My System is Slow, Now What? 

Thank you!!! I've been having problems lately with Windows 11with super slowness after it hibernates, and even after shutdown. Did not realize Shutdown no longer reboots the system. Amazing! Will be Restarting from now on if I see any issues.

Loved the video you just did on the DISM fix. So nice being able to fix Windows on my elderly father’s computer. 88 yr old dad was so happy. Thank You. 🙏🙌

A good tip is, hold down SHIFT while power off and it will do a real shutdown, and not hybrid.

The performance options haven't been updated or change since they were introduced in Windows Vista. On a modern PC, you would not need to change it, but you might want to tweak it on an older PC

One way to make an old PC faster is to change the old Hard Drive to an SSD

Thanks again for your time and great videos mate 👍

I recommend disabling Windows Search Service and installing the Search Everything app by Voidtools as much faster to search files on your SSD.

i have a 3rd gen core i5 notebook with integrated graphics, 500gb hard drive and 8gb ram. not my main computer so i installed windows 11 just for fun. i did pretty much what you say in the video, plus blocked updates (i left stuck on 22H2). Also i blocked web results from the start menu. Moreover, i left Edge as the only browser because it launches really fast. The cherry on top was auslogics disk defrag doing a defrag and optimize. It is running better than expected. Thanks for the tips.

Really good feedback to used on slower systems. Thanks!

You worth the sub as just from my experience with MS OS new ones. Doing a fresh install of a new Win OS is better than doing the upgrade from Win 10 to 11. I still don't or still use my Win 10 as 21H2 version so far is stable for my machine and glad to see some settings that you mentioned there to disable. My preference is having little programs that to make OS stable and faster in the reboot. Best of luck to you out there and wish you always the best.

I have windows 11 running on an IBM ThinkPad X60-Tablet with 3GB of Ram and the Core 2 Duo L7400. Runs surprisingly well. IT also feels stylistically a match to the white Core 2 Duo Macbook from ~2007, it doesnt run as well on there because i cant get the video drivers to work thanks to Apple apparently no longer supplying drivers for these older model macbooks.

Thanks for your videos, I have learned so much from watching your videos. I applied some of the tips, I didn’t disable Windows search.

Some of those simple steps also helps high end gaming system that makes a difference when gaming and streaming. I mean even if it's 5% CPU differences it's far better anyway as it's better to be 5% less then 5% more. ALso you should do tech reviews on hardware and products ;) LIke to hear your thoughts on RTX 4000 series

Wow it did wonders to my PC. Works like it used to before the dreaded windows 11. Thanks a lot! 😃

Putting the OS on an SSD does wonders for system responsiveness and boot times. My system went from a 22 second boot time to 12.5 seconds. Updates also take no time at all with an SSD.

Hey its amazing video once again. I've got an idea for you as well which will help a lot us. Why don't you make a complete series/playlist about windows services what they are and their use in windows. You can cover up to 5 or 7 services in a single video. Once in a week will work. What you say?

that's all nice and good, but check out what changes might change when updates come out. For me personally, the disabled things became possible after the update, despite the administrative permission. Which means I have to change it every time.

@CyberCPU Windows 11 kinda looks nice but to me its a worse Vista and it eats more Ram but again thanks for the tips, but for now I might stick to Windows 10 as long as possible.

I owe you an apology, I re-installed win 11 using your newer method and not only did it work but it runs great on my Core two quad, and my other computers.

My Windows 11 potatoePC runs better than the factory Windows 10 setup. Thanks for the additional info.

You really nailed it bro!!!!

I Like U, your a funny dude and your vids are great ! Keep it up !

