Windows 10 Performance Tips and Tweaks By: Theben 02022019
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Windows 10 performance tips and tweaks By: TheBen 02022019 Index: 1. Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 10 ........................................................... 3 2. Control which apps run the background .................................................................................. 3 3. Temporarily config autoupdate for drivers ............................................................................... 3 4. Remove default installed Windows Apps ................................................................................ 4 5. Clean drivers and free disk space ........................................................................................... 4 6. Update your drivers ................................................................................................................. 4 7. Disable the Aero Theme on Windows 10 ................................................................................ 5 8. Disabling the Unwanted Visual Effects .................................................................................... 6 9. Disable Windows autoupdate .................................................................................................. 6 10. Disabling the Unwanted Services to Speed up Windows.................................................... 7 11. Disable the User account control (UAC) Feature ................................................................ 8 12. Set Up the Windows 10 Ready Boost Service for an Extra Speed Boost ........................... 8 13. Turn off Unused Windows 10 Features ............................................................................... 8 14. Remove default Windows 10 apps ...................................................................................... 9 15. Disable the Windows 10 Sidebar (Actually the Gadgets) .................................................. 10 16. Disable the Aero Peek and Aero Snap features in Windows 10 ....................................... 10 17. Change the Power Plan To Maximum Performance ......................................................... 11 18. Disable the Thumbnail Preview Feature............................................................................ 11 19. Turn OFF Windows 10 Password Protection .................................................................... 11 20. Turn OFF Windows 10 Screen Saver and Wallpaper ....................................................... 12 21. Disable Unwanted Start Up Items and Speed Up Windows 10 Start Up ........................ 12 22. Disable Unwanted System Sounds in Windows 10 ........................................................... 12 23. Anti-virus setting ................................................................................................................ 13 24. Relocate the Swap/page file or Virtual Memory file ........................................................... 13 25. Windows 10 Disk Clean up ................................................................................................ 13 26. Run Error-Checking on disks ............................................................................................. 13 27. Disable Windows Defender ............................................................................................... 14 28. Compatibility of drivers and programs ............................................................................... 14 29. Enable or Disable Windows 10 Program Compatibility Assistant .................................. 14 30. Enable write caching for storage devices .......................................................................... 14 31. Disk defragmenter ............................................................................................................. 15 32. Remove RDC to improve Windows 10 Network ................................................................ 15 33. Remove IPv6 ..................................................................................................................... 15 34. Enable or Disable Hibernate .............................................................................................. 16 35. Sync Centre Synchronization ............................................................................................ 17 36. Turn off all unnecessary animations .................................................................................. 17 37. Adjust Windows for best performance ............................................................................... 17 38. Shorten shutdown time of Windows Operating System .................................................... 17 39. How to Turn System Protection On or Off ......................................................................... 18 40. Speed up Windows boot process ...................................................................................... 20 41. Remove unused Windows components ............................................................................ 20 42. Disabling boot Animation in Windows ............................................................................... 20 43. Enable Windows GodMode ............................................................................................... 20 44. Disable the user interface in Windows boot process ......................................................... 21 45. Group policy settings in VDI environments ....................................................................... 21 46. Clean out your TEMP folder .............................................................................................. 22 47. Registry Tweaks to Speed Up Windows 10 ...................................................................... 22 1. Disabling the Search Indexing Feature in Windows 10 o Right Click the “Computer” Icon in the desktop and select “Manage”. o Click “Services and Applications” in the “Computer Management” window. o Click on “Services”. o You can see a lot of services listed there. Look for “Windows Search” in that. o Right Click on “Windows Search” from the list and choose “Properties”. o The “Windows Search Properties Window” will open up. Stop de service and from “Startup type” click on the drop down menu and choose “Disabled”. o Click “Apply” then “OK” and that’s it. The Windows 10 Search Indexing Feature is now disabled. If you want to completely disable the search indexing feature in Windows 10 you can set the Search Indexing Service to Manual (See the above method about disabling unwanted services). Open Windows File Explorer as Administrator. Click on your SSD and right click on it. Click properties then uncheck “Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties“. Click apply then click OK. 2. Control which apps run the background 1. Click Windows Start button on the left >> 2. goto Settings >> 3. goto Privacy >> 4. goto Background Apps 5. Switch off all apps running in your background. 3. Temporarily config autoupdate for drivers A drivers is a tiny program that communicates between the hardware in your system. The right version of the drivers is essential for stable and fast running of the system. Therefore, scan and update for the latest versions of drivers in the system. Goto control panel > Devices and Printers > right click your PC > Device installation settings. Switch the radio button to Yes for auto update. Start Windows update, install the updates and reboot the system. Then switch the radio button to No. 4. Remove default installed Windows Apps In the default Windows 10 installation, a lot of applications are installed by default. You can manually remove these apps, but more easy is with Powershell. Press on the Windows button of your keyboard en type: Powershell Select the Powershell_ise, rightmouse click on it and run as Administrator !! Behind 1., paste these lines: Get-AppxPackage *3d* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *camera* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *communi* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *bing* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *zune* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *people* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *phone* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *photo* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *solit* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *soundrec* | Remove-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *xbox* | Remove-AppxPackage Press the F5 button and run the script, this will uninstall all these apps from your Window 10. To get a list of all installed apps, give in this command in Powershell: Get-AppxPackage this will give you a detailed list of all installed Apps. A more friendly to read list is: Get-AppxPackage | Select Name, PackageFullName Manually Remove Apps: Get-AppxPackage -allusers PackageFullName | Remove-AppxPackage For example: Get-AppxPackage -allusers *3dbuilder* | Remove-AppxPackage OR For example: Get-AppxPackage -allusers *3d* | Remove-AppxPackage 5. Clean drivers and free disk space During installation, updates or upgrades, the driver store will be polluted. To clean the driverstore you can first find out what disk space will be used. Open Explorer > Windows > System32 > DriverStore and right mouse click on it. Click on properties and see the size of it. It should be < 1Gb !! To optimize the driverstore, download a little help tool, called RAPR. This can be downloaded from the website > https://driverstoreexplorer.codeplex.com/ This tool is not an installation, so simple download it, extract it and run it as Administrator !!. Click on Enumerate >> look for double drivers, select the line and