Is Windows 10 running as smoothly as it could be on your device?
Windows 10 is Microsoft's newest and most powerful Operating System but at the end of the day, it's still software. Like any other software program, it needs to be properly configured and optimized.
Learn how to optimize the performance of your Windows 10 PC!
OS on its own is useless - few modern applications are supported on XP today, and fewer in future. I'd agree with you about 7, although some newer devices and platforms are not going to be supported by anything other than 10 - it's an industry collusion, but what can you do?
They want waaaaaay too much personal and business info for a lousy ebook of unknown quality/worth in my opinion. Anyone jumped through the hoops? Is it any good?
Is ANYBODY here so stupid as to provide their real details to spamming data collectors who offer gifts like this?
I mean truly… there is no comment needed, is there?
Just provide a fake name, address, date of birth and whatever else. Be creative and witty, or do what I do and use profanities and insults for these fields. It's also a challenge sometimes… will they allow the word "get" in the street number field, to create an amusing suggestion for a destination created by the street name and suburb?
There are an almost unlimited number of throw away email addresses services, or just create a hotmail r gmail that you only use for these sign ups.
Nobody should ever provide these idiots with personal data, and it is vitally important that people make it 100% obvious that the data collected is garbage.
Your sincerely
Dr I. Camehear
4 Your Software St
NotForSpam QLD 4567
i signed up using my work email: abc @ mailinator.com …feel free to tap into my work email :)
what junk
some of my favourites from the guide:
11 Get Rid of a Few Tiles
25 Move photos from your PC to your phone
42 Sign out of Windows
52 Schedule Your Restart
91 Print Documents to PDF
100 Contact Microsoft Support (or should we just wait for them to call us from India now they have our information hahaha)
$14.95 value? Or you charge $14.95?
Here are 35 ways without having to risk getting spammed:
http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/26120-optimize-performanc…
And that is almost totally useless and most of it doesn't even apply to Windows 10.
Clean you computer, Add More RAM, Buy a SSD, etc etc - those are not suggestions to optimise an operating system.
Of those 35, I'd guess only 10 are actually useful twaeks. Probably less.
What's sad is that you actually googled and then decided to post that link without even reading it. Lame.
only 10
For Windows XP that is the number of "tweaks" that actually do something that can be shown in benchmarks. And by something I mean small sometime unnoticeable performance gains.
This despite the literally hundreds of tweaks claiming to speed up your computer. Benchmarking shows they do nothing or occasionally slow down your computer. People apply the tweaks, undergo the normal process of confirming their own expectations and experience faster performance - even if it's slightly slower :D
The only one being lame is the one who didn't realise the bigger picture of what I was doing … the point of my post is to say "you can find optimisations to Windows 10 by Googling. You do not have to get conned by some "free" book""
But hey, if you want to play that game, let's play it - enlighten us on which ones are not applicable to Windows 10? I have just had another look through the list and the only ones I can see that are not relevant to Windows 10 are the couple relating to Internet Explorer - and I say this only because "Edge" is the main browser (but Internet Explorer is still included with Windows 10, so it will be relevant for some.)
Perhaps you are associated with the "free" eBook in some way?
enlighten us on which ones are not applicable to Windows 10? I have just had another look through the list and the only ones I can see that are not relevant to Windows 10 are the couple relating to Internet Explorer
