How To Speed Up Your Windows 10 Performance Without Any Third Party Software

This article show you how to speed up your windows 10 performance without any third party software, and it’s totally free as well. There are 10 main steps in this article, and before we starting, please update your Windows 10 to the latest version, and regularly check for updated as well. Because an outdated system may cause performance issues, and there is no doubt in it.

Step Number 1, Power Option Settings.

In this step, we gonna show you an important thing to boost your system performance using control panel power options settings. So let’s go to start menu, and click on this gear icon, and you will see the windows settings, Now navigate to ‘System settings’ and open ‘Power & Sleep’ tab, then click on the additional power settings, which will launch the control panel power options window. Normally windows default choice will be ‘Balance power plan’ but I recommend you to choose ‘High-performance’ power plan, because of its favors performance over the energy usage. If you didn’t find the ‘High-performance power plan’, make sure you always check the Hidden additional plans tab. Now click on the change power plan settings, and you will get ‘change advanced power settings’, Now go to Hard disk and change this ‘Setting Minutes from 20 to 0’, Now scroll down and go to ‘processor power management’, and go to Minimum processor state and set that to ‘0 %’, then go to maximum processor state and make sure you set that to ‘100 %’. Now click apply then click OK, and you are pretty much ready to close the window. So let's jump to next one!

Step number 2, Windows settings.

In this step, we are gonna disable every unwanted or rarely using settings or features from the Windows Settings, and by doing that you can retrieve a good amount of system resources free, which will naturally cause better system performance. So pay close attention and follow this step!. First, go to the start menu and click on the gear icon, or you can also search settings on the start menu as well. As you can see the windows settings is just launched, first you gonna need to navigate to privacy settings, now disable let apps use advertising ID, Let websites provide locally relevant content, let windows track app launches, and finally disable show me suggested content option as well.

Now navigate to location tab, and we recommend to disable the location service if you don’t use it that often. Now click on change, and disable ‘Location for this device’ option. As same as we deal with the location service only disable it if you don’t use it. Now navigate to Camera tab, and disable everything which uses your camera, except Skype or similar apps, because some people use it very often. And once you have done that, Navigate to Microphone tab, and disable every app from using your microphone expect skype or voice recorder in case you’re using it.

Now navigate to Contacts tab, and disable it for every other option other than Email and accounts, If you have a different preference, you can leave those apps enabled. Now navigate to Calendar and disable let apps access my calendar, then navigate to call history, and as same as the Calendar, disable let apps access my call history. Now navigate to email and disable let apps access and send email, then Navigate to radios tab, and disable let apps control radios. Now navigate to feedback & diagnostics, Now choose ‘Basic’ option from here. Then navigate to background apps. Now disable everything accept Alarm, Mail, Settings, and Windows Defender. Or you can leave any other app as you prefer if you think it’s important for you. And that’s all you can disable in the privacy settings. Now let’s go back to home, then navigate to system settings. And once you are here go to notification & action tab, now disable Show notifications on the lock screen, Show reminders and incoming VoIP’s, hide notifications when I’m duplication my screen” Option. Now disable notification from all unwanted or rarely using application except Mail and Skype. If you have a different preference, you can enable those apps for notification. Now go back again and this time let's navigates to ‘gaming setting’ now on the game bar tab disable the option, Record game clips screenshots and broadcast using the game bar, Now disable Show Game bar when I play full-screen games options. Now navigate to the Game DVR tab, and from here turn of Record in the background while I’m playing a game option, then turn of recorded audio when I record a game, and finally disable Capture mouse cursor in recordings option. Game bar is the worst solution for gameplay recording, and most of the people don’t ever use it. Now navigate to Broadcasting tab, and disable Record audio when I broadcast option, then disable capture mouse cursor in broadcasts option. Now go to true play tab, and make sure you are disabled that as well, it’s basically an anti-cheat feature for games, And we don’t really need it, and that’s all you can do on the windows settings.

Step Number 3, Defragment and Optimize Drives.

Only follow this step if you have installed your windows on your HDD or hard disk, If you are using an SSD or Solid State Drive Please Avoid doing this step. Go to start menu and search Defragment and Optimize Drives, and click on it, once it’s open select your ‘C’ drive or system driver, which you have installed your windows 10 OS on. Now click on optimize. You may wonder if you have installed windows on an SSD, and still doing this defragmentation on it?. In case you do, it will not cause anything serious to your SSDs, but defragmentation will Wright unnecessarily data to your SSD, And Windows 10 itself do defrag your SSD’s Automatically in certain periods. So it’s not a big deal if you’re accidentally done it. If you’re using a conventional hard drive, definitely follow this step, Because Your mechanical drives need defragmentation, because, on a regular hard disk, data is stored in diferent sectors on the platter, and mostly the reading head had to reach to multiple locations on the palter to read a single file, so by doing this optimization, Your hard drive data will sort out and place everything where they belong to, so the read head doesn’t have to move to different locations to read a single file, may result in faster load times, and better performance.

