Windows 10 Maintenance Tasks 

Many thanks for your time and effort recording this tutorial. Certainly learnt some useful "best practice" methods. Much appreciated.

Very thoughtful to publish this help.....thank you so much.!

Legend! Subscribed this was very well put together. My mom was about to call geek squad and I sent her this - He has wayyyy more patience then I do and you pause the video!

Thanks for the video timestamps, much appreciated 😊

Thank you so much for the video it’s very informative and very well explained! I appreciate it!

Outstanding explanation, CONGRATS

Thanks for this bro... really great! 💖

Perfect delivery of great information.

Thank you😊, it's so much easier to understand now...... It's so well put and exciting to learn.

Very nice video, not complicated and easy to follow, good job.

This is great! I am definitely going to look into flushing my DNS. :)

Great video and fantastic presentation. Subscribed!

Hi Jason. Great tips for keeping Windows 10 running smoothly. For anyone interested in putting a Disk Cleanup icon on the desktop or in the taskbar: right click on the desktop >> New >> Shortcut >> for "Type the location of the item:" enter: C:\Windows\System32\cleanmgr.exe. Then Next >> Name it something like Disk Cleanup >> then Finish. You now have an icon on the desktop that will run the app. If you want it in your taskbar, run it and then right click on the icon in the taskbar as it runs and choose: Pin to taskbar. I know it is easy to run from Start, but I find that if I make the icon visible, it reminds me to use it more often. Hope this is useful for someone. Thanks for all your great videos and tips :)) Thumbs up!!

Thanks, this has been helpful

Excellent video, thank you for the information.

very clear and concise

Really helpful! Thanks!

Very helpful! I've only been using Windows 10 since September, and I'm still trying to figure it out. Hopefully, I'll be able to figure out how to configure a Windows 10 Desktop PC in the future for home studio productions. You just found a new subscriber. Thank you!

Well explained, helped me a lot. Thank you! 👏

Great tips!

Great knowledge and it's expression to other people.

The best..thank you for sharing

very well explained, assertive speech my congratulations👍

Thanks> very helpful and well explained and clear.

Useful Tips.. Thanks.. The presentation is very nice..

10/10 for the IT Crowd reference!

Useful information every 💻. Thank you, Sir

you have the best voice ever

Very informative.

As an IT Professional for over 20 years I feel that this video is very clear and concise. You would not believe how many techs I had to teach this stuff to (let alone end users).I have found that for the VAST majority of issues are cleared up by doing these basic tasks. (most important is restarting the computer at LEAST once a week.) In an enterprise we use group policy to manage some of these tasks. The last big this is looking at disk space once in a while. I just took care of a user who was saving all scanned images to the hard drive and not clearing them out (0nly had 80 Mb free out of 256 Gb) I told the person to place them on the network or on a portable 1tb drive. Now the world is good again

This video is really helpful sir

Great Thanks!

Your voice makes me feel to fall asleep 😪

Dear Sir, it is a magic wand that you have given to us. Thanks a million and God bless you.

Thank you

thank you

useful,thanks

Good Great Video!!😀

awesome...!!

Thanks

Please do some more videos like this

One more for the list "dism /online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup" from an administrative command prompt, this does a tidy up of the WinSXS folder, you can see the difference if you run "dism /online /cleanup-image /analyzecomponentstore" before and after. Also running Disk Check or chkdsk c: /f or chkdsk c: /r, depend on level of operation Fix or Repair.

In the part 11, Startup Programs, Task Manager, I did not see the same Task Manager as you are showing. I had to go down to More Detail at the bottom of box. It opened with Processes showing. Then I clicked on Startup and then see the info similar to what you are showing.

Very thorough but all is the reason why I switched to Apple. My opinion, Mac OS is allot more efficient. I want to go back to Windows but Mac OS never gives me a problem and always runs fast.

Wished SFC /SCANNOW worked on my laptop. Could have expand the hard drive longevity (even if the In-Built Driver Diagnostic says we should replace it)

Thanks a lot for this. I prefer using these safe methods instead of using a 3rd party program which can actually cause more harm than good.

Yes you forgot to clear virtual memory. Do this BEFORE you defray the disk. 1. Start in safe mode 2. Go to virtual memory settings and turn it off by setting it to ZERO 3. Reboot into safe mode 4. Defrag the disk 5. Turn back on virtual memory and let Windoze manage it 6. Reboot into normal mode. Virtual memory works much better when it has a large chunk of continuous disk space. Like every other Windoze file it can be fragmented causing your disk to trash looking for pages. The best thing would be to relocated the virtual memory on another disk all by itself just like a real operating system like Linux does

I find scheduled tasks can slow things down too

Great video really helps clean my computer. I have one computer that stays connected to my TV and when I turn off the TV the screen comes back on even though the lid is closed I have the the computer set not to sleep but I have the screen set to go off at a certain time but it doesn't any ideas?

Thank you for actually explaining to people who have purchased a new pc or added a new ssd, that these disks do not need to be optimized or defragmented. From Crucial "To summarize, do not defrag an SSD"

I use the DISM command once a week. Windows > cmd > run as admin DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Thank you for teaching us these tips for I only knew about 4 out of 15. Question: the command prompts tips...i am unsure of using them. I did that run as administrator on another program and I....that computer by accident.... so if I use these tips i won't f...up my laptop ?

