 Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to optimize Windows 11 and boost computer performance. The performance of Windows 11 has improved slightly in comparison with Windows 10. In the new version of its operating system, Microsoft introduced enhancements to memory and disk management, application priorities, and some other things related to CPU and battery performance. However, many users, especially those who installed Windows 11 on unsupported devices, may face performance issues which include lags and regular freezing. Although there are a few minor problems that still remain in insider builds, I'd like to show you several proven methods to make your Windows 11 work faster and boost your computer's performance. If your computer tends to freeze or gets too slow with the new operating system, the first step to take is to check for updates and update your Windows if necessary. Click on the Start menu, Settings, Windows Update, Check for updates, and if there is something new on the list, download and install it, and then restart your computer. Restarting can also help if you experience an occasional problem that seems to slow down your PC. To make your operating system boot faster, disable Startup for certain applications, because some of them start together with the operating system and thus make it boot longer than normal. To do it for typical Microsoft apps like OneDrive, Microsoft Teams or Edge, Open Settings, Apps, Startup, and turn off every program you don't want to start together with Windows. To disable Startup for third-party software, open Task Manager. Right-click on the Start menu, Task Manager, then click More Details here, and open the Startup tab. Select the program, and then click Disable below. The main visual differences introduced in the new operating system include smooth animation, blurring, transparent interface elements, and so on. This notice in the user interface truly gives Windows 11 a brand new look. But once again, all these nice-looking things come at a price, especially if you're not using a dedicated graphics card. So if you want to configure your Windows 11 for performance rather than appearance, you can change some options accordingly. In the system properties window that opens, find the section Performance, and click on Settings, and then click on the Start menu, and search for View Advanced System Settings. After that, navigate to Accessibility tab on the left side panel, and then to Visual Effects on the right. Here, turn off Transparency Effects and Animation Effects. After that, click on the Start menu, and search for View Advanced System Settings. In the System Properties window that opens, find the section Performance, and click on Settings. From this list, select Adjust for best performance. Then click OK, and restart the computer. This will reduce the burden of visual effects, and your computer will be geared for better performance. If you have a laptop, and you want the best performance in Windows 11 while you don't care for how long it's going to work on battery, change your power plan. Open Settings, System, Power and Battery. In the Power Plan drop-down list, select High Performance. Over time, pieces of files get scattered all over the hard disk, and this can also affect your computer's performance. This problem can be fixed by giving your hard disk a defragmentation session. Open Settings, System, Storage, Advanced Storage Settings, Drive Optimization. Select a hard disk, and click Optimize. There is one important thing to keep in mind. It's not recommended to defragment an SSD, as it will reduce its lifecycle. If Optimization on Skiddle is disabled, click on the Change Settings button, check the box for Run on Skiddle, and then choose the fragrance. Generally, we believe that setting the Skiddle option to Weekly is the best choice. The time required for this defragmentation ranges from a few minutes to several hours and depends on the capacity of your storage and the degree of its fragmentation. If you are still using a conventional hard disk as the home to your Windows, it's high time to consider moving it to a software state drive. You will experience a huge performance boost, and you will be surprised by how quickly Windows can boot. These days, we don't recommend installing an operating system on a hard disk for any reason, and if your computer tends to freeze when you have many programs running at the same time, it is most likely that you need to add more system memory. As we all know, the amount of RAM has a serious impact on the computer's speed and performance, and the more you have, the better. If you need to recover deleted data, view or restore removed browser history. Hetman Software products will help you. Follow the link in the description, download the necessary program for free, install it and analyze the disk. The utility will show you the data you can recover, so you will be able to view it or get it back. In our channel and blog, you will find solutions to any problem, from installing an operating system or configuring it to fixing possible bugs and errors or optimizing mobile gadgets. Our specialists will answer any questions you ask in your comments under the videos or articles. To make your work faster and more comfortable, Windows 11 restarts some background apps after you log in. If you have a powerful computer, this feature could be something you really enjoy. On the contrary, you can disable it for older machines and get a performance boost in Windows 11. Open settings, accounts, sign in options, find additional settings and turn off the option Automatically save my restartable apps. If you no longer use some of the programs which are installed on your computer, it's time to remove them. Each of them may have background processes or active automatic