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PaaPsik10416yIf relatives had a really old pc and it was really ahitty what i used to do is install xp tiny or 7 tiny versions where almost everything is stripped out and only necessities left. 100-200mb ram usage in idle or something like that
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deinstall unused software
remove update files
clean registry
(no defrag on ssd though)
while you cannot do a fresh install -
- Upgrade ram and HDD—>SSD where possible
- Clean up the HSF
- Change wallpaper to dickbutt (makes some things faster) -
Disable Superfetch and Windows Search indexing
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Axis8446y@electrineer really? I would think it's trying to optimize between speed and not eating up storage space, but if they op has an unusable computer I doubt they care as much about the storage space as windows thinks
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@Axis virtual memory kills all speed anyway, but bad configuration also breaks stuff
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@Axis your computer will feel like crap if what you're working with doesn't fit in your ram.
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Axis8446y@electrineer true, but increasing virtual memory still will speed up the computer it dedicates a larger section of long term storage to memory, a page hit in the virtual memory takes a lot less time than a page fault to recover so increasing virtual memory will increase the amount of page hits not sure how that could make your computer slower
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@Axis well the computer will be unusable if what windows suggests is not enough.
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henlo32876y-remove all metro apps
-disable cortana
-disable telemetry and other privacy hogging services
-get rid of windows defender and use a lightweight antivirus instead
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Tips for optimizing Windows performance on old PC. The following is what i got, please add things to the list.
- Defragment the harddisk
- Clear some space on the harddisk
- Reduce amount of unnecessary programs running in the background
- Check for malware/virus and remove them
question
windows
optimize windows