destroy itself. And another thing that can happen is if it is spun too fast is it can actually generate a small amount of energy and fry components on the motherboard.
small amount of energy? current from it pugged into a header maybe but why would you be cleaning a fan still connected to a mb anyway? worst case you'd destroy the if you were doing something like i have seen some one use industrial strength grade air blower to clean a fan and well that resulted in the fan blades flying out, and i mean completely detached from the frame and it impaled his motherboard like piece a shrapnel and destroyed it
I discovered recently what had been slowing down my computer as I'm studying art we are all encouraged to have creative cloud installed on our computers (all in one pc for me) and it kept crashing in the background without letting me know or even being opened , solution is task manager and manually force shuting creative cloud and then suddenly my pc tends to run better
Also do not forget adjusting your swap space as Windows tends to still use a ton of swap even when you have ample RAM not getting used. Switch it to a range between 50mb and whatever your ram is.. say 8192 or something. Loading up is a little slower but afterwards, no more hard drive light constantly running and snappy application load times.
1:38 Man I had my old PC in a box, not powered for like 5 months. It had like 144 days set on the task manager when I plugged and powered it. That means my pc doesn't need electricity to run? It's 12 years old btw
I'd say registry cleaner is not likely to matter but could. If it matters much then you should probably consider a fresh install anyways. Many registry cleaners don't clean much and the few that try to clean a lot often end up being the ones that cause problems. One of the worst I more recently recall was a 4th gen Intel i-series processor and booted form a solid state drive had minutes added to bootup before it was in a usable state where things lock up while you wait through it and sometimes unusually slow operations after. No registry cleaner I am aware of targeted that registry debris and using the typical Windows GUI to clean things up by not touching the registry directly would have been many hours of work as each delete was requested by a series of mouse clicks and followed by a very long pause until the 100% unneeded entries were cleared out. Defragmentation 'may' run in the background, but did it? Often I dealt with family and customer computers where background tasks never run due to computer off at the wrong time, process issue, etc. If you have a solid state drive, it is rare that you have a valid reason to 'need' to defragment it but there are reasons. If you are not sure that you need to do it, then you don't have such a need. Windows has replaced defragment with the trim operation in modern versions if it determines it is a SSD. I still keep MyDefrag around for times of need, but those times are rare enough I always wonder if it is still working at that point. Event viewer showing WHEA warnings/errors in logs may be fixable if you have an overclock to throttle back, get lucky with a driver update, or get lucky with adjusting settings on the related device. Beyond that, its often connected to the more obscure glitches, crashes, and performance issues that computers have. It can be other components like RAM, wifi, external device, etc. but often seems to be CPU or(/and, for many systems solder them together) motherboard needing to be replaced. If you are lucky, you may be increasing performance instead of fixing such glitches that are horrible to work with. If you see much of that in the logs and the computer still has a warranty, make sure to get it in and resolved while the warranty is valid as CPU/motherboard isn't something you want to deal with outside warranty and such log entries should not happen from a properly running system and the issue may further degrade.
Even if you disabled them, they still can run in the background. Try looking in the program for auto start and disable it from there, and if it helps, go to services and stop it from there as well because auto start does not list everything that autostarts at startup.
I actually recently turned off fast startup on my main computer, because every now and then, it for some reason doesn't start my GoXLR service which I need for sound, which meant I had to open the service manually (which is simple because it's right on my start menu). My computer doesn't feel any slower starting up though, so there's no real loss here. Also, you know how there's a special thing that happens if you hold SHIFT when clicking restart? I wonder if holding SHIFT when hitting shut down would actually force a full shut down.
You know what I found more than once? A user shows me their new PC that they bought 6 months ago and that has slowed down. The reason: they bought an Antivirus and installed it - but they didn't uninstall the AV that came with it. So they have for example McAfee plus GDATA running at the same time...
I once had a laptop that was always running quite slowly. Nothing I tried would speed it up. I can't remember how I came about the information, but I found out that my CPU was being throttled all the time. In the end, it turns out that the power supply that came with the laptop was insufficient. They sent me a 95 watt power supply, but the CPU required 135 watts to run at full speed. I bought a new power supply, and suddenly enjoyed double frame rates in all of my games. You would think a manufacturer would send the proper parts, but it's not always the case, and could be a reason for unsatisfactory performance that is not obvious or easy to figure out.
inn the advanced tab of the performance options you can set the pagefile, setting it to a specific amount instead of a range can help improve performance on older pc's, I usually have it set to the same amount of ram that's in the computer
Good video. Can you make a video how to configure Windows with SSD so that SSD will last longer? For example, make sure that Trim option is active, disable defragment in Task Scheduler... I had HDD in my PC then I clone everything to SSD and just continue using it. Then I saw somewhere on internet that for SSD some settings in Windows needs to be disabled but I forgot what exactly.
10:55 I noticed this one back in 2009 with Windows... I had to format because after resetting the virus was still being caught by Norton and yet still wreaking havoc with my web browser usage.
I actually used registry cleaners and they only did damage but installing windows 11 22h2 fixed that since it rewritted the files. Never going to use a registry cleaner ever again I learned from my mistakes
Everybody says that registry cleaners doesn't help, (which is true in most cases) but it actually helped me once when my dad's computer took like 20 seconds to open the context menu. He was installing and uninstalling a lot of programs often so i guess there was some entries that pointed to something that didn't exist anymore.
An addendum to the power plan, you'll actually want to keep it on Balanced and not High Performance for Intel Little-Big Architecture chips as well as those AMD Ryzen X3D chips that don't have 3D Cache on all cores for them to perform best.
Not a bad video it’s very informative and would help new users of computers to speed up their systems. Btw I know quite a lot about computer repair and re installs etc.
