It is incredibly irritating when your laptop starts to slow down and brings your productivity level to zero. But don’t just give up on your laptop yet. There are a few things that you can tweak around and can make your laptop faster than it ever was.
And in this article, we will look at a few things that will help you achieve just that. Remember, not all of them will make your system go to overdrive, but you will experience a significant change in your laptop’s overall performance.
Start with a Disk Clean Up
This can seem odd at first glance, but when we delete something from our computer or laptop’s disks. Specific confidential data can hog space and slow down overall performance. This is a failsafe feature in the case of drive recovery.
So, select the drive you want to clean up and go to the properties option. From there, you will find a button for disk cleanup. Click on that and go through some choices, and the disk cleanup will begin shortly.
The time will heavily depend on the drive’s size and the number of flies. But even at its highest, you won’t have to wait to form more than 15 minutes for this procedure.
Stop the Programs in the System Tray
If your laptop is slow when you boot up your device, it is struggling to perform because multiple programs are working simultaneously. This numerous application execution can be prevented by simply going to the system tray and closing all the apps that show up.
As you won’t find any key windows applications there, it is safe to close all of them, and you won’t face any issues. You can open the applications manually if you need to use them.
Prevent the Apps from Ever Staring in the First Place
This is related to the previous tip we have provided. But for this one, you will have to go to the task manager and disable apps from starting up when you boot up your windows on your laptop.
Go to task manager (you can type task manager at the start and go from there, or right-click on the taskbar and select task manager from there). Once you are on the task manager, you will see multiple windows in front of you.
From those windows, click on the startup windows, and you will be directed to a new tab. Just disable the apps you don’t want to start during startup. Just take your mouse pointer on the app you don’t want to run and right-click, then pick disable and then hit ok.
Free Up Space by Removing rare Used Apps & Files
Sometimes the disk drive fails to read specific system commands due to heavy storage device load. And if you are not using an external hard drive for your laptop, then this can be why your laptop has become slow.
So, remove the files you don’t use anymore and free up some space. The same can be said for unused applications as well. So, if you are not using them and don’t think you will need them in the future, go ahead and uninstall them from your device. This way, your storage device will have breathing room and perform optimally.
Check for Malware Attacks
Malware or viruses often slows down the laptop, and if you have downloaded, opened, or installed some sketchy third-party software or file, then the chances are that your laptop has been exposed to a malware attack.
This means your device is now filled with viruses, and now it is slowing down the system by corrupting the system files. So, unless you want to keep this going, you should use antiviruses to remove this threat from your laptop, ultimately regaining your device’s former speed.
Update Windows, Drivers & Application
Updating the windows and your device drivers can often solve the issue of a low-speed system. You can turn on auto-update if you don’t want to update everything all the time manually.
You can directly update the windows from the start menu by typing update. While you can either update the driver from the device manager or open each driver’s applications and update them individually.
Adjust the System Power Option
Every laptop comes with a system power options menu built in them. Access it by right-clicking on the battery icon and selecting the power option. Usually, it will be on the ‘Balanced’ option.
Switch that to high performance, and your laptop should work a bit faster. This comes with the cost of ignoring some visual aspects of the windows. So, do keep that in mind.
Final Thoughts
These are a few of the best tricks that you can use to make your laptop run faster. So, give them a shot. We can guarantee that you will notice a significant difference in your laptop’s performance.