Best way to make Windows 11 run faster is to format the drive and install Linux

In my daily job as a IT techniques, I also do optimization on older systems with Windows 10 (and 11), something that annoys me is: Some systems don't allow you to turn off startup apps in the Task Manager. Sure you can turn them off, but for some reason Windows turn them on again by itself. Everytime I see this issue, the only thing that works, is doing it in the Windows settings, like you shows. Most of our customers with Windows 11, has a brand new computer, or a computer that supports Windows 11, but some do have a system that we need to optimize, and this behavior with startup apps in Task Manager, is also something I have seen in Windows 11. To be clear, this issue is random, some systems has it, but most system don't, like my own system. All Startup apps has been turned off in Task Manager, and I don't have the issue, and since I can't figure out what is causing this issue, I can't recreate it. I have talked with my contact at Microsoft, he said he would look in to it, but the reply I got back was more like "Ehh not our problem". So what I'm trying to say is, if you want to be 100% sure you don't have a system with this issue, you need to use Windows Settings to turn Startup apps off, Whether it's Windows 11 or 10

Great video, so glad I found your channel...."Have you tried turning it off and on again"...From the show... IT Crowd...???...If not you got to check it out...its hilarious

Your content is really so valuable, Thank you so much for sharing. Would you please consider recording in 1366 resolusion, the text woud be much clear while watch the video, also if you can make a timeline for the topics or points in the video would be perfect.

Got Win 11 22H2 on my garage PC, old q6600 with 8Gb of DDR2 ram and a 120GB ssd, runs just as well as windows 10 did on it, its pretty usable still 1080p 60fps youtube videos it does just fine, just don't expect 4k 60fps videos to work smoothly on it, it hammers the CPU.

So Sysmain, thats a new one on me. Disabled it on the potato (win11) and desktop (win10). Nice one 🙂

Try defragmentation as well it helps

Ohh thats why im subbed to you❤❤

I think disabling indexing (the bane of my existence) would provide the speed benefit that disabling search outright would have.

I do have a "potato". It's a Dell XPS 8500 I bought in 2012. I mostly use it these days sparingly as I have a much newer laptop that was able to upgrade to Windows 11 which I do like a lot. I was reluctant to try 11 on the older computer. But after your 22h2 video I decided to give it a shot. It wasn't easy. Install kept failing. But finally after trying one suggestion and unplugging every USB item it worked! I really didn't notice a huge change from Windows 10 performance wise. I noticed something inside the computer I didn't know anything about. I'm not a complete novice but I've had so many older computers I really don't know much about SSD's. The XPS had an MSATA slot. I looked to see how much they were and they were really cheap. I wondered if I could use it as a boot drive. So, I got one, cloned my old spinning hard drive to it, and set it to boot. My desktop that took seemingly forever to reboot now starts up so much faster and I also notice a HUGE improvement in performance. I'm 71 and retired. I'm not a gamer. I'd love a new PC but this one works for what I use it for and I don't have tons of cash. My updates have worked great and call me crazy but I really prefer the Windows 11 look. I've done some of your other suggestions (although most were already done -- I'm very careful about minimizing stuff running in the background). I'm a movie collector and I use the desktop as a PLEX server. I do a little light video editing, PhotoShop for fun, creating DVD's for my collection and other really basic stuff. I really enjoy your tips and helping me "Bake" my potato (if baking means making it better and faster). I expect this to last as long as I do. Thanks! I told my son who is a software engineer to check out your videos as well. He just built his 2nd system and he is a gamer.

Thank you!!

Slow system?! Why can't we just get more AOL Cds for faster internet! (jokes) Good vid, very informative.

Thanks Mike

good one

Adding a list in the description of time stamps would be a good idea

I have a potato Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2220 @ 2.40GHz was running slow until I changed the intel graphics driver to Microsoft basic driver now it's lightning fast and cpu went down from 70% to 10% Best MS OS ever!

It's videos like these that make windows a little easier to deal with. Thanks.

I did the upgrade of Win10 to 11 on a Dell T3610 with a 3.5ghz Xeon. After the upgrade it was soooooo slow !! I even had 32GB of ram. Was pulling my hair out😮😢. The CPU was running 100% all the time and sucking up 99% of the memory. Turned out it was the iCloud app running in the background. Turned THAT off in Task Manager and the CPU dropped to like 7% and the memory stabilized at a low number. Not sure why the iCloud app for Windows was doing that. I even ordered another 32Gb of ram 😅

It doesn't matter what the OS is, upon first installation it's always lightning (ish) and goes downhill from there after each installation and update

We spent years getting W10 running at a decent lick... not sure turning most features off is a step forward M$.