I would suggest deleting power plans you don't use. My pc had a habit of always switching back to balanced so I went into command prompt and nuked everything that wasn't what I wanted.
this was something i found on my own desktop system, it surprised me that the reset button doesn't do a full restart. i don't recall windows XP Pro corporate doing this. right now showing 29 days when i used reset a few days ago. 29 days ago my power was out for a few hours. doing a reset on the computer will remove your installed programs but it does leave your files alone, including new text docs and new folders that are on the desktop screen.
I always hit Restart as opposed to Shut Down because restarting is faster than shutting down and booting up. Edit: Also, I used the Event Viewer when my Windows bluescreened once a day for a month. I checked and it was Critical Errors and regular errors once a minute.
If the uptime is more than a month, that also mean no monthly update, meaning that auto update have been disabled. That's a major bad thing. One totally harmless and normal error is the page fault. That's virtual memory at work. It happen when something wants to access something that have been pushed to the pagefile.sys and removed from main memory.
one of the best ways to fix bugs on widows that is more efficient than restart/update and also fixes most registry issues and all is to use the windows disk image tool and create a disk image but instead of saving it to a usb save it on the PC and install it from there. Weirdly this solves wayyy more bugs than normal updating restarting etc. This has solved issues for me that even the ms support couldn‘t. Oddly enough it only works with the disk image not by updating normally with the disk image tool. It has no data loss and preserves settings and it‘s surprisingly unknown amongst my tech savvy peers. My most recent issue i fixed that way was the file explorer not refreshing folders automatically. And after long ms support calls restarts, updates, … - i remembered this trick and it worked. This helped me so often and it‘s weird how little people are aware of it.
I had this issue two days ago websites would not connect right the machine went to reset twice trying to do something after it started , i went into edge and there was a window that mentioned drivers so i clicked on it and i could repair it, it works so far , i will check the event viewer to see what happened !
Restart or: Step 1: Open the Windows Settings app (Windows + I keys). Step 2: Select 'Network & internet' from the sidebar. Step 3: Select System and open Troubleshoot. Step 4: Open Other troubleshooters. Step 5: Run the Network adapter troubleshooter, and you are good to go.
you can also disable programs that powers up the same time that windows is booting you can do it witch cc cleaner of just with the task manager from windows.
One of the first things I do when a computer feels slow, is checking what is currently running in task manager. Sysinternals provides an enhanced task manager (Process Explorer) which shows how much cumulative time each process has taken (under the column "CPU Time"). This enables to quickly find time-consuming processes even if you don't catch them right at the moment you are looking. Of course, this is just a start, as you have then to figure out how critical the process is, how to disable it, etc.
system informer is a tool you'll like, if you haven't tried it already it. Have you open task manager and wanted to just look at what's running or trying to find something specific but with them constantly moving find it irritating? holding control while viewing the processes completely negates this and they will not budge until you stop pressing it. didn't know that for the longest time.
@@zeiky37 the windows stock task manager has this feature? Not surprising but didn't know this either.the taskmaster doesn't show everything, or give you full control to end stop or delete things, so I usually so this with autoruns process explorer etc
@@τετέλεστα I was talking about process explorer, but I think you can sort by any column field in the standard version. usually I set process explorer to replace task manager so I tend to forget how the standard version works ;)
I have a question How "reset windows without keeping files" will work? Is it just cleaning windows drive (c)? Or it will delete every files in every drives?
8. If you don't have windows installed on an SSD get and SSD, it makes a HUGE diffrence, with a hard drive it takes like 5 minutes to boot and programs take minutes to start, with an ssd it just takes a few seconds.
Actually useful tips, Ive seen a few of these videos, and they always do stuff that was outdated by win98. A lot of Scammers get you to look in the Event Viewer, and tell you those Warnings and Errors are the worst thing ever, and they need to be paid to fix it, I had once, and when I told the guy I was fine with them, he freaked out and went crazo on me on the phone, so I hung up, Id never had one of those scammers before, so I was playing along to see what he wanted to do,.
All great advice, though I have to disagree to a degree about the registry cleaner. I had a PC that general performance was ok but context menus was very slow - the menus when you right click on a file, etc. Running a registry cleaner cleared it up. In general, you are correct in that they won't make much of a difference but there are certain circumstances where doing this task can make a world of difference.
So that's not exactly what is meant by a registry cleaner but I think I understand what you are saying. What basically happened in your case is that a program inserted an entry into the context menu and whenever you open the context menu that program or some part of it activated and it was slowing down the pc. I have had this too and disabled the offending program and the speed was back to normal. There is another issue with registry cleaners in that they might delete something important because the registry cleaner didn't understand what the entry was. You have to be super careful with them.
@@jackkraken3888 I understand that. Nothing was added to the context menu. But it did take upwards of 30 seconds to come up. In addition the pc would essentially lock up for no apparent reason and otherwise just didn't perform well. When I ran a registry cleaner it became instantaneous and the computer no longer locked up and performance greatly improved. In short, something corrupted the registry. The registry cleaner got rid of the offending entries... All that to say.. the registry can cause performance problems. In that event a registry cleaner will clear it up.
@@jackkraken3888 it's a similar problem. I'm guessing that I uninstalled a program and the uninstaller didn't properly deal with the registry. I don't know that... But it's along the same line. In your case it was a misbehaving program. In my case it was forever searching. The disk was always churning
about reset it's not deleting program but just delete and reinstall basic program on data C if you chose to keep your file, so if you keep your file on data C then say goodbye to it. it's best to make multiple partition and separate 3rd party program or data from windows program/data
@ ThioJoe - Question: Looking for a solution. While using browser, usually Firefox, and after 2nd or third link connection I suddenly can't connect "no Internet" but I do still have internet as a quick ping test, from cmd line, shows. This happens to both my Gaming desktop, connected with cat 6e to my router, and my wife's laptop connected using Wi-Fi.