update options. All of these take up your computer's system memory and processor time and does make it work slower than it could. What is more, they also take away your precious disk space and leave quite a lot of junk files in the registry. So, open settings, apps, apps and features. Find the things you don't need anymore. Click on the three dots button and choose to uninstall them. Temporary files stored on the system disk can also make your computer slower than it should be. To say goodbye to them, open settings, system, storage, temporary files. Then select what you want to remove. For example, temporary internet files and thumbnails and then click Remove Files. To improve your user experience, the operating system will often show you notifications, advice and recommendations. For displaying them, it will scan the computer to see what can be improved and thus reduce its performance while doing that. To have this feature disabled, open settings, system, notifications. There are two options here. Offer suggestions on how I can set up my device and get tips and suggestions when I use Windows. Disable both of them. Additionally, there are applications that run in the background. They don't have a graphical user interface and, unlike your typical apps, such programs work all the time since you install and configure them. To turn them off, right-click on the Start button and open Apps and Features. Select an application from the list and click on the three dots button to access the Demonst options. After that, set the background app permission to Never. To close a currently running background application, right-click on the Start button and start the Task Manager. Open the application from the list and click and task. One more thing that you can disable is virtualization-based security, or VBS for short. This is a security feature in Windows 11 that protects the operating system from unsafe code and malware. And it is a part of Hypervisor in Forest Code Integrity or HVCI. However, it can reduce computer performance in games from the moderate 5% to the enormous 25%. If you are keen on games and you want to make the most of your regular playing in Windows 11, just turn VBS off. Here is how you do it. Use the search feature to find core isolation, open it and disable the option Memory Integrity. On the other hand, if you don't play games at all, you can disable the game mode for good. It will stop DVR and other background services related to Xbox and accelerate your computer a bit more. Open Settings, Gaming, Game Mode and turn it off by dragging this slider. You can also turn off Xbox Game Bar. For the same purpose, we recommend to configure your computer's virtual memory or paging file. This file should be located on the fastest disk of your computer or in the system partition. We don't recommend letting the operating system decide on the size of the paging file or leave it dynamic. Open Settings, System, About, Advanced System Settings. In the window that opens, click on Performance Settings, Advanced, and then click Change in the Virtual Memory section. Uncheck the box for Automatically Managed Paging File Size. Choose the drive where you'd like to keep the paging file, specify its size, click Set, and OK. For the virtual memory settings to apply, restart the computer. Windows 11 has a special utility that helps you find and troubleshoot various performance issues. Search for Security and Maintenance, and start the automatic maintenance tool. Click Next, and then try troubleshooting as an administrator. After the diagnosis is over, it is recommended to restart the computer. If your computer has a conventional hard disk, it can be too slow because of too many operations involved in this disk, such as file indexing, caching, and file search results. Use the search feature to find and start the services app. Then find Windows Search Tool on the list and turn it off. Right-click on the service and select Properties, Stop, Apply. Now restart the computer. When this service is stopped, search will become slower than usual, but the system performance should improve. Immediately after the installation, Windows 11 should work in a fast and stable manner unless some components are out of date or missing, where you command-installing new updates as soon as they are available. In other case, it involves obsolete drivers. If you haven't updated them for a long time, the operating system can't work properly. Therefore, it becomes difficult to achieve best performance, and the computer seems to slow down considerably. To keep your Windows 11 in a good shape, always make sure that all your drivers are up to date. If you have several operating systems installed on your computer, their list is displayed when booting, and the default time for this is 30 seconds. To speed up the boot process, you can reduce this timeout or even turn it off. Open Settings, System, About, Advanced System Settings, Startup and Recovery settings. At the time, or disable this option. The StorageSense feature lets the operating system monitor the amount of 3D space and manage it by removing unnecessary files automatically. To enable it, open Settings, System, Storage, and turn on StorageSense. In its additional settings, you can configure cleanup skills and tell the system what kind of files you want to remove automatically. Now, you know the main factors that cause the operating system to slow down, and a few tricks that will help your Windows 11 work faster. If you'd like to add something else, feel free to post a comment below. And that is all for now. Hopefully this video was useful. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Push the bell button to receive notifications and never miss new videos. Leave comments to ask questions. Thank you for watching. Good luck.