I don't mind the weather on my task bar, but I find it really annoying when the weather is completely covered up with stuff like the stock market. especially because it takes, like, minutes sometimes to load that... panel (thanks comcast. of course my internet is optional /s)

Add RGB. That makes everything run faster!

If your system is slow, just upgrade it. Generally adding a fast SSD and some more RAM should do the trick and won't be prohibitively expensive. Of course we talk about a low end PC, obviously not a gaming PC that will always be expensive no matter what. Well, Windows 11 is generally slower than Windows 10. It's proven in countless benchmarks and user tests. But there's a catch. Either you have vulnerable and less compatible not upgraded Windows 10 that is in fact a little faster, or you have fully upgraded Windows 10 that is not that different from Windows 11. There's no going back in software, unless you want only to run old software. And for the new software you need new hardware. It's actually not new. It's the main reason Vista was hated so much - when it was released it had way too high hardware requirements, and to make it worse, they advertised it as having lower requirements. That's why we remember Windows 7 as being so much faster. On modern PCs Vista would be blazing fast. But it's just a theory, you wouldn't even get the drivers for the modern PC for Vista. That's why we're always stuck with the latest OS and we have to upgrade the PCs every couple of years.

like the info.. would you have a handy reg file for disabling all those unneeded services..thanks

Thank you! Much faster and I use a hard drive.

I tried installing Windows 11 home the other day and it wouldn't let me get updated hardware activated without a Microsoft account are there any fixes for that yet?

Disabling sysmain & windows search isn't a good choice They are working on making Windows faster! I tried disabling and enabling them and The difference was huge

i have a 2 tb hdd barracuda and from shutdown to start up takes only a min on my pc and i have windows 11

My potato is a ASRock Tachi X570 MB with a AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 16-core CPU and 128GB DDR4 of RAM. My boot drive is a Sabrient RAID 0 m.2 nvme (2x) 2TB SSD my Data drive is a RAID 10 (4x) 4TB 7200rpm NAS HD and a ASUS GTX-1080 GPU. I wish my potato was not so weak.

I tried these options since Windows 10 by turning off health & defender games from task mgr

REGARDING SERVICES, will setting a service to DELAYED automatic start speed boot up quicker? assuming of course that service will not cripple operation

How do you know what your system needs to start up when windows starts?

For most of the services you mentioned, I had disabled and stopped by viewing a previous video. After updating to Windows 11 22h2, I checked these again per your video, and guess what, they were “restored” to their previous automatic settings. Not cool, Microsoft.

soooooo cooooool thanks for the information's 👌👌👌👌❤❤❤❤

Wow, if you have to do most of these settings, you really should be thinking of upgrading.

since installing all seems to be good. only issues are lag and font is weird and corrupt

Windows Security running really eats up my cpu on my AMD, I use Karspersky cloud. much much lower resource use.

why does my processor does not support windows 11 because i have the required thing for 24h2 and above 2ghz

Can someone make an advanced "speed up windows 11" video? Im sick of them all with the shut down these apps from starting....Remove apps that are filling up your c drive and slowing it down.... Its like...how bout some regedit sht that we dont know about? Do they not exist?

If your computer needs any of this done.........well let's just say it's nice there is some performance you can claw back....but it's only a mitigation for having a system with one or more of these 3 problems. 1 - old/ slow CPU 2 - not enough RAM 3 - no ssd So, do this on a core 2 duo with 2-4gb of RAM and no SSD. On a newer system...there are diminishing returns. I hear so many people, mostly dinosaurs and people without experience, trumpet this kind of information like it's necessary. It's really not, but if you have a slow computer that isn't fast enough in the first place for your OS, you gotta do what you gotta do. Call me a devil, but I leave everything default and just tell em to put it to sleep instead of shutting down if they have a hard drive.

Can you tell me how to open old window programs with windows 10

There is a program called Park control. It's a good alternative to power options.

