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How to Speed Up Windows 11 (Best Settings)

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Summary: How to Speed Up Windows 11 (Best Built-In Tweaks)

The video shares performance-optimization tweaks and settings to make Windows 11 faster without hardware upgrades and without third-party tools, using only built-in Windows features.

1) Change Power Mode (Power & Battery settings)

  • Open Start → search power sleep and battery
  • Set Power mode to Best performance

2) Disable Unwanted Startup Programs (Task Manager)

  • Open Task Manager
  • Go to Startup apps
  • Identify programs you don’t use often
  • Disable them one-by-one to reduce background load and improve boot time

3) Run Defragment/Optimize Drives (Built-in Drive Optimization)

  • Search defragment → open Defragment and optimize drives
  • Select the system drive (C:)
  • Click Analyze, then Optimize

4) Delete Temporary Files (Temp folders + Prefetch)

Use Run (Win + R / Start → Run), then delete contents of:

  • %temp% folder
  • temp folder
  • prefetch (subtitles mention “profetch”)

These steps are presented as removing unnecessary cached/temp data.

5) Clean Up Disk Space (Disk Cleanup + system files)

  • Search Disk Cleanup
  • Choose C: → run scan
  • Click Cleanup system files
  • Select unwanted/junk file categories
  • Confirm by clicking Delete files

6) Reduce Background Services (System Configuration / MSConfig)

  • Open Run → type msconfig
  • Go to Services
  • Check “Hide all Microsoft services” to avoid disabling essential system components

  • Optionally disable non-essential third-party services (the video recommends avoiding services related to Intel/AMD/Nvidia unless you know what you’re doing)

  • Apply changes and restart (or exit without restart)

7) Registry Tweaks (Mouse pointer + Start menu responsiveness)

  • Open Registry Editor (regedit)
  • Navigate to:

Control Panel\Mouse

  • Change MouseHoverTime from 400 to 10 (for a more responsive mouse pointer)

Desktop

  • Change MenuShowDelay from 400 ms to 10 (for faster menu display delay)

The video advises restarting to fully experience the changes.

8) Reduce Visual Effects (performance UI setting)

  • Open Advanced system settings (via “view advanced system” search)
  • Under Performance → click Settings
  • Choose Adjust for best performance
  • Apply changes (option to revert later if desired)

Main speaker/source

  • Host: Amul Rafi (mentioned at the end as “This is your host Amul Rafi.”)

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