Help me keep my Windows 10 system running like a champ!

i did, my laptop is better than new, plus go to msconfig, open the boot tab, choose advanced option and max out ram and cpu

Hello, Daniel,
Besides Lee Koo’s list of items in Cnet Community today’s newsletter, I highly recommend
>no to use system optimizers, mainly registry cleaners, at all, and
>install and always use Revo Uninstaller Pro for leftovers.
But if you notice your puter somewhat slow in a few days (specially Google Chrome), don’t worry, it’s not your machine; it’s Windows 10. That has been my (and some friends&rsquo experience for about a couple months using it. I guess Microsoft experts must be working hard on improving their new OS. Let’s see…
Good luck!
Touchito

All this advice about removing unused software and cleaning up junk files is just rubbish. The disk or SSD doesn't get heavier or slow down because it has a lot of files on it, as long as you have plenty of unused space, which will almost always be the case. It doesn't matter if they are your personal files or program files or system junk. And ever since Windows 7, defragmenting happens automatically, unless you defeat it, and anyway, with today's huge disks, defragmenting is largely irrelevant anyway, because very few files get fragmented. The NTFS file system isn't slowed down by a lot of file entries as FAT16 was so vulnerable to.

Now it is true that if you have installed software that launches a bunch of services and other background processes that you don't want or need, they can slow things down. Major manufacturers are the absolute worst offenders at installing gratuitous, unnecessary bloated crapware - I'm looking at you, H. and D. But just plain old applications that don't run until you launch them will just sit there not bothering the system at all.

Most of the slow systems that I encounter are due to malware of some kind like browser bars, search hijacks, and occasionally a real virus. Other culprits are background updates pushed down by MS, and antivirus scanners running in the background. The one hardware upgrade that almost always helps is more main memory. I have yet to see any perceptual difference between hard disks and SSDs on end user computers.

Delete rubbish from you HD weekly & compress/defrag fortnightly.
(except of you have an SSD cos the OS will use Trim to maintain that. Just be sure to leave at least 1/3rd of the SSD empty)
Run a good Firewall/antivirus program like Avast Internet Security and Malwarebytes and/or HitmanPro is good too.

If you have any trouble, Win10 has it's own tools.
See Brian's site at Britec computers in the UK..
Repair Windows 10 using Automatic Repair
http://www.briteccomputers.co.uk/posts/repair-windows-10-using-automatic-repair/

Kind regards,
DAve

I find in many cases after an upgrade, users believe they have all the PC hardware issues worked out solely based on yellow flags on Device Mgr and it ain't so. A good check for Intel based PCs is to visit the Intel site and download the Intel based driver checker for currency. Oftentimes, there are multiple entries for Intel related components that will disappear, correcting themselves with a new Chipset inf install as determined by the Intel scan program. Then proceed to go through your hardware: 1) visit the PC's OEM support site first then, 2) visit the hardware suppliers site. If you have some difficulty is determining exactly what hardware your PC contains... common issue when Microsoft generic drivers are loaded for simple functionality, then contact your OEM's hotline and ask. You will need the part number for them to look it up and e-mail you back the exact specs. LOad the most current graphics drivers from the graphics chip mfr and install the audio upgrade files last of all. After you load the proper hardware drivers, your PC is ready to begin loading programs. Bear in mind that some hardware files require WinZip or WinRAR to unpack the contents.

I have a HP Pavilion e9210t, dual quad core processor, 8 GB memory, two 500 GB disk in a Raid 1 configuration, and a 1TB SATA drive for backup. I received a free upgrade from Microsoft from W7 Pro to W10 Pro. The upgrade was smooth and without any problems. To date, I have had several MS updates without problems. I have Norton 360 and Norton Utilities V16 software loaded. Before I shutdown every night I run Norton Utilities 1-click optimization that perform register checking and correction, cleans up the OS disk, and other minor programs. Initially, I defrag the OS disk using MS Defrag program once a week but I notice the high number of passes made by this software and sometime slowness in the startup and shutdown of the OS. Currently, I run Norton Utilities once and MS Defrag program multiple times until it defrag the OS disk within four passes before I shutdown for the day. I have found that Defrag the OS disk daily keeps the OS and Apps program running very fast. My OS startup time is 00:04 as recorded by Norton Utilities program.

Not only on your Hard drive, but also your RAM. Don't overload it. Use a seperate Portable drive, (I use WD 2TB) to save all your Pictures, Music. After all, that's what sucks up the space. Schedule Anti Virus Scans weekly. Make sure that you only keep the latest Bak up, so you're not saving Back up after Backup. Defrag monthly. Check which apps are running on start up and in the background. Delete any app that you haven't used in the past 6 mths. Download Malwarebytes. This is an awesome program that will pick up many nasties and get rid of them, freeing up more space and keeping you safe.

First off and it's very important , Windows 10 does not have native drivers on it. That means under old Windows you would install a device and the system would recognize it and find the best and latest driver for it. Windows 10 only recognizes a device but does not install any drivers and if it is an upgrade then all the updated drivers you had in your previous version of Windows is gone. That's why my older desktop no longer had working DVD drives or audio plus my SCSI cards failed to work. My 3 year old Toshiba Laptop was upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 but when I did a check with the Toshiba web site I had defaulted back to all the original drivers it came with not the upgraded newer versions. I then had to upgrade the device drivers of every piece of hardware on my laptop. It made a big differance. Next do a backup of all your files to a stand alone drive you want in a separate folder then do a complete system image so you have two fall back points.

1 open your browser. Do cntrl-h. Clean your browser history. Erase those cookies
2. Use windows disk cleanup and erase all the temp files
3. Go to pc makers support page and download new drivers. (toshiba is mine)
4. Check my privacy and msconfig. Make sure they are the same.

.......unless, you want to tolerate the the sludge that Windows cannot clean.

The earliest few replies have said everything you need to know. But I do not trust Windows to create a reliable system partition image. You may learn this the hard way, when you needed to restore an image that was created by Windows.

I use only Macrium now. I copy each good images to an external drive and save it for a couple years. You can be burned by the updates sometimes. But with an image, within minutes you can revert to an earlier disk state.

Needless to say, you must keep all data and personal files on a partition other than the system partition, and keep another partition exclusively for the images.

After each restore, run the updates. If everything went well then, save that new image before corrupting it with any other activity......and so on.

After doing this I use spy removal and cleaning utilities. I have used Spybot and Glary without problems except that Spybot will remove cookies and passwords also. Ashampoo cleans deeper and it removes all personal settings. I cannot say how these utilities work with Windows 10. I am holding off this upgrade until next year.

For additional peace of mind, you could spend a few extra bucks and clone your disk. Throw the clone (gently) in the desk drawer as you may never need it. With the disk image I have never needed to use the clones that I have made.

Keep connected (Favorites) to Microsoft to search for trouble like malware on your PC. Get a good register cleaner to fix mistakes when the computer boots (Wise Registry Cleaner). Get a good program to keep your driver's updated (Driver Booster). Use VMWARE to stop ransomware. And use these on a regular basis.

John Cipolletti