I use razer cortex for cleaning background apps, it usually cleans 1 to 2 GB of ram each time. (tested to see if it's real or just numbers and it is real).
Registry cleaning hasn't been needed since like, windows XP. Also, defragging Hard drives is still a thing for those with actual HDD. While Windows does try to defrag things, it does that as a background process that is frequently interrupted. If you aren't leaving your computer idle for hours at a time, you can still get some noticeable benefit from a defrag every now and then, but it's usually a 'per program' benefit, not a 'whole system' one. It's mainly useful for gamers, who might be updating or modifying/moving files and game installs on a regular basis, creating abnormally high fragmentation that windows might not deal with so well.
I use CCleaner when a client says the computer is slow. I clean up cache, cookies, temp files, etc. and perform a registry cleanup. They are usually pleased with the result.
why anyone still uses a HDD when even the best nvme gen4 m.2 ssds are $90 for a Tb $130 for 2 is beyond me and go on sale frequently. The slowest sata ssd smokes the fastest platter drive even using something like raid to increase its seq read/writes.
@@τετέλεσταBecause for around half that 140 dollars you can get a 4TB HDD to use as a mass storage volume for things that aren't high filesize games (like photos, video, music, or just smaller or older games that aren't read/write intensive. Some older games actually screw up on SSDs for whatever reason. They don't load properly from them), or as a temp storage for high filesize games so you don't have to redownload them later, but also aren't left with a single game eating over a 10th of a drive. Especially given that most mobos have far more SATA ports than they do NVME slots, let alone PCIE bandwidth to let them actually max out.
@@jtnachos16 well the new MB have tons of m.2 drive slots and get plenty bandwidth from better placement of the m.2 slots but you can also get get almost as much at least half - 2 thirds of 4tb nvme drives i was naming the best preforming drive prices not to mention sata ssd prices. but i didn't know they behaved this way with older games. yeah older motherboards had generally maybe 1-3 slots max and bandwidth was a "problem" in the sense not all ur drives are getting the advertised speeds which still are were very fast bottlenecked but regardless but your are right.
if you talk about the page file it should be managed by your system because page file is slow so don't change that. If you talk about graphics card memory you can only do that with intel graphic cardand there is a way but that's not gonna make a real difference in games it will probably only cause problems and you can still run games even if they same they don't have minumum requirements
joe what do i do i have a lappy that is windows 11 and my staff at my group home put it in child mode even tho i am 34 years old and thay made a account that idk the pin for so can u tell me how to get out of child mode and make a new user i cant even make a new account
Context menu to me is slow to show up and even crashing Explorer. The registry is the only place where it is possible to disable some menu items without uninstalling programs.
Yeah, I agree with a number of them, but really disagree with a few and have some more advice of my own. Checking for startup apps is a good one to start with. Resources like RAM are one of the important factors here. Adding more RAM might help, but I see if that's out of scope for this video. The most important setting in the _animations_ part is *transparency* because this puts a continuous load on the CPU (think of a low-end device with a slow CPU and no GPU). Cleaning up and fully defragmenting an old hard disk drive really does work! Try running basic Windows defrag and then look what a program like Defraggler can do after that. Also, Power plan not only can be good for the battery, but also helps keeping the internal temperature down.
don't forget to turn on that RGB to give your pc a slight increase in performance
True that
Or blue= better cooling, red= faster speed, green= more eco friendly/pc uses less power
@@joey.99 works
That RGB for *That Extra FPS*
Ya I gain about 5 fps with my rgb activated
Tip 1: You can hold Shift key while clicking Shut Down. That will skip fast-startup and shut down the system.
Same for restart will go to advanced settings
Edit: omg ty for the likes
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just disable fast start up bruh
Or just mess around in the Control Panel to disable fast startup
@@joe_3105 no point, it's faster to hold a button then go through settings also some people use the full shutdown along with fast boot for work purposes
To clarify on #1, it's only a partial hibernate. It still closes all your programs but tries to remember which programs you had open and start them again for you. You lose any unsaved work, and many programs don't really pick up where they left off. The only stuff it saves and hibernates is the OS kernel, so it doesn't have to reinitialize all that at boot.
#4: If it's really dusty, take it outside to blow it out. I've learned this the hard way.
About defrag, if you've run certain "debloater" scripts or disabled background defrag yourself, defrag may still help. And at least if you use the defrag that comes with Windows, it detects SSDs and instead "optimizes" them, which means sending TRIM commands for areas that are free space. This lets the SSD optimize block erasing better. Normally it does this anyway when you delete files but sometimes it gets missed, like if there was corruption or a crash.
1:25 u can also shift click shut down
Good to know
For tip 1 you can actually hold Shift key so system skips fast startup. Or you can just switch it off in power managment settings.
Number 6 is like a necessity, since not having the animations actually makes you get stuff done quicker in general (since you dont have to wait for a window to finish the minimise animation etc).
I always keep the Show thumbnails, enable peek, drop shadows for icons, but if it's a PC I'm building for someone else I keep the font aliasing, shadows.
But all time wasting fading or other animations I turn off.
If your computer reasonably fast - that makes sense. On the other hand, though, if it's slow then the fading in/out animations will mask some of the lags and make it feel smoother.
@@sergiuc7684 the animations add unnecessary wait time between actions. Just get rid of them lol, then everything feels snappy and instant.
in KDE land, I also disable animations. Changing virtual desktops with a slide animation gave me motion sickness lol
This is how I've always looked at it for years. Disabling animations may not significantly increase pc performance, but it can still save me time because no useless animations when alt-tabbing and etc. I'm glad I'm not the only one
It's technically faster without animations since it doesn't have to wait after them, but I don't go that far just for milliseconds of speed, it's pretty ridiculous. Especially compared to the time I willingly waste on other things.
