Optimize Windows 10 for Maximum Performance When Operating

This guide provides a practical overview of Optimize Windows 10 for Maximum Performance When Operating, including its main features, benefits, limitations, and important considerations.

1. Turn off applications that start with windows

When installing software on a computer, some software will set to start automatically when the computer is turned on. This will make your computer take longer to boot and the computer will operate slowly. To turn off startup applications, right-click on the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen and select Task Manager.

In the Task Manager window, select the Startup tab, then right-click the application you want to turn off automatically and select Disable.

2. Turn off graphics effects - Visual effects

Visual effects are beautiful transition effects when you turn on and off windows and the way shadows are drawn around windows. Disabling this effect will help weak computers to work faster. To turn off the graphic effects you follow these steps:

Right-click on this PC icon, select Properties , a new window will appear, select Advanced system settings next in the System Properties window, select the Advanced tab and select Settings .

When the Performance options window appears, uncheck all the options and select only 4 options as shown below and click OK.

3. Turn off UAC - User Acount Control

UAC is a notification window whenever you start an application, this message looks like this:

We will turn off this notification to speed up the application launch by, you open the search function and type 'uac'. Then you select the result as shown below.

Next, a new window will appear, drag the notify bar to the bottom and click OK to finish.

4. Turn off unnecessary services to speed up Windows 10

First we open the list of Services in window 10 by pressing Windows + R then enter ' services. msc ' and click OK.

The Services window will appear, here you will see a list of Services in windows and we will turn them off here.

First we will turn off the IP Helper service. This is a tunneling service that uses IPv6 and IP-HTTPS forwarding technology, but many organizations haven't tested IPv6 yet, so we can turn it off.

Step 1 : Find the IP Helper service then right click and select Properties

Step 2: A new window appears, in the Startup type section we have 3 options Automatic (automatic), Manual (run when needed), Disabled (disable).

In this service we will select Disabled then select Stop and click OK is done.

For other Services you do the same, and the following are the Services you can turn off:

• Offtine Files : Maintain cache operations in Offtine files, turn off if you do not use. Select Manual mode and then Stop.
• Print Spooler : Turn off if you are not using the printer. Select Manual mode and then Stop.
• Superfetch : Support to improve the download speed of windows and some applications. But will affect the overall performance of some applications. Should turn off the Services. Select Disabled mode and then Stop.
• Windows Firewall : Windows firewall , if you do not share files via LAN or install App in Store. Select Manual mode and then Stop.
• Windows Search : This feature is not required. Select Disabled mode and then Stop.
• Windows Update : Turn off if you do not want to Update the computer and do not use the App in the Windows store. Select Manual mode and then Stop.
• Background Intelligent Transfer : This is also a Windows update service and you can turn it off.

5. Turn off System Protection

System Protection is a feature to back up the activities and changes of windows. This function will help you restore windows at the time the computer works well in case of an error. But many people often do not use this function, in addition, this function also consumes memory and slows down the computer so we will turn it off. To turn off you do the following:

First, right-click on This PC icon and select Properties, then a new window will appear, select System Protection.

In the System Properties window, you look down the Protection Settings section if you see the hard drive partition is Off state ie this feature has been turned off. If the status is On, select the drive to install and select Configure.

In the Configure window, select Disable system protection, drag Max Usage bar to 0 and press Delete to delete all backups. Finally click OK to finish.

6. Turn off automatic updating of windows 10

On Windows 10, updates will be regularly released to fix bugs and update new features. However, this update happens automatically so it will slow down the network speed as well as the speed of operation of the computer. The following installation steps will help you master the update feature on windows 10.

First, press Windows + R to open the Run dialog box, then enter gpedit. msc and press Enter .

A new window appears, select the following path: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Windows Update

Then double click on the Configure Automatic Updates line

A new window appears, select Enabled and then under the configure section, select item 2 - Notify for download and auto install and click OK.

So when you have updated windows will not download itself but will notify you and when you have free time you can update yourself later.

The above are some useful tips to optimize Windows 10 for the computer to operate at the highest performance, hope you will find the article useful. Good luck!