But in the other hand a solid-state drive doesn’t read or Wright files in a similar manner, because it’s don’t have any moving part inside. It’s more like a memory card, so it’s not necessary to defrag an SSD if you can avoid it. Also make sure you have defrag all your other drivers, in case you have multiple partitions. As well as I recommend to replace your Hard drives with SSDs if you can afford it because SSDs had incredible read and write speeds comparing to your conventional hard drives as well as they can load thing really faster as well. So I think it’s an additional way to gain even more performance. You can upgrade it to any kind of PC’s which has the space to accommodate a common Hard Drive. So i think that's pretty much here, so let's jump to the next step!

Step Number 4, Disable Unwanted Start Up Programs.

For that all you need is to go to the Task manager, just right click on the taskbar and choose task manager ang go to Startup tab, and you will see apps which are atomically start when your system starts. We don’t need most of these programs start automatically when our system start,

because we don’t really use them all on a daily basis as well as they will cause your boot time go slower, and decrease in system performance, because once it startup when your system start, it will stay running in the background forever until you shut down your computer manually. So let’s go and disable every unwanted program from starting up automatically when your system boot. Simply go ahead and select a program, then click on the disable button, which will disable the program from automatic startup while windows boot. If you have a preference for a particular app, then you can leave that one enabled for startup. As well as I highly recommend to don’t disable your antivirus program and windows defender. As well as please note, the changes will only effect once you restated your system. By doing this process your windows 10 boot time will become much faster than ever before. As well as it will increase your Windows 10 performance by not allowing unwanted programs to run in background. So let's go to the next step!

Step Number 5, Delete Every Unnecessary File.

This is the way to free up some hard drive space and reduce system loads. We can call it a cleaning process if you want. But we are not using any tools to do it, because of most of the third party tools it self’s cause slower system performance for a variety of reasons. We have to do a couple of things, so let’s start by clearing the temporary files, hit windows key + R, shortcut and you will see a run box, now type in ‘temp’ and click on ok, now it will open a folder, and you will see a huge number of file. These files are only created for one time use, Programs sometimes store temporary information in Temp folder before a program closes, it usually never uses again by the program, so we can get rid of them. Select them all, now hit shift key + delete and it will delete the fills forever. Now we have to go the run box again, so hit windows key + R again, and then type %temp% now click on ok, and similarly, we will see another folder with bunch of unwanted files, select them all and hit shift key + Delete on your keyboard. Now you can close the folder. And Before we left for next step, I have to share you one more tip, it maybe simple but believe me it’s very effective when it comes to reducing some system lag. it none other but your recycle bin, Go to your recycle bin and delete everything you have there, I have to remind you about it even if it’s so silly, because there are people who never clean their recycle bins, Please note whenever you delete a file from your system by choosing the right click delete option, or by pressing the delete key on your keyboard, it will not actually deleting forever from your computer, unless it will keep the files in your recycle bin for a certain limit, and the windows 10 default recycle bin limit is some were around a 100 GBs, and all those space are acquired from your 'C driver' or system driver, the drive which you have installed your windows 10 OS on. So if you have a lot of things in your recycle bin, it can actually cause a system lag! So make sure you have cleaned your recycle bin as well as make sure your 'C driver' is never full or near full, always keep it around 40 – 50 percent, otherwise it will cause, system lag, unnecessary performance issues and so on. And I think that's pretty much it, so let's go to the next step!

Step number 6, Disk Cleanup.

Disk Cleanup is a feature that available natively on every Windows 10 PC's, it uses to clean Junk file on your system. So let’s get started, Go to start menu and search “This pc or my computer” Now open this pc. And once right click on the system drive or c drive then choose properties, under the general tab you will find the ‘disk cleanup’ option, So click on it. Now select “Downloaded program files, Temporary Internet files, Thumbnails, Temporary files and Recycle bin”. Then click on 'Clean up system files' button. And it will clean all the junk files and free up some disk space. I recommend you to do this to all your local disks, or partitions. You can use the same step to do the process on any other system partitions, so let's jump to the next step!

Step Number 7, Registry Tweak.