Event Viewer is super useful but it's important to learn how to make it even more useful, you should try the filter option on the right hand side and only cholse to show the warning and error messages that way its easy to see what issues are going on quickly instead of scrolling looking for the error messages. Also there is a simpler tool called reliability monitor that can be used to get a quick idea of how stable the computer is and it has a scale and the higher on the scale the better and it will show you some of the error messages in the event viewer and can even let you access the event viewer as well.
All you have to do is look for the red ones ddddooooyyyy!
In general, you shouldn't have to manually defragment or optimize drives. If a HDD is quite full and you write to it a lot, then a scan once in a while probably would be a good idea to see if it needs to be defragmented.
I'd still recommend MyDefrag, a highly flexible program. OTOH, if you ever need a "defragment daily" plan, something else is wrong, e.g. your PC isn't specced for the task at hand, or your HDD is getting slow because it has to read certain sectors repeatedly (it might fail at any moment). You can even script MyDefrag to work only the directories, since those are read A LOT. That doesn't take long, it uses little of SSD lifetime if you run it on one of those, and can help massively reduce the # of accesses if programs search for a file on the entire HDD -- or during boot-up, since access is slower than during normal operation.
@@achtsekundenfurz7876 MyDefrag has a SSD specific mode the developer wrote a script for to minimize wear that the operations perform since normally the software moves a file twice at least and sometimes more times with failed relocate attempts. Wish it was still developed as it has some bugs that have left me unable to use it at real times of need, some of which the developer claimed were fixed and would be in the next release.
@@achtsekundenfurz7876 why are you not using an nvme m.2 ssd?
There is an alternative way to do a system "RESET". After doing a fresh install and loading in all the programs and setup everything you will be using do a complete system raw data backup. Save that image file to a seperate internal or external drive. If or when your system starts acting up then do a complete reinstall from the backup image. You will need to do a periodic backup of your personal files to restore them later. This might take a little longer than the other methods, but when you factor in reinstalling all your programs and settings the backup method will be quicker.
How do you do a “complete system raw data backup”?
@@BakrAli10 There are a number of backup programs available to download or purchase. The one I purchased allows me to do a complete drive backup of all the raw data. When restoring it wipes the drive and restores it according to the saved image. Block by block ,sector by sector. It takes it a lot longer doing it this way but it is 100% complete when done.
I highly recommend this, I've been doing it for almost 10 years
This is a good tip in general. Backup programs can be set to easily automate daily backups (periodic full, then daily sequential or differential). Save to another hard drive, PC, or network drive. For maximum virus protection, keep a copy or 2 on a thumbdrive, since some viruses will delete backups from network drives. You can also browse snapshots in case you accidentally delete a file but don't need a full restore.
SOME of that was possible as early as 1995. Back then, Drivespace was popular, which kept all contents of a "logical drive" in a container file. You could make a copy of that container file, possibly even on HDD if you had the space. Broken system? Just reverse the copy at the DOS prompt (after using attrib to remove the attributes). Really fast, esp. for _that one user_ who bricked their OS at least once a month.
Good software tips, but sometimes it’s a hardware problem with the HDD/SSD itself. If possible change it and test again.
And additional to your software tips:
Check system health files with dism and sfc
Chkdsk /f the main drive (after backup, which you must have anyway)
And have a look into safe mode, if it’s running fast there. Then probably it’s a software issue.
Thanks for mentioning the dust problem. I had a laptop that would no longer power on. I removed the bottom cover and found that the fan was full of dirt and dust. I cleaned that as well as the CPU heat sink, and it started up fine.
That power plan part can be a bit counterproductive though. I'm running a custom x99 build with a xeon e5-2698v3 and it's been all-core boost modded and undervolted and when I set my power plan to high performance i do get a little more out of it according to the built in benchmark in cpu-z, but at the same time it also drops my single core performance by almost 60 points. I can't say if that is something that is common or if it's just some byprodct of my janky setup but it's something that I have noticed.
win + R
perfmon /rel
better way than scrolling through eventviewer, or you can create filters to only show critical and errors in eventviewer, reliability monitor shows different info than eventviewer though, I use them both complimentary
thats a nice tip
On modern computers, lowering max frequency slightly won't generally make a huge difference for general tasks. I set my laptop, which is a basic dual core from like 4 years ago to like 80% to improve battery, and reduce fan noise. You can set different profiles if plugged in or not, and also create a shortcut (also keyboard shortcut) to make switching easy. If playing games or other intense tasks, I would leave on balanced though. You can also do this on Android, I set my S10 to throttle to 70%, and I don't notice any slowdown, even in games. Due to the way power scaling works on CPUs, throttling CPU even a little bit will have huge impact on power usage.
Actually on modern computers, lowering max frequency only a little may make a huge difference but in an unintended way. Dealt with a customer claiming computer wasn't running various games as well as they thought it should. Windows was set to throttle the CPU to 95% of the max capability in one of those power management windows and the result is the CPU never exceeded 1/2 the rated clockspeed. This was a lot more than a 4 year old basic dual core desktop computer with the issue.
the power tip + dust tip, if people make it so their cpu is running at max speed at all times and don't do the dust clean up, it can make thermal throttling worse and actually slow down the computer even more.
About the tip 3, I actually keep some unallocated space on my SSD so that even if I reach full, there will be still some physical space left on the drive.
I never understood how that works, but I've long noticed that some programs that deal with partitions leave some small unallocated space if you put an "optimize for SSD" option enabled.
@Redashxbox It's not full constantly at all, it's just that there's that unallocated space.
How about explaining how to reduce the logging that Windows does? This will also make the ssd live longer, in the typical case where the ssd is the Windows system drive, which is the default location for storage of Windows logs. On my pc, most of the writing to my ssd is by Windows loggers.