The following are not even Windows related
1. Scan your PC for Malware
2. Install More and/or Faster RAM
3. Use a SSD (Solid State Drive) instead of HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
4. Upgrade to a Better Video Graphics Card
5. Install the Latest BIOS and Device Drivers
6. Check for and Install Windows Updates
7. Use a Faster DNS Server
12. Turn Off Unneeded Visual Effects
15. Enable Write Caching for Storage Devices
16. Move Page File to Separate Hard Disk
17. Uninstall Unneeded Programs
18. Disable or Delete Unneeded Startup Items
19. Set Unused Services to Manual or Disabled
23. Change Automatic Maintenance Settings and Time
27. Set "Turn off hard disk after" to Never or Increase Time
28. Clean Your PC << ROFL WOT?
29. Set CPU Priority Level of a Process
31. Run Disk Cleanup to Free Hard Drive Space
These ones are kind-of Windows related but not specifically optimizing Windows 10, and many aren't even optimisations but changeable preferences…
8. Use the "High Performance" Power Plan
10. Turn On Fast Boot
11. Disable or Reduce Hibernate if Not Used
13. Speed Up Windows Shut Down Time
14. Reduce Time to Display "Choose and operating system" at Boot
20. Automatically Sign in to User Account at Startup
21. Disable or Uninstall Internet Explorer Add-ons and Toolbars
22. Disable First Sign-in Animation for New Users
25. Speed Up the Menu Show Time
26. Keep your Index Enabled and Updated, or Disable the Index
I guess these are for optimizing Windows 10…
9. Turn On Fast Startup for a Hybrid Boot/Shutdown
24. Use Optimize Drives to TRIM SSDs and Defrag HDDs
33. Turn On or Off Battery Saver (in Win10)
Aghhh - missed a few, but too boring to continue.
the point of my post is to say "you can find optimisations to Windows 10 by Googling. You do not have to get conned by some "free" book""
If you had have just said that, you would have already received my + vote :-)
Speed up the system and you speed up the operating system.
"Lame" is harsh IMHO.
If some of the listed items help some people it ain't "lame"……though a slog, read the comments too.
Said as someone who will NOT install 10 til Microsoft stops underhandedly logging me. The coming change to Win 7 updates says that any "Soft"ening of that stance may be some time away, sigh.
Speed up the system and you speed up the operating system.
Upgrading is not optimisation.
Real optimisation means things like adjusting system parameters - e.g. how aggressively should it swap out RAM to use as disk cache?
Its a lot more likely to be done automatically by the OS these days, and with fast SSD and plentiful RAM, there is not a whole lot the end user can do anyway.
It does matter if you have older or low-end hardware. You can optimise by turning off some eye-candy features, though again, Windows tries to do this automatically.
If I upvote a deal just because, does that make it an invalid upvote?
Seems like there is no such things as a free lunch.. hehehehehe
Yep because MS let an OS out the door that was slow and all you have to do is twiddle a few settings and BAM, so much faster. The people that developed the OS are morons and it took a lay person to speed it up.
In your head. Before you benchmark it.
Sounds legit.
Win 10 with anniversary update is the quickest/least buggy yet. Haven't needed to do anything to it yet, fingers crossed
Is there a trick to disabling the lock screen on boot up?
There was a hack with permissions pre-Anniversary update that let you disable the lock screen but MS have fixed the hack and really insist that you click through one more screen before signing in.
No hack. Its a standard setting. Just run the netplwiz command and untick the box. Still works for me after updates.
That will also disable your ability to use a password…
I want a password, but I don't want the lock screen to go before it. You know the one with the wallpaper with the rocks?
It's an extra screen to click through that serves no purpose.
Eh? If it takes one click to dismiss, its hardly a lock.
No purpose? You have no appreciation of art then :-)
You must wait, and can't just start typing your password? I had not really noticed it.
I want a password, but I don't want the lock screen to go before it.
Such a 1st world problem.
And easy to find a solution with a special search engine called "Google"
http://winaero.com/blog/disable-lock-screen-in-windows-10-an…
Eh? If it takes one click to dismiss, its hardly a lock.
Windows calls it the Lock Screen. I'm using their terminology.
No purpose? You have no appreciation of art then :-)
Correct. If I wanted art, I'd look for it. And I do. That isn't the place where I want to be seeing it however. It's the same image every time. I'm not getting any value out of it.
You must wait, and can't just start typing your password? I had not really noticed it.
If you're on a tablet, you would normally have to swipe up before you can enter your password. On desktop you can drag mouse up or click, but there's a slight delay before you can enter your password.
Such a 1st world problem.
