10 Best ways to improve Laptop Performance
Remember the day when you first got your brand-new laptop? Newer ones are usually faster. Over time, your laptop’s speed and performance may wane, for example taking a longer time to start and opening and closing a program might be longer. Trying to work with a slow laptop can be frustrating.
Laptops slowdown due to various reasons including lack of memory, downloaded programs and the presence of computer viruses or malware.
In the World, more than 80% of people are using a laptop for various purposes. Among them, approximately 50% of people are facing some issues in the laptop while working something important and often gets infuriated due to the slow performance of their laptop.
Fortunately, there are ways to fix this issue and to speed up your laptop’s performance.
Here are some best ways for diagnosing and fixing a slow laptop.
1. Increase Free Space in Local Disk C
Free space is the key thing to improve the speed of your PC.
Mostly computers get slow down because of no free space available in the Hard Disk. Why do we need free space in hard drives? Basically, hard drives need empty space for virtual memory.
By performing more tasks, the RAM gets overflowed and the upcoming tasks are automatically used by free space in hard drives (i.e., memory swapping) and hence there is no free space in the hard disk.
Here’s how to increase free space in Local Disk C
- In the search box type ‘computer management’, a dialogue box will pop up, select disk management under the storage section
- If you click disk management a dialogue box will pop up, select and hold the volume that you want to extend, and then select Extend Volume
An important factor to note is “Extend Volume” option is available only if there is unallocated space behind the partition which you want to extend
2. Delete Temp files
Deleting Temp files or Temporary files twice a week makes your laptop faster. In PCs, temporary files are created and stored when using graphics, video or media editing software, etc. Generally, these files consume more space in your system.
Method to delete Temp files
Press WIN key + R -> Type “%temp%” -> Click OK -> Press Ctrl + A -> Press Shift + Delete -> Click “Yes”
Follow the same steps by typing alternate words like (temp, prefetch) in Run window (WIN key + R). Refer Image shown below
3. Uninstall unnecessary software
When you use a new PC, you will find many pre-installed apps by default, that we never use at any time. These pre-installed apps consume more space and also slow down the system performance. Hence, it is better to uninstall the unwanted apps that you never use.
How to uninstall unnecessary software?
Press WIN key + R -> Type “control” in tab -> Click OK -> In Control panel page click “program” -> Click “program and Features” -> There you can see software’s available in your PC -> Choose the software -> Right click -> Press Uninstall
4. Run Defragmentation
Basically, while saving the files, the computer stores the data randomly in free space of hard disk. Because of this, the processor finds it difficult to retrieve files. To overcome this issue, we go for the defragmentation process. This process picks all the pieces of data that are spread across your hard drive and puts them back together again for the easy extraction of data by the processor.
5. Check PC for Malware
Scan your PC whenever you are installing new software or injecting pen drive, hard drives, etc. to avoid viruses, spyware, adware, and other malicious programs that take up a lot of system resources (such as memory, hard drive, and processor)
How to check Malware in windows 10?
For Windows 10 — Press the WIN key -> type “windows security” -> click “virus or threat protection” -> select quick scan or full scan.