The Defrag software on Windows actually recognize if it's an HDD or SSD.
If it's an SSD it will do TRIM instead of defrag. That might actually help the SSD.
You make some really informative videos bro. I appreciate the knowledge and the work u put in to these productions👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks for clearing up some performance myths for me. 😁
Disk Fragmentation worked very well for my laptop which had Intel i3 6th gen processor. So first I removed the files and games and apps that I didn't use and also chrome bcs it always crashed then I increased the C drive partition, also disabled the startup apps and turn off animations but all these did somewhat good but then I performed the defragment the hard disk and now it is running smoothly.
8:00 exactly the same as WinDirStat. 14:00 No, it does not defrag HDD automatically unless it is scheduled, i checked recently and HDD was 30% fragmented after analyzing, so i manually defrag HDD. And IT IS important, if we use HDD non-stop with filing data, deleting data, it tends to get fragmented.
Thanks. WizTree really helped me identify what I could move. Really helped.
Great video as always, comes in handy as I was just looking to speed up my laptop
Thank you. This video prompted me to have a deeper look at event viewer to figure out why my computer was taking 5+ minutes to shut down. Turned out it was the service for my VPN not responding. Threw together a batch file scheduled to force close it and now shutdown takes about 90 seconds.
I've got an i5 9400k cpu with a 1080ti geforce gpu and 32gb ram.
My pc shuts down in 10 seconds sometimes quicker. Why is it acceptable to have a minute abd a half.. I'm actually getting a 3090 rtx in a few months.. everyone should get ab upgrade every 2 years really
@@lewys9204 It's not something I'd payed much attention to until recently but I'm not sure I recall any desktop computer I've owned taking less than a minute to shut down. Perhaps there's more investigating to do.
I'd say the time for an upgrade depends entirely on what you've bought and what you want out of it. I ran a 970 for five years and I'll be fine with my 3070 build until it can no longer run current games at 1440p over 60fps.
Thanks for the wiztree tip, apparently I was making 15 min videos when I wanted screenshots in afterburner while I was gaming. All fixed now.
As a technician I appreciate the inclusion of the myths. There are so many customers that have programs like CCleaner installed.
As for reformatting a PC,(Or rather troubleshooting) here are some best practices: Always have two USB-Sticks. One Windows PE Stick, which has a low spec Windows where you can boot from the stick and check stuff on your computer, I often use it as a fast way to see if the Windows the customer just killed is just a killed windows or actually something else, and if I am still able to easily access the personal data.
The other Stick is a Windows Boot Stick, which you can create by downloading the "Media creation tool", a tool from Microsoft which you can find by just googleing it. You can update your current system, even over several different big patches, or create a boot stick with the other promt inside the program.
ALWAYS have a backup. Losing your steam games is annoying and cost intensive depending on your internet speed, but losing the pictures of your baby, a marriage or a dead relative hits quite differently. Use another Stick or drive, maybe even several methods with a cloud or something, and store your drives somewhere else in case of a fire.
And a bonus tip: Simply take a picture of your installed programs, you can find a pretty compact list under System control -> uninstall programs.
Use a secure way to store your passwords, like a password manager. You wont lose any passwords and have to rumble around in your brain.
Aside from that you dont need much to get your system running again.... Be prepared.
Absolutely THE Best advice on this thread. Thanks !
Event viewer one is important. My comp suddenly slowed down and turned out an Intel NUC process crashing every 3 seconds and restarting. Found the error in EW and uninstalled it.
if you using a personal computer, you can disable superfetch in windows 7 or sysmain service in windows 10
I have never found any advise that will speed up my laptop. this video is no exception
Reset is a great saviour for windows 10. It saved my PC that had serious issues and this reset worked very well and had impressive stability benefits!!!
Technically a computer should restart at least once a month on patch Tuesday when the computer updates the system. Those errors and warnings are what scammers use to trick the suckers into thinking their computers are messed up. If you go to blow the dust out, make sure you hold the fan so it doesn't overspeed and destroy itself. And another thing that can happen is if it is spun too fast is it can actually generate a small amount of energy and fry components on the motherboard.
small amount of energy? current from it pugged into a header maybe but why would you be cleaning a fan still connected to a mb anyway? worst case you'd destroy the if you were doing something like i have seen some one use industrial strength grade air blower to clean a fan and well that resulted in the fan blades flying out, and i mean completely detached from the frame and it impaled his motherboard like piece a shrapnel and destroyed it
I discovered recently what had been slowing down my computer as I'm studying art we are all encouraged to have creative cloud installed on our computers (all in one pc for me) and it kept crashing in the background without letting me know or even being opened , solution is task manager and manually force shuting creative cloud and then suddenly my pc tends to run better
Also do not forget adjusting your swap space as Windows tends to still use a ton of swap even when you have ample RAM not getting used. Switch it to a range between 50mb and whatever your ram is.. say 8192 or something. Loading up is a little slower but afterwards, no more hard drive light constantly running and snappy application load times.
I like your helpful knowledge ThioJoe. Thanks also for all the videos uploaded. 🤝
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Man I had my old PC in a box, not powered for like 5 months.
It had like 144 days set on the task manager when I plugged and powered it.
That means my pc doesn't need electricity to run? It's 12 years old btw
Well no, your computer once booted calculates the time that has passed since it started the timer from the last actual restart
What about disabling file indexing on your drives?