I have a weekly network regiment that includes the following; 1. Update my Roku and Smart Television. 2. Run the Print Head and Test Page regime on my printer. 3. Reboot my router. 4. Since I have two PC's on my network, I run the same regime on both. 4.a Run Windows Update, if there are updates available, install them, and reboot both machines when necessary. 4.b Run Disk Clean up on both machines. 4.c Run Office Update 4.d Run updates on my apps 5. Run CCleaner to clear out all junk files, and clear out all corrupt registry entries. 6. Run Defraggler to optimize my disk. 7. Run Panda Anti-Virus 8. Run Panda Cloud Cleaner 9. Run Malwarebytes 10. Run the full regime of Spybot Search and Destroy 11. Run Spybot Anti-Beacon. 12. Re-run CCleaner 13. Re-run Defraggler 14. Run a script file that is saved in my System32 directory I wrote called Refresh.bat. The script is below; sfc /scannow DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth ipconfig /release ipconfig /flushdns ipconfig /renew ipconfig /registerdns shutdown /r 15. After my machines reboot back into a cleaned state, I run an app called Speedtest. I test different segments of the internet in my area. 16. I run a speed test on www.fast.com/ on my browsers. I complete three runs and compare the results of the runs and make adjustments as necessary. 17. Start using my machines as normal.

Doesn't always prompt for c: drive. If no other disks it defaults to c:

restart is more efficient than shutdown

Some of the screen displays and wording are different in my Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 Installed on ‎9/‎23/‎2020 OS build 19042.685 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0. I did find what you where talking about after a little looking. I am a person that if I am shown a picture, then I try to find that exact item on my machine. When I cannot find it, I get frustrated. Were you referring to Windows Home? The video was very helpful in getting me to do some things that I should be doing on a regular basis. Thank you

Microsoft has deprecated Windows (long lived) Cleanup manager (cleanmgr.exe), which means it's not supported anymore, and you use at your own risk (I use to schedule a weekly cleanmr task on every Windows installation I did, doesn't work now :( ) Another good maintenance task to setup is a RAM disk and store your web browsers cache on it, it'll make the web browser snappier and every time you reboot the browser cache will be clean (good security measure).

You will/must newer use "Optimize Drives" on M.2 or SSD disk.

This is something I am interested in. Computer maintenance. How is stress level?

Remind me about Windows...

From the appearance of your system tray, I would say you might have a few too many items in the startup group, bro.

hey, new problem, when i type in the prompt sfc/scannow there is no respose, i tried running as admin, rebooting etc. help me please!

I want your voice for an IA assitant

I enjoy your videos. Do you have any videos on the computer BIOS? I don't really understand the BIOS; what is it? why does the computer have it? is there a diagnostic tool for the BIOS? I must admit I do not know anything about the BIOS

I thought Disk Cleanup runs almost daily, with Maintenance, as in Automatic Maintenance from "Security and Maint."

I have watched a few of these tonight and was shocked to see my storage at 41.4 GB used 16.8 GB free. I have done all of it, the disc cleanup several times, the flush, the optimize drives and I have hardly any apps, got rid of a few of those as well like the amazon one, never consented to that. I dont even use Outlook, web-based mail instead. What is causing this huge storage used and how do I clear it please, driving myself nuts tonight trying to figure this out. I clear the clear every other day, no downloaded videos, what IS it? Thanks so much!!

At the end of Step #2, how do you exit Command Prompt? Nothing is shown about that.

Sir how about a video on doing the same task with different ways. Like the easy ways.

Hi I tried the second suggestion and now when I start the computer it goes to a black screen with light colored fonts saying something like "do not open or serious problems might happen (not really a quote but it is something like that. and it gives yo 15 second if you do not hit the enter button the computer turns off. How can I fix that? thanks

what recording system do you use?

What is your recommendation to someone who only uses their PC window 10 for specific programs only ( eg Photoshop? ). And only goes online when it is absolutely necessary.?

I don't think that any of the system clean up tools apply on systems with SSD / nvme drives.

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Settings > Configure Storage Sense Windows 10 Pro does not show the above, FYI.

Does this work for a SSD?

My Microsoft surface pro 4 can't turn on please can someone help me with any solution or recommend to me any video that can help me?

Hi I hope you might help, since a while now, my desktop does not appear when starting windows. I have to use command prompt and type explorer.exe all the time that I switch on my pc. Can you help me to get my desktop to appear automatically upon start up please? Thank you

I cannot find all options in wind 10

I use Ccleaner

In my windows 10 laptop Disk usage is showing 100% in task manager How can i resolve this issue

Great...how about a bat file to execute these for us?

HOW DO I GET MY SMB 1.0 NAS ACCESS BACK?

my scanning is taking way too long. but why?

This is why I use a Mac!

If you knew what you were talking about you'd never advise users to use windows update. It causes more problems than it solves.

Now my pc works better

This is why they say, Microsoft Windows is a great OS ... if your time is worth nothing.

good video, but why is windows such a joke hiding all these things in endless, not easy to find places unless you are a full time computer geek> i used to call windows MHS, million hidden switches. Now I call it mmhs .. multi million ..... jh

the sound is not good I am quite disappointed

#1 best thing to make Windoze better - REMOVE IT!

this guy has no idea its comical

i run windows 8 to avoid having to try and keep windows 10 running smoothly.

Linux..non of this....!