Windows 10: Tip re performance issues

Based on my experience with Windows 10, if your main storage is a HD, here are a few tips that you may find useful for improving the performance of your system:

- The HD seems the main bottleneck of a PC (not applicable is your system runs off an SSD). During periods of intensive HD operations the PC will become less responsive. These periods occur very often by default on Windows 10, for example:

• on (re)boot Win 10 checks for updates; when found they are installed; after installation, some system processess continue to use the HD intensivelly for 20 minutes or more;
• Superfetch periodically scans the HD;
• Indexing (Windows Search) and Cortana periodically scan the HD;
• Telemetry tasks run periodically and use the HD;
• Application Compatibility tasks run periodically and use the HD;
• Antimalware scan runs every time after installing new software and upon software launch.

- To minimize the impact of these activities on your system consider disabling some of them as follows:

• Delay Windows updates; this is not possible by default on Windows 10 Home as the Policy Editor is not installed by design; however, there is a "workaround" - Google gpedit.msc installer and follow the instructions; you can check for updates manually at any time; delaying updates resulted in a significant performance improvement for me at boot time;
• Disable Superfetch - you don't really need it;
• Disable Cortana or at least Web Cortana; minimize the number of files/folders on your HD that and indexed;
• Disable Telemetry (several settings);
• Disable Application Compatibility tasks in Task Scheduler (find instructions on the Web);
• Try disabling some Antimalware locations, if possible (e.g., any folders containing large media files);
• Minimize your PC communications with MS servers (Privacy settings);
• Disable Windows Based Script Host in Task Manager|Startup items;
• Disable OneDrive (look up instructions) unless you really need it;
• Defragment your HD manually then set to Auto weekly.

For 2-4 try OOSU10, it should be easy to find.
Last but not least, as of Dec 2018 try upgrading to v.1809; on my PC it's noticeably faster than the previous versions.

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Performance

Hi Ravivarma,

Since you are still experiencing the same issue even after performing a clean boot, you can check and follow the steps provided on this
link. The tips on the link are listed in order, so we suggest that you start with the first one. If the issue
persists, proceed to the next method.

Should you have further concerns, we are here to help.

 

AMD FX OC'ers Club

That's what the auto setting will do since you're over the 1333 mark it jumps to the next step which isn't listed or officially supported I assume by that ram.

At this point though I would suggest dropping the multi one step or .5 so that we can get something stable and possibly take the heat issue out of the picture for now.

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.