I'd say registry cleaner is not likely to matter but could. If it matters much then you should probably consider a fresh install anyways. Many registry cleaners don't clean much and the few that try to clean a lot often end up being the ones that cause problems. One of the worst I more recently recall was a 4th gen Intel i-series processor and booted form a solid state drive had minutes added to bootup before it was in a usable state where things lock up while you wait through it and sometimes unusually slow operations after. No registry cleaner I am aware of targeted that registry debris and using the typical Windows GUI to clean things up by not touching the registry directly would have been many hours of work as each delete was requested by a series of mouse clicks and followed by a very long pause until the 100% unneeded entries were cleared out.
Defragmentation 'may' run in the background, but did it? Often I dealt with family and customer computers where background tasks never run due to computer off at the wrong time, process issue, etc. If you have a solid state drive, it is rare that you have a valid reason to 'need' to defragment it but there are reasons. If you are not sure that you need to do it, then you don't have such a need. Windows has replaced defragment with the trim operation in modern versions if it determines it is a SSD. I still keep MyDefrag around for times of need, but those times are rare enough I always wonder if it is still working at that point.
Event viewer showing WHEA warnings/errors in logs may be fixable if you have an overclock to throttle back, get lucky with a driver update, or get lucky with adjusting settings on the related device. Beyond that, its often connected to the more obscure glitches, crashes, and performance issues that computers have. It can be other components like RAM, wifi, external device, etc. but often seems to be CPU or(/and, for many systems solder them together) motherboard needing to be replaced. If you are lucky, you may be increasing performance instead of fixing such glitches that are horrible to work with. If you see much of that in the logs and the computer still has a warranty, make sure to get it in and resolved while the warranty is valid as CPU/motherboard isn't something you want to deal with outside warranty and such log entries should not happen from a properly running system and the issue may further degrade.
Even if you disabled them, they still can run in the background. Try looking in the program for auto start and disable it from there, and if it helps, go to services and stop it from there as well because auto start does not list everything that autostarts at startup.
for removing dusts on laptops, there are usually screws under the laptop to open the motherboard
The event viewer actually helped me figure out what was preventing my disk from being ejected.
I actually recently turned off fast startup on my main computer, because every now and then, it for some reason doesn't start my GoXLR service which I need for sound, which meant I had to open the service manually (which is simple because it's right on my start menu). My computer doesn't feel any slower starting up though, so there's no real loss here.
Also, you know how there's a special thing that happens if you hold SHIFT when clicking restart? I wonder if holding SHIFT when hitting shut down would actually force a full shut down.
I always keep Fast startup disabled because I noticed profound glitches and issues were persistent following "recoverable" crashes.
Thanks! I wanted to speed up my old laptop because it was lsgging so bad that file explorer took 2 minutes and this helped a lot!
bro use a better browser
@@sarah12232 I hope you're not confusing File Explorer with Internet Explorer?
@@mrandisg ah I might have, my bad
Tho there are 3rd party file explorers too which _might_ work better?
Serious question. "Restart". Do you get the same effect going Task manager - Windows Explorer - Restart ?
You know what I found more than once? A user shows me their new PC that they bought 6 months ago and that has slowed down. The reason: they bought an Antivirus and installed it - but they didn't uninstall the AV that came with it. So they have for example McAfee plus GDATA running at the same time...
Lol seen this many times even at places I have worked at and funny part is their IT department never noticed 2 AV running.
I once had a laptop that was always running quite slowly. Nothing I tried would speed it up. I can't remember how I came about the information, but I found out that my CPU was being throttled all the time. In the end, it turns out that the power supply that came with the laptop was insufficient. They sent me a 95 watt power supply, but the CPU required 135 watts to run at full speed. I bought a new power supply, and suddenly enjoyed double frame rates in all of my games. You would think a manufacturer would send the proper parts, but it's not always the case, and could be a reason for unsatisfactory performance that is not obvious or easy to figure out.
inn the advanced tab of the performance options you can set the pagefile, setting it to a specific amount instead of a range can help improve performance on older pc's, I usually have it set to the same amount of ram that's in the computer
Is it bad if I set it to a huge amount?
@@SMD965OFFICIAL waste of disk space. Especially if you have lots of RAM.
@@slaffkas mhh alright thanks for telling me!
And one more question, what should I set my page file size to be if I have 8 GB of ram?
@@SMD965OFFICIAL usually at least x1.5 of your ram
@@AltonV alright thx!
Good video.
Can you make a video how to configure Windows with SSD so that SSD will last longer? For example, make sure that Trim option is active, disable defragment in Task Scheduler...
I had HDD in my PC then I clone everything to SSD and just continue using it. Then I saw somewhere on internet that for SSD some settings in Windows needs to be disabled but I forgot what exactly.
Windows will detect the SSD & optimize when required n disable defrag so no need to do anything, I've been a tech 40yrs.
10:55 I noticed this one back in 2009 with Windows... I had to format because after resetting the virus was still being caught by Norton and yet still wreaking havoc with my web browser usage.
I actually used registry cleaners and they only did damage but installing windows 11 22h2 fixed that since it rewritted the files. Never going to use a registry cleaner ever again I learned from my mistakes
9:37 what's that explorer (menu start)?
8:18 128gb pagefile! Mine is 16gb, how tf is so large! Is it better for it to be huge?
joe You are the best & Thanks a Lot Brother
Everybody says that registry cleaners doesn't help, (which is true in most cases) but it actually helped me once when my dad's computer took like 20 seconds to open the context menu.
He was installing and uninstalling a lot of programs often so i guess there was some entries that pointed to something that didn't exist anymore.
An addendum to the power plan, you'll actually want to keep it on Balanced and not High Performance for Intel Little-Big Architecture chips as well as those AMD Ryzen X3D chips that don't have 3D Cache on all cores for them to perform best.
how do you figure that?
I recently reset windows, it left a file with a shortcut on desktop with removed apps and programs. Convenient. Tx Theo.
