{"id":4792,"date":"2020-09-02T21:36:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2020-09-02T21:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:37:15","slug":"6-tweaks-to-increase-windows-10-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/6-tweaks-to-increase-windows-10-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"6 tweaks to increase Windows 10 performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>With a few minor tweaks, such as maximizing RAM, disabling visual effects and getting rid of unnecessary services, you can increase Windows 10 performance.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineImages\/tittel_ed.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Tittel\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Ed-Tittel\">Ed Tittel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an IT professional, you can make a few Windows 10 performance tweaks to enable the OS to run faster. It&#8217;s as easy as changing a few settings and adding some hardware and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maximizing the amount of physical RAM can dramatically improve Windows 10 performance. A 32-bit system running Windows 10 can accommodate up to 4 GB of RAM, and a 64-bit system can handle 128 GB or more,\u00a0depending on the version\u00a0of Windows 10 you install and your computer&#8217;s motherboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Memory modules are inexpensive, so consider installing the maximum 4 GB of RAM on a 32-bit system and at least 16 GB on a 64-bit system for everyday use. You should also buy the fastest RAM that the system will support. Check the computer or motherboard manufacturer&#8217;s specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Minimize the paging file<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Windows paging file, or pagefile, is sometimes called Windows 10 virtual memory. It supports system crash dumps and enables the system to use physical RAM more efficiently by writing some file content to a\u00a0hard disk\u00a0if the main\u00a0memory is near capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On most Windows 10 systems with 8 GB of RAM or more, the OS manages the size of the paging file nicely. The paging file is typically 1.25 GB on 8 GB systems, 2.5 GB on 16 GB systems and 5 GB on 32 GB systems. For systems with more RAM, you can make the paging file somewhat smaller. You could trim the paging file to 2 GB on a 16 GB system, for example, or to 3.5 GB on a 32 GB system without running into any noticeable performance problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, one of the Windows 10 performance tweaks you can make is to reduce the size of the paging file on such systems. You should avoid altering the paging file on 32-bit systems, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How and why to change the Paging File in Windows 10\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRe_MtNvVSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can minimize the size of the paging file using the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open&nbsp;<strong>System Properties<\/strong>. Right-click the&nbsp;<strong>Start<\/strong>&nbsp;button, select&nbsp;<strong>Control Panel &gt; System<\/strong>&nbsp;and then click&nbsp;<strong>Change Settings<\/strong>.<\/li><li>In the&nbsp;<strong>System Properties<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box, in the&nbsp;<strong>Advanced<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, click the&nbsp;<strong>Settings<\/strong>&nbsp;button in the&nbsp;<strong>Performance<\/strong><\/li><li>In the&nbsp;<strong>Performance Options<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box, in the&nbsp;<strong>Advanced<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, click the&nbsp;<strong>Change<\/strong>&nbsp;button in the&nbsp;<strong>Virtual Memory<\/strong><\/li><li>In the&nbsp;<strong>Virtual Memory<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box, jot down the minimum allowed, recommended and currently allocated paging file sizes in the last section. Then, uncheck the box that says&nbsp;<strong>Automatically manage paging file size for all drives<\/strong>. If more than one drive appears in the available drives list, click your system drive, which is the one you installed Windows 10 on &#8212; usually the C drive.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Custom Size<\/strong>, and then type values into the&nbsp;<strong>Initial Size (MB)<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Maximum Size (MB)<\/strong>&nbsp;Make the maximum size 1 GB or up to 4 GB, depending on the amount of RAM you installed &#8212; 64 GB or more.<\/li><li>Click&nbsp;<strong>Set<\/strong>, then&nbsp;<strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>After these steps, close all the open dialog boxes and restart your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have multiple physical drives &#8212; not just\u00a0multiple partitions\u00a0of a single drive &#8212; you can increase the system speed by splitting the paging file across two drives. Allocate about 300 MB of the paging file to the system drive, select the second drive in the\u00a0<strong>Virtual Memory<\/strong>\u00a0dialog box, set the initial size and maximum size values, and click\u00a0<strong>Set<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"What is Virtual Memory? What Does it Do?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qeOBEOBJREs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Use an SSD<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Windows 10 performance tweaks include using a\u00a0solid-state drive (SSD)\u00a0for the system\/boot drive, rather than an ordinary hard drive. This dramatically\u00a0reduces startup time. The faster your SSD, the better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Microsoft first released Windows 10, you could improve performance by splitting paging files across multiple drives or working with Intel Rapid Start to speed things up. But modern,\u00a0non-volatile memory express\u00a0SSDs offer sufficient speed and space at reasonable prices, so that is no longer necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only way to go faster is to invest in Intel Optane memory &#8212; a system accelerating tool that stores a user&#8217;s most used data and programs close to the processor for quicker access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Disable visual effects in the UI<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Animations and shadows make the UI look great, but they can consume significant CPU and memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineImages\/enterprisedesktop_a_win10-perfoptions_half_column_mobile.jpg\" alt=\"Turn off visual effects\" width=\"488\" height=\"803\"\/><figcaption><strong>Figure A. Disable visual effects in Windows 10.