In this step we gonna show you how to tweak your Registry to speed up your Windows 10 Performance. Hit windows key + R on your keyboard and launch the run box, now type in 'regedit', then click on OK, and you will see the Registry window. First you will need to go to the ‘HKEY_CURRENT_USER’, Now Go to Control Panel, Then click on mouse folder. Now double click on ‘mouse hovertime’ and change its value from 400 to 10, and click on ok. Now go ahead and select the desktop folder, and look for an option called “Menu Show Delay”, once you have found it, double click and change its value from 200 to 10, then click on Ok. Now you have to go to ‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE’ then Software folder, then Find Microsoft, now find Windows NT folder, and to the Current Version folder, Now scroll down a little bit and find Multimedia folder, and finally go to System Profile, Now click on system responsiveness, and change the Hexadecimal value to 0 and click OK. Now we need to go to the same ‘System profile folder’ then go to Task and finally go to Game folder, Now you have to open the file GPU Priority, and make sure you have set the Hexadecimal value to 8, then click on OK, Now open priority file and change its Hexadecimal value to 6, then click OK, and that's pretty much it. and you can close the registry editor. Now let's go to the next step!

Step Number 8, Reduce Runtime service.

It’s a great way to achieve even more performance by cutting some of the unwanted services. Let me show you how to do it. First, you gonna need to open the run box by hitting windows key + R Shortcut on your keyboard. Now type in 'msconfig' and click on OK, Now it will open the system configuration window. Once you are here move over to the services tab, and you will see all services which are always active in the background. Before we doing anything with the services, Please check Hide all Microsoft services box, to make sure we’re not messing up anything accidentally. And once you have done that, you can see it’s selected every services other than Microsoft service. So let’s proceed, you can disable them all at once by clicking on the Disable all button, or your cross-checks them and see if is there is anything particularly important for you. Don’t worry you can always restore everything back to default order if you have messed up something accidentally. So once you're ready you can click on the disable all button, now click apply and it will disable all the unwanted services on your Windows 10 PC. And it might ask you for a restart, in that case just give it the permission.

Step Number 9, Reduce Visual Effects.

In this step, we are doing something really crazy to get the maximum performance from your computer and let me warn you, only follow this if you need the extreme level of performance that your windows 10 can ever offer you. And we are achieving this performance boost by reducing the visual effects and your windows 10 UI graphics. May result better performance, but you might find your windows 10 interface less graphically attractive than before, and please note it will not affect your gaming graphics and program graphics quality. If you don’t mind you to have tried it, because if you didn’t like it, you can always set everything back to default, by applying the same things in reverse order. So let start, first you need to go to the start menu, and search This PC, now right click on it, choose properties, and click on “Advanced system settings hyperlink” and you will see a little window. Now on the advanced tab you will find the performance settings, click it and you will see another window with all these options. So go ahead and uncheck every option other than your preference, I’m going to leave the option ‘ Smooth edges of screen fonts and Show shadows under mouse pointer’ untouched. If you have a personal preference like this. I suggest you leave that untouched and uncheck all the other options. And once you have done with that, you can click on apply.

Step number 10, Additional Performance Tips.

In this final step, we gonna show you, everything else that can boost your system performance even in a graphical level. As well as this step is equally useful for both for gamers, or users of graphically demanded software like Premiere, aftereffects and so on. First I will show how to optimize your graphics settings for better graphical performance, it’s both applicable if you're a user of a graphically demanded program like I mentioned earlier or a pc gamer who expecting better frame rates. There are two main graphical powers, Nvidia and AMD. You can optimize your Nvidia control panel settings or AMD Radeon settings for better graphical performance. You may wonder this are mainly title for gaming performance but believe me, it’s the same settings to boost your graphically demanded programs as well. Because we know games them self’s are graphically demanded programs. And you will find links for all those article in the next article as well, so make sure you have check them out. So that’s how we can speed up your windows 10 performance.

Windows 10 Booting Slow, How To Solve.

This article will show how to make Windows 10 boot faster by adjusting few settings of your Windows 10 Startup. Generally, after the completion of Windows 10 installation, you will get predefined settings adjusted to the computer configuration. But, these default settings won't actually give better performance and the effect can be directly seen when the computer starts up. So, by tweaking few settings, you can enjoy faster booting of Windows 10 operating system.

First is to set up the system settings.

This actually improves the performance of Windows 10 and no where related to startup. Right click on the Windows Icon and select System from the list. Or you can even select the Properties of My Computer. In the left pane, select "Advanced System Settings" then make sure you are in "Advanced" tab. Now select the settings of Performance then select "Adjust for best performance" or if you aware about the options available, then select "Custom" and then pick the best that you would like to have. To save, choose "Apply" and then "OK" and "OK" again. By doing this, you are now disabled unnecessary animations that slowdown's the computer.