What pisses me off about Event Viewer is the fact that Windows hides a ton of its issues inside rather than being upfront about it
Startup programs - Task Manager only shows some. Others are only in the Registry and you have to find them. A video on this would be nice. Thanks.
He have it
You should setup the defrag program, by default it sets all drives to weekly defrags so if u get a ssd u should remove it from the list
It only makes sense with fragmented hard drives.
Not a bad video it’s very informative and would help new users of computers to speed up their systems. Btw I know quite a lot about computer repair and re installs etc.
I would suggest deleting power plans you don't use. My pc had a habit of always switching back to balanced so I went into command prompt and nuked everything that wasn't what I wanted.
You can't remove the battery from newer laptops though. My laptop I got in 2016 battery is built in.
this was something i found on my own desktop system, it surprised me that the reset button doesn't do a full restart. i don't recall windows XP Pro corporate doing this. right now showing 29 days when i used reset a few days ago. 29 days ago my power was out for a few hours.
doing a reset on the computer will remove your installed programs but it does leave your files alone, including new text docs and new folders that are on the desktop screen.
Well done Bro... Good Job. Most important fact for me😊
I always hit Restart as opposed to Shut Down because restarting is faster than shutting down and booting up.
Edit: Also, I used the Event Viewer when my Windows bluescreened once a day for a month. I checked and it was Critical Errors and regular errors once a minute.
If the uptime is more than a month, that also mean no monthly update, meaning that auto update have been disabled. That's a major bad thing.
One totally harmless and normal error is the page fault. That's virtual memory at work. It happen when something wants to access something that have been pushed to the pagefile.sys and removed from main memory.
No.
If you hibernate/sleep, the PC will still not update until you restart/shutdown, even if you never touched the update settings.
Here a HUGE BIG Thumb Up: 🤙
Good video, but for me the most ways were well known. But for beginners these tips are very helpful!
one of the best ways to fix bugs on widows that is more efficient than restart/update and also fixes most registry issues and all is to use the windows disk image tool and create a disk image but instead of saving it to a usb save it on the PC and install it from there. Weirdly this solves wayyy more bugs than normal updating restarting etc. This has solved issues for me that even the ms support couldn‘t.
Oddly enough it only works with the disk image not by updating normally with the disk image tool.
It has no data loss and preserves settings and it‘s surprisingly unknown amongst my tech savvy peers.
My most recent issue i fixed that way was the file explorer not refreshing folders automatically. And after long ms support calls restarts, updates, … - i remembered this trick and it worked. This helped me so often and it‘s weird how little people are aware of it.
I had this issue two days ago websites would not connect right the machine went to reset twice trying to do something after it started , i went into edge and there was a window that mentioned drivers so i clicked on it and i could repair it, it works so far , i will check the event viewer to see what happened !
Great video. Thank you!
Wifi cutting out when my laptop going to sleep after sleep i cant see any wifi network in win11 any solution please reply
Restart or:
Step 1: Open the Windows Settings app (Windows + I keys).
Step 2: Select 'Network & internet' from the sidebar.
Step 3: Select System and open Troubleshoot.
Step 4: Open Other troubleshooters.
Step 5: Run the Network adapter troubleshooter, and you are good to go.
you can also disable programs that powers up the same time that windows is booting you can do it witch cc cleaner of just with the task manager from windows.
One of the first things I do when a computer feels slow, is checking what is currently running in task manager. Sysinternals provides an enhanced task manager (Process Explorer) which shows how much cumulative time each process has taken (under the column "CPU Time"). This enables to quickly find time-consuming processes even if you don't catch them right at the moment you are looking. Of course, this is just a start, as you have then to figure out how critical the process is, how to disable it, etc.
system informer is a tool you'll like, if you haven't tried it already it. Have you open task manager and wanted to just look at what's running or trying to find something specific but with them constantly moving find it irritating? holding control while viewing the processes completely negates this and they will not budge until you stop pressing it. didn't know that for the longest time.
@@τετέλεστα I usually sort process by name or cpu time or even pid to avoid that 🙂
@@zeiky37 the windows stock task manager has this feature? Not surprising but didn't know this either.the taskmaster doesn't show everything, or give you full control to end stop or delete things, so I usually so this with autoruns process explorer etc
@@τετέλεστα I was talking about process explorer, but I think you can sort by any column field in the standard version. usually I set process explorer to replace task manager so I tend to forget how the standard version works ;)
@zeiky37 ah ok lol I do this with process explorer and autotuns as well. The normal task manager sucks
I have a question
How "reset windows without keeping files" will work?
Is it just cleaning windows drive (c)? Or it will delete every files in every drives?
Amazing video. Careful with the compressed air tho cause some fans might actually spin and send power to a component frying it.
8. If you don't have windows installed on an SSD get and SSD, it makes a HUGE diffrence, with a hard drive it takes like 5 minutes to boot and programs take minutes to start, with an ssd it just takes a few seconds.
Not really needed, if you keep your pc running 24/7 and using sleep/hiberate mode as well.
Actually useful tips, Ive seen a few of these videos, and they always do stuff that was outdated by win98.
A lot of Scammers get you to look in the Event Viewer, and tell you those Warnings and Errors are the worst thing ever, and they need to be paid to fix it,
I had once, and when I told the guy I was fine with them, he freaked out and went crazo on me on the phone, so I hung up, Id never had one of those scammers before, so I was playing along to see what he wanted to do,.
Yep not many have seen it before so it can be used to scare people with all the “warnings” even though most are harmless
All great advice, though I have to disagree to a degree about the registry cleaner. I had a PC that general performance was ok but context menus was very slow - the menus when you right click on a file, etc. Running a registry cleaner cleared it up. In general, you are correct in that they won't make much of a difference but there are certain circumstances where doing this task can make a world of difference.