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To turn off these features, open&nbsp;<strong>System Properties<\/strong>. In the&nbsp;<strong>System Properties<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box, in the&nbsp;<strong>Advanced<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, click the&nbsp;<strong>Settings<\/strong>&nbsp;button in the&nbsp;<strong>Performance<\/strong>&nbsp;section. In the&nbsp;<strong>Visual Effects<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, you can uncheck all the options highlighted in yellow in Figure A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weed out unneeded services<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Windows 10 performance tweaks, such as turning off unneeded system services, can speed up the OS. You can\u00a0safely disable services\u00a0such as ASP.NET State Service, Portable Device Enumerator Service and Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Windows 10 versions since 1607 haven&#8217;t benefitted much, if at all, from service grooming, with underpowered 32- or 64-bit systems, disabling some services can still provide a modest performance boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To disable services, open the&nbsp;<strong>Services<\/strong>&nbsp;console by entering&nbsp;<strong>services.msc<\/strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>Run<\/strong>&nbsp;box. Right-click the&nbsp;<strong>Start<\/strong>&nbsp;menu and select&nbsp;<strong>Run<\/strong>, or press WinKey + R. In the&nbsp;<strong>Services<\/strong>&nbsp;console, right-click the service you want to turn off and select&nbsp;<strong>Properties<\/strong>. In the&nbsp;<strong>Properties<\/strong>&nbsp;dialog box, click the&nbsp;<strong>Stop<\/strong>&nbsp;button and then select&nbsp;<strong>Disabled<\/strong>&nbsp;from the&nbsp;<strong>Startup<\/strong>&nbsp;type drop-down menu as seen in Figure B.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to disable one service at a time, reboot the computer and use it for a while before disabling another service. This way, if something goes haywire, you&#8217;ll know which service you must enable again to fix the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineImages\/enterprisedesktop_b_disable.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>Figure B. Disable a service in Windows 10.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Manage Windows startup entries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Whittling down the\u00a0programs that launch automatically\u00a0when Windows 10 starts can get you from the power-off state, or a restart, to the desktop more quickly. To manage Windows 10 startup programs, open the\u00a0<strong>Task Manager<\/strong>\u00a0and click the\u00a0<strong>Startup<\/strong>\u00a0tab. Select the programs you don&#8217;t want to launch automatically and click\u00a0<strong>Disable<\/strong>. If you really want to get down and dirty with startup items, use the\u00a0Windows Sysinternals Autoruns\u00a0utility instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Windows 10 also has a built-in internet lookup for process names, which makes it easy to decide which processes to leave enabled and which ones to disable. To use the internet lookup, right-click any entry and select&nbsp;<strong>Search Online<\/strong>. Your default browser opens with a list of results for that particular program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Windows 10 startup, apps that the\u00a0<strong>Startup<\/strong>\u00a0folder loads are delayed to allow the OS to load its processes first, which keeps things orderly and makes for a speedier experience. You can reduce startup time even more by minimizing the app startup time delay, which requires using the\u00a0Windows Registry Editor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open the\u00a0<strong>Registry Editor<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0<strong>exe<\/strong>.<\/li><li>Drill down to the following registry key:\u00a0<strong>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Explorer\\Serialize<\/strong>.<br>If the Serialize key does not exist, create it by clicking the\u00a0<strong>Explorer<\/strong>\u00a0key in the left pane, selecting\u00a0<strong>Edit > New > Key<\/strong>\u00a0from the menu bar, typing\u00a0<strong>Serialize<\/strong>\u00a0to name the key and pressing\u00a0<strong>Enter<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ttgtmedia.com\/rms\/onlineImages\/enterprisedesktop_c_adjust.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><strong>Figure C. Adjust the app startup delay in the Windows Registry.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\"><li>Create a new DWORD value called&nbsp;<strong>StartupDelayInMSec<\/strong>&nbsp;and set the value to zero. To create the DWORD value, right-click the&nbsp;<strong>Serialize<\/strong>&nbsp;key in the left pane and select&nbsp;<strong>New &gt; DWORD (32-bit) Value<\/strong>. Rename the value to&nbsp;<strong>StartupDelayInMSec<\/strong>. The value is set to zero by default as shown in Figure C.<\/li><li>Exit the&nbsp;<strong>Registry Editor<\/strong>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The next time\u00a0you reboot, your computer\u00a0should start up faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reduce the boot delay timeout value<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In Windows 10 the boot delay timeout value is set to 30 seconds by default. You can find the boot delay timeout value in the&nbsp;<strong>Boot<\/strong>&nbsp;tab in&nbsp;<strong>msconfig.exe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Ed-Tittel\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtarget.com\/contributor\/Ed-Tittel\">Ed Tittel<\/a>\u00a0asks:<\/p><p>What settings will you change to improve Windows 10 performance?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/searchenterprisedesktop.techtarget.com\/tip\/Make-Windows-10-performance-sing-by-tweaking-RAM-service-settings#commenting\"><strong>Join him in  the Discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can add to your Windows 10 performance tweaks by reducing the boot time value to 10 seconds &#8212; which still leaves enough time to\u00a0boot in Safe Mode\u00a0if you need to. Alternatively, you can set it to zero seconds and use msconfig &#8212; the Boot tab &#8212; or\u00a0<strong>Settings > Update &amp; Security > Recovery > Advanced Startup<\/strong>\u00a0to force Windows 10 to boot in Safe Mode on the next restart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Settings method forces an immediate restart, so don&#8217;t do this until you save your work and are ready to reboot. The\u00a0msconfig\u00a0method requires you to uncheck the\u00a0<strong>Safe<\/strong>\u00a0boot checkbox before your next reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you implement all these Windows 10 performance tweaks to reduce startup times and\u00a0increase memory, you should notice a\u00a0much faster operating system. Even a few of the recommendations will earn you a more responsive and enjoyable computing experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 5<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>With a few minor tweaks, such as maximizing RAM, disabling visual effects and getting rid of unnecessary services, you can increase Windows 10 performance. By Ed Tittel As an IT professional, you can make a few Windows 10 performance tweaks to enable the OS to run faster. 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