Next is to change few configuration settings.

To proceed further, open Run by pressing "Windows + R" keys together and then type "msconfig". You can even use search box to do the same. Now the console will show you the System Configuration Dialogue box. Here nothing to do with General settings. Move to Boot tab, click on "Advanced Options" then select "Number of Processors" and then make the selection to the maximum available. And tick Maximum Memory and make it to the RAM size. The math is simple. If you have 4GB of RAM then multiply the same with 1024, and the value is 4096. Click on OK to save the changes. Now here select "No GUI boot" which disables Graphical User Interface during startup, change timeout to 4 seconds and make sure to tick "Make all boot settings Permanent" before moving to "Services" tab.

In Services tab, select "Hide all Microsoft services" and check all the available services which are necessary to run after booting up the Windows 10 operating system. Now move to "Startup" Tab then open the Task Manager to disable few startup settings that effects the performance of Windows 10 startup. Now review all the applications which you need to load soon after booting Windows 10 operating system. Make sure not to disable any Microsoft applications that are necessary to run the computer perfectly. To enable or disable, select the application then click on the button.

After all changing the System Configuration settings, Click on "Apply" then confirm the changes by pressing OK and OK again. Now reboot the Computer to apply the changed settings. That's it, and now you have your windows 10 booting faster than before.

How to clean C Drive or Local Disk C in windows 10.

How to clean C Drive or Local Disk C in windows 10. It’s a simple procedure but very effective. We are not using any third party programs to perform this cleaning process, so you don’t have to download another creepy tool to do this. For your information cleaning the unwanted file from C drive will make your windows run much faster.

Step number 1, Cleaning. Go to start button and right click on it. Now choose run from here, type ‘temp’ and click ok, if it's asking for any permission please click on continue. Now you will see files and folders, which are created only for a temporary purpose. So you can select all of them and click on shift + delete on your keyboard. Some file may undeletable so ignore them and delete the rest. Now we have to open the run box again and this time type ‘%temp%’ click on ok and another folder will appear. As same as we deal with the last temp folder, continue deleting all the file. Once you do that, you have to open the run box for the final time, and this time type in ‘prefetch’, now you will see another folder opens, and maybe it asks you for the permission to access the files, in that case, click on continue, and the files and folder will be revealed to you. Now do the same thing you did with the last two folders. Select all and hit shift + Delete.

Step Number 2, Recycle bin. You may know this already but I have to tell you this because a majority of people are unaware of this, Whenever you delete a file by right click delete option, or hitting the delete key on your keyboard, it will not remove the files from your computer, it will keep all the deleted files on your recycle bin until a certain limit and the default Windows 10 recycle bin limit is somewhere around 50 GBs.  Hit the shift + Delete key to delete a file from your computer completely. The recycle bin is using your C Drive space, so technically if you delete something without hitting the shift + delete, it will eventually end up somewhere in your C drive or system drive, which will cause your system go slow. So, if you didn’t clean up your recycle bin frequently, it will acquire a good amount of space out of your C drive. So, delete all of the files from the recycle bin as well. And hope you do this once in a while. At this point, you will see improvements on your c drive space. But wait, it’s not done yet. We can do a few more things, maybe better than what you saw in the previous steps.

Step Number 3, Uninstall. In this step, we gonna show you how to uninstall all the unwanted or rarely using software or programs from your computer, which is basically installed into your c drive by default. By removing those unwanted programs, you can get a lot more space on your C drive. For that, you need to go the start menu and search uninstall, now on the search result you will find the add or remove programs, so click on it. Now it will open the windows settings apps and feature window. Uninstall each and every rarely using or unwanted programs. It’s just a matter of clicking the uninstall button and follow the on-screen instructions.

Step number 4, Optimize. First, you gonna need to go to file explorer, now go to the C drive, right click and choose properties. From here go to the tools tab and click on the Optimize option under the Optimize and defragment drive section. Make sure you have selected your C drive and click on the optimize button once again.

Step Number 5, Disk clean up. This is the last and final step to clean C drive even more or to ensure everything else unwanted are cleaned from C drive. To do this, go to start menu and search Disk clean up. it will performs a quick scan over the drive, check each and every option and click on clean up system files. And it performs a deep scan, once it finished it will open a new window, as same as we deal with the previous window, just select each and every option from here as well, now click ok and delete files. The cleanup process may take a while, so let it Finish! and that’s all we can do to clean up C drive. Hope this article help to experiencing a performance boost, free up space and a more enhanced system responsiveness.