I hate when people say this. Almost everything is a first world problem if you live in the first world. Including everything that happens in politics that you disapprove of, losing $500,000 at a casino or your house being destroyed, car being stolen, bills you can't afford to pay because you got laid off, ex-wife wringing your balls, extreme stress at work from bad boss, or even you contracting HIV (you have access to medical care that the 3rd world doesn't and contraceptives for prevention — they have it much worse), any complaint or review about a product sucking, or not being worth the money should not be mentioned or written if we don't want to offend the third world with our first world problems. I honestly struggle to think of any problem that happens here which isn't first world. Should no one be allowed to say anything unless they move to Africa?
And easy to find a solution with a special search engine called "Google"
http://winaero.com/blog/disable-lock-screen-in-windows-10-an…
Solution did not work for me. There was another solution too, with mixed results.
What bothers me is that MS is adamant about wanting us to see the lock screen. For no reason I can think of. There was a simpler (though still advanced) way to disable it before Anniversary, but they killed that, making it much harder now.
The method you linked to is a lot more complicated and it's not perfect:
The lock screen will be disabled. To enable it back, you need to remove the rule you created. This method is not perfect:
The lock screen will re-appear if you reboot your PC.
The lock screen will re-appear if your display entered the power saving mode.
Windows calls it the Lock Screen. I
I see. How odd. Must be historical reasons.
It's the same image every time.
Thats no good - it should cycle daily. You may need to enable Spotlight.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/win…
I hate when people say this. Almost everything is a first world problem
Context! If this is one of your bigger problems with Windows 10, you are doing very well.
The method you linked to is a lot more complicated and it's not perfect:
You asked for a solution, and I gave you one. It's not particularly complicated, and for the dumb-arses who cannot read or follow instructions there is even a "one click" (completely automatic) solution on that page as well.
The lock screen will be disabled. To enable it back, you need to remove the rule you created.
Well, derr. Would you prefer that it re-enabled itself automatically?
The method you linked to is a lot more complicated and it's not perfect:
The lock screen will re-appear if you reboot your PC.
The lock screen will re-appear if your display entered the power saving mode.
The fact that you copy/pasted that 100% proves that you didn't even read the article that I linked you to.
The words that you are quoting is from the original method (which suffers those failings), which is commented about at the end of the article. The page I linked to solved BOTH of those problems. That is why I posted it to assist you. You negged me as thanks.
I reckon it must be a significant challenge for people who have poor reading and comprehension skills, and hence are unable to resolve problems that other people find easy to deal with. For those types of people, when faced with the task of learning, it's easier to argue. Wrapping heaps of words of justification or diversion or sarcastic insults around a fail doesn't stop it being a fail.
http://winaero.com/blog/disable-lock-screen-in-windows-10-an…
Solution did not work for me. There was another solution too, with mixed results.
The reason that the solution didn't work for you is simply because you never even read what I linked to, and hence never tried it.
Enjoy your lock screen - the one that other people either find a "non-problem" or have the attention span to learn how to solve.
Such a 1st world problem.
I hate when people say this. Almost everything is a first world problem if you live in the first world. Including everything that happens in politics that you disapprove of, losing $500,000 at a casino or your house being destroyed, car being stolen, bills you can't afford to pay because you got laid off, ex-wife wringing your balls, extreme stress at work from bad boss, or even you contracting HIV (you have access to medical care that the 3rd world doesn't and contraceptives for prevention
The reason that you hate people using the term is probably because you don't understand what it means.
None of those examples you mentioned are particularly "First world problems".
Previous deals posted by OP indicate that this is more an email harvesting set up than providing anything of any value.
Thanks, however the second one that disables Tracking is a damn suss.
There are more refined solutions that do not require an exclusion to be added to Antivirus, in order for it to run.
It's like "This unknown random software will solve all your Virus, Trojan and Malware infections. Please disable your commercial Anti Virus software, so we can proceed with our installation" LOL
To get windows running as smoothly as possible, uninstall windows 10 and install windows xp.