I will showcase 2 tricks you can try if your PC started to lag lately
This will check your Windows Image and repair any corrupted system file that might slow down your PC.
Look up Storage and then Storage Sense.
Make sure Storage Sense in turned on.
This will scan your entire PC for unnecessary files and temporary items,freeing up space automatically.
[mai mult...]Your processor might not be using all cores from the get go so let’s check/fix that.
1.Press Windows key + R to open up run command.
Type in msconfig and hit OK.
2.Go onto the BOOT tab
3.Select Advanced options
4.Tick the “Number of processors” option and from the drop down menu below,select the highest number as shown below.
5.Click “OK” and then “Apply”, simply restart your PC after.
[mai mult...]I’ll showcase an MSI bios:
1.Enable your XMP
Now,if you’ve purchased a very fast RAM,you HAVE to turn XMP on(MSI has made this quite simple,just click on the “XMP profile 1”)
The yellow pointing arrow shows the speed that the RAM will run at with XMP turned on.
2.Turn on NVME CPU lanes :Go ahead and enter the Advanced settings tab(F7)
NOTE In order to avoid damaging your system DO NOT change any voltage setting,also,every setting is reversible (easiest way is to unplug the bios battery from the motherboard).
Enter the settings tab
Advanced
In this case,enter PCIe
and finally PCIe lanes source
Select CPU,This will ensure the maximum speed for the Nvme.
[mai mult...]1.Create a timed log
Open up notepad and type in “.LOG” all caps,and save that file.
Now,every time you open it,a time stamp will appear.
Note:you can manually add a timestamp by going to edit – Time/Date
2.Header/Footer setup
If you wanted to print a notepad file,you can slightly modify it. Go to page setup:
In the Footer tab we have the following commands:
&L will allign the text to the left
&C will allign the text to the center
&R will allign the text to the right
&D will add the currect date
&T will add the current time
&F will print the name of the document
&P will put the page number in
1.Go down to your taskbar and search for “Phone link”
With it,you can connect your phone directly to your PC,once connected you and send/receive text messages and also make phone calls directly from your PC.
2.Head over to the Microsoft store and search for “PowerToys”
Once installed,you get a lot of windows useful utilities.
Two of my favourites are:
You can press
And that will keep the currently active windows on top of everything else.
And the second one,press
With this you can extract text from anything.
The first thing you should do if you receive a BSOD is to try and restart your pc and boot into safe mode to try and reset your pc.
If you are unable to do this,what you need to do is to press the power button of your pc/laptop until it is fully shutdown,do this 3 times until the options below pop up:
Once this shows up,you have to click on Troubleshoot-Advanced options-Startup Repair and see if this finds an error,if not,go ahead and get back to the upper menu ,Troubleshoot-Advanced Options-Command Prompt
Here you have to run a few commands:
1:bootrec /fixmbr
2.bootrec /fixboot if you get access denied in this step just type : bootsect /nt60 sys
3.bootrec /fixboot
4.bootrec /rebuild
5.sfc /scannow NOTE: this will take a while,just be patient
6.chkdsk c: NOTE: this will also take some time.
After these 6 steps,close command prompt and restart your pc,what this does if it finds any software/hardware issuse this will rewrite them with the basic settings.
[mai mult...]1.If you have a gif that you really like, you can ass it to your Chrome screen.
Open up chrome and click on Customize Chrome
Click on Upload an image ,select the gif you have saved on your computer, and that will turn into your background
2.If you need to lock your computer really quickly just hit windows key + L on your keyboard and it will go to the lockscreen
3.You can reset your graphics card by pressing Windows key + Shift + Ctrl + B,you will hear a little beep and your screen will start flashing ,that’s how you know it worked.
[mai mult...]Here are a couple Windows tips:
1.Press “Ctrl”+”Shift”+”Esc”- this will bring up task manager
Whilst in task manager go to options and tick the “Always on top” option.
This will allow Task manager to always show up on top of all other applications,whenever called upon.
2.Also in task manage,go to startup
Now go to startup impact and click it
Right click on anything you don’t want starting up when you start your computer.
Here are a couple of things you can try on your PC.
1.Right click on desktop -“New”- “Shortcut” and type in “slidetoshutdown”
This will add a slide effect will pop up when you want to shutdown your PC.
2.Right click on an app that you frequently use and go to properties,in the shortcut tab,go ahead and type in any key combination you want that is not currently in use,now when you hit that combination the app will run.
3.Press windows key + R and type in “mrt” and hit ok
Now,this will pop up
Now you can do a quick scan for any viruses that might be in your computer.
Quick note,this might take quite a while to scan and i recommend you do this when you are AFK.
[mai mult...]If your PC keeps freezes after windows loads and/or has a slow startup, here is something you can try that might fix it:
Here you need to untick the “Load startup items” and hit ok.
After this,restart your PC , Windows will now load only necessary programs at startup which will most likely fasten it up.
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