So that's not exactly what is meant by a registry cleaner but I think I understand what you are saying. What basically happened in your case is that a program inserted an entry into the context menu and whenever you open the context menu that program or some part of it activated and it was slowing down the pc. I have had this too and disabled the offending program and the speed was back to normal. There is another issue with registry cleaners in that they might delete something important because the registry cleaner didn't understand what the entry was. You have to be super careful with them.
@@jackkraken3888 I understand that. Nothing was added to the context menu. But it did take upwards of 30 seconds to come up. In addition the pc would essentially lock up for no apparent reason and otherwise just didn't perform well. When I ran a registry cleaner it became instantaneous and the computer no longer locked up and performance greatly improved. In short, something corrupted the registry. The registry cleaner got rid of the offending entries...
All that to say.. the registry can cause performance problems. In that event a registry cleaner will clear it up.
@@rockymarquiss8327 OK I guess it was a different issue than mine.
@@jackkraken3888 it's a similar problem. I'm guessing that I uninstalled a program and the uninstaller didn't properly deal with the registry. I don't know that... But it's along the same line. In your case it was a misbehaving program. In my case it was forever searching. The disk was always churning
about reset it's not deleting program but just delete and reinstall basic program on data C if you chose to keep your file, so if you keep your file on data C then say goodbye to it.
it's best to make multiple partition and separate 3rd party program or data from windows program/data
Again, Another great lessons.
What about clean the cache filles by programs like CCleaner?
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ThioJoe - Question: Looking for a solution. While using browser, usually Firefox, and after 2nd or third link connection I suddenly can't connect "no Internet" but I do still have internet as a quick ping test, from cmd line, shows. This happens to both my Gaming desktop, connected with cat 6e to my router, and my wife's laptop connected using Wi-Fi.
I use razer cortex for cleaning background apps, it usually cleans 1 to 2 GB of ram each time. (tested to see if it's real or just numbers and it is real).
Clearing a full mechanical hard disk drive can also help, particularly if it's the one with your system on it.
Always interesting, thanks.
Registry cleaning hasn't been needed since like, windows XP.
Also, defragging Hard drives is still a thing for those with actual HDD. While Windows does try to defrag things, it does that as a background process that is frequently interrupted. If you aren't leaving your computer idle for hours at a time, you can still get some noticeable benefit from a defrag every now and then, but it's usually a 'per program' benefit, not a 'whole system' one. It's mainly useful for gamers, who might be updating or modifying/moving files and game installs on a regular basis, creating abnormally high fragmentation that windows might not deal with so well.
I use CCleaner when a client says the computer is slow. I clean up cache, cookies, temp files, etc. and perform a registry cleanup. They are usually pleased with the result.
why anyone still uses a HDD when even the best nvme gen4 m.2 ssds are $90 for a Tb $130 for 2 is beyond me and go on sale frequently. The slowest sata ssd smokes the fastest platter drive even using something like raid to increase its seq read/writes.
@@τετέλεσταBecause for around half that 140 dollars you can get a 4TB HDD to use as a mass storage volume for things that aren't high filesize games (like photos, video, music, or just smaller or older games that aren't read/write intensive. Some older games actually screw up on SSDs for whatever reason. They don't load properly from them), or as a temp storage for high filesize games so you don't have to redownload them later, but also aren't left with a single game eating over a 10th of a drive. Especially given that most mobos have far more SATA ports than they do NVME slots, let alone PCIE bandwidth to let them actually max out.
@@jtnachos16 well the new MB have tons of m.2 drive slots and get plenty bandwidth from better placement of the m.2 slots but you can also get get almost as much at least half - 2 thirds of 4tb nvme drives i was naming the best preforming drive prices not to mention sata ssd prices. but i didn't know they behaved this way with older games. yeah older motherboards had generally maybe 1-3 slots max and bandwidth was a "problem" in the sense not all ur drives are getting the advertised speeds which still are were very fast bottlenecked but regardless but your are right.
Is there a tip to set a fixed virtual memory size for PCs that have little amount of RAM?
if you talk about the page file it should be managed by your system because page file is slow so don't change that. If you talk about graphics card memory you can only do that with intel graphic cardand there is a way but that's not gonna make a real difference in games it will probably only cause problems and you can still run games even if they same they don't have minumum requirements
Speed up your computer buying faster and better hardware. Windows will be really thankful for that!
13:23 leaving on high performance is stupid. Balanced mode auto adjusts to meet demand.
9:45 does this work on Windows 10?
Interesting how these are not really that different from what we used to to back then starting with Win98 😀
joe what do i do i have a lappy that is windows 11 and my staff at my group home put it in child mode even tho i am 34 years old and thay made a account that idk the pin for so can u tell me how to get out of child mode and make a new user i cant even make a new account
Hello Joe: have you thought about expanding your advice to IPhone n Androids. Cleaning my phones cache would be a big help.
lovely content after a while
Context menu to me is slow to show up and even crashing Explorer. The registry is the only place where it is possible to disable some menu items without uninstalling programs.
It's amazing to be PC enthusiast.
how do you fix the window update failing to install? Issues? I tried reinstalling it... and also the Microsoft window 10 update tool but none works.
Yeah, I agree with a number of them, but really disagree with a few and have some more advice of my own. Checking for startup apps is a good one to start with. Resources like RAM are one of the important factors here. Adding more RAM might help, but I see if that's out of scope for this video. The most important setting in the _animations_ part is *transparency* because this puts a continuous load on the CPU (think of a low-end device with a slow CPU and no GPU).
Cleaning up and fully defragmenting an old hard disk drive really does work! Try running basic Windows defrag and then look what a program like Defraggler can do after that. Also, Power plan not only can be good for the battery, but also helps keeping the internal temperature down.
Best videos as usual, merry Christmas Thio
Can we have some tips like this for Macbooks. Please.