I am sticking with windows 10 pro on my gaming pc. I have no intention to upgrade to 11 lol.

Tip don't shut down system main if you have beside an SSD 1 or 2 harddisk my potato is used for gaming but shutting down Systam Main , my WOW didn't start up but after some reboots it did, but if it did it was lagging like a snail....switched it on and problem gone...

Should i use CCleaner?????

A caveat for those using Windows Maps... Disabling Downloaded Maps Manager service renders Maps unusable...

disabling the startup sound will save you a sec on startup

i am on old laptop toshiba current on windows 10 my friends told me dont install windows 11 unspported because it could broke my laptop its verison 2009 but its still so great it has 2.60 ghz, 145GB and 4.00 ram is there possible i can get to windows 11???? how

im running it on a 3080 --- i7- 10700k and its slowing it down...annoying..

bro help me i installed win11 by downloading it from google now when i try to update it its failing what to do

I’m still using Windows 7; I’m in a time freeze mode.

My laptop is almost 10 years old now has Windows 10 on it installed windows 11 update when it first came out but recently I've been getting not responding issues and

A couple of months ago I bought a Prebuilt gaming pc. It is not like a potato at all, it is high-end actually. But now I'm having major booting problems with it. Sometimes it wants to boot, sometimes it doesn't. When it finally boots, it takes more than 80 seconds to make something appear on my monitor. I tried contacting the company that sold me the pc, since I have some warranty left, but they told me that I can return the pc so that they would check it out, but the return itself would be on my on risk they said. This makes me not want to return it, and now I'm stuck. I tried doing all types of research, nothing tends to work, does anyone know what I can do :(

I run Win11 dualboot on a 128GB SSD with 8 cores and 24GB RAM, and it IS slow. 😬

i had my windows defender real time protection permanently disable based on other youtube tutorials using regedit and gpedit. but still it keeps enabling the option every restart on win 11. maybe you can help me with this. thanks.

A loaded baked potato sounds right good 👍

I have done all you said and Windows 11 is still slow that it took about 20 seconds to write 5 letters on firefox and it took about 45 seconds for firefox to open. I think you should retry windows 11 because is a asus rog 16 core computer and tha is very bad

Could you Please tell me how to get a sign-in password off a laptop, that has Vista windows on it, {now that f8 won't work anymore}. Plus Could you please tell me where I could get a windows 10 install cd to put on another computer I have? Thank You..

@CyberCPU Do I need Cornta or will it mess up Windows Search Remember when Windows Search didn't have a stupid Voice Assistant ahhh Windows 7 why can't they ever bring back that OS its way less bloated then Windows 10 or even Garbage Windows 11!

BUT WHICH ONES DO WE WANT TO DISABLE??????????????????????????? I don't know what I need and what I don't need. So I'm afraid to disable anythng.

actually for me system main makes things smoother,don't know why

tq potato 😅

@CyberCPU can I disable some of the OEM Services like HP Services Processes or no is it safe to do that...?

So, when you turn off Windows Search service doesn't that stop features like clicking on the start menu and typing in sfc or say control panel. Without search doesn't that stop the search return?

glad they got uupdump fixed

tell us how to install chrome OS in laptop or pc

nice video

It feels so choppy and stuttery, especially in a game

Answer is simple get rid of HDD and install an SSD. Job done ;)

Yhooo after i have followed your instructions my pc started to show blue screen of death....I regret for listening to u

its impossible to get McAfee off a new dell win 11 c as McAfee leaves a file and pops up saying you have no protection ..Real bloat ware

Thank bra

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Wtf? My laptop win 10 boot up 12 second, and loading game cs go about 19 second. New computer win 11 cs go loading about 9 second. 10 second faster but boot up over 25 second wtf??? Write read 3500/3200 fastboot on.. wtf?

I wanna disable Antimalware service from windows 11 try install an antivirus but that process still run on task manager and is hungry :D please is any way to disable it???

how do you remove entries from the Windows Startup Menu? i have some disables, no need to see them listed.

best way to speed up a pc with windows 11 is remove windows spyware edition and installing a trustworthy os

does this work on windows 10