{"id":559566,"date":"2023-03-04T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T18:30:00","slug":"5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/","title":{"rendered":"#5 Ways to Speed Up Your Windows PC in 5 Minutes or Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b0dbb08e17\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3b0dbb08e17\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/#%E2%80%9C5_Ways_to_Speed_Up_Your_Windows_PC_in_5_Minutes_or_Less%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;5 Ways to Speed Up Your Windows PC in 5 Minutes or Less&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/#Audit_Your_Startup_Programs\" >Audit Your Startup Programs<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/#Disable_Windows_Animations\" >Disable Windows Animations<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/#Check_Disk_Utilization\" >Check Disk Utilization<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/#Remove_Unused_Apps_and_Purge_Bloatware\" >Remove Unused Apps and Purge Bloatware<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/5-ways-to-speed-up-your-windows-pc-in-5-minutes-or-less\/#Scan_for_Malware\" >Scan for Malware<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C5_Ways_to_Speed_Up_Your_Windows_PC_in_5_Minutes_or_Less%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;5 Ways to Speed Up Your Windows PC in 5 Minutes or Less&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"type:primaryImage alignnone size-full wp-image-731432\" data-pagespeed-no-defer=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/windows_hero_1200x675.jpg?width=1198&amp;trim=1,1&amp;bg-color=000&amp;pad=1,1\" alt=\"Windows 10 Logo on Blue Hero\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Everybody loves a quick fix and, thankfully, a lot of simple Windows optimizations are easy to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly. If you\u2019re dealing with a sluggish Windows PC, you owe it to yourself to try one (or all!) of these tweaks.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Audit_Your_Startup_Programs\"><\/span>Audit Your Startup Programs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>You know how letting your web browser get bogged down with a pile of extensions just ruins the browsing experience? Well, Windows isn\u2019t much different. Except instead of extensions, the dead weight comes from loading everything and the kitchen sink when Windows starts.<\/p>\n<p>Performing a startup program audit is really simple, and you\u2019ll see im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>te results on your next boot. You can even get results immediately by closing any unneeded apps piled up in the notification tray.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Disable_Windows_Animations\"><\/span>Disable Windows Animations<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This one is more of a psychological hack than an actual performance hack. Windows has a plethora of little animations that you may have never really paid much attention to (like the animation for minimizing and maximizing windows).<\/p>\n<p>When you see the animation, it feels like something is happening (and taking time in the process). When you disable the animations the action appears to happen instantly. You\u2019re not going to see a performance change at the CPU-utilization level or anything, but the computer will <em>feel<\/em> faster.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Check_Disk_Utilization\"><\/span>Check Disk Utilization<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Just like your phone starts acting weird when you pack it too full of apps and photos, your computer does the same. Windows needs a certain amount of free space for daily operations, saving files for hibernation, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Now\u2019s the time to take advantage of Window\u2019s disk space management tools and free up some space.<\/p>\n<p>Updates in early 2022 to the popular disk cleaning app CCleaner make it even more useful, so if you\u2019re a fan of the app, make sure you\u2019re running the most current edition to give your PC an even deeper clean.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s never a bad time to consider upgrading a small hard drive to a bigger one. There is no time like the present to swap your small or old mechanical HDD with a spacious SSD.<\/p>\n<p>You might not be able to pull off an upgrade in our suggested 5-minute window, but it\u2019s worth putting aside a few hours on Saturday as an HDD to SSD upgrade is about the single most effective speed upgrade you could ask for short of buying a new computer.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Remove_Unused_Apps_and_Purge_Bloatware\"><\/span>Remove Unused Apps and Purge Bloatware<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>If you have the space to spare and the apps don\u2019t load on startup, there isn\u2019t much harm in leaving an app just sitting there if you think you might need it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>But, if you have applications you don\u2019t use that come with a slew of \u201chelper\u201d apps that give you a performance hit at Windows startup or that just have huge files clogging up your disk,\u00a0uninstalling them is a great way to get a free performance boost. Windows will load faster, extra space on the disk makes everything run more efficiently, and there\u2019s just not much downside.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the apps you installed, be sure to look at the apps you didn\u2019t. If you bought a prebuilt machine from a major manufacturer like Dell, HP, and so on, there is a good chance that it\u2019s packed with bloatware apps you don\u2019t need. Manufacturers <em>love<\/em> packing prebuilt Windows PC with bloatware.<\/p>\n<p>You can manually remove bloatware, but if you run into some really tricky and enmeshed bloatware that won\u2019t budge, consider using Window\u2019s \u201cFresh Start\u201d function.<\/p>\n<h2 role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scan_for_Malware\"><\/span>Scan for Malware<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Old school viruses and malware tended to have a dramatic effect like your computer crashing because critical files were deleted. While those kinds of viruses never went away entirely, the new motivation behind releasing malware isn\u2019t primarily mayhem but access to resources.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of your computer, the resource is computing power and the internet connection. So often times a malware infection will make your computer feel sluggish because even though you\u2019re not using all the system resources up, <em>somebody else<\/em> is.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure Windows Defender is up to date, and it never hurts to tack on an additional tool like <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/links\/3607085\/type\/am\/sid\/853296-xid-{xid}\/https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/premium&amp;___trxnet=cj\">Malwarebytes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Windows Defender is a solid antivirus solution, Malwarebytes does an excellent job not just catching malicious software but also notifying you of Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs)\u2014software that isn\u2019t explicitly a virus but that you probably don\u2019t want on your computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n setTimeout(function(){\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s) } (window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n   fbq('init', '335401813750447');\n   fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  },3000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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