[Top 7 Ways] How to Make Windows Laptop Faster?

There are three different power settings already present on your Windows laptop. These power settings are intended for different usage. That is why it is important to be in the right power mode for better performance. If you click on the battery icon present on the bottom right side of the taskbar, you will see three options there- Better Battery Life, Better Performance, and Best Performance. You can already understand by reading these names. So typically, you should keep it in the Better Performance mode for balanced performance. Meanwhile, if your laptop is connected to the power, it should be on the High-Performance mode. In this way, you will get the best possible performance. 

Apart from that, there is another way of changing power settings. To do that-

• First, type “Control Panel” on the Windows search bar and click on that. 
• After that, make sure you are on the “All Control Panel Options” section. If you are not in this section, click on the arrow on the top bar next to the Control Panel name.
• Now you will see the “Power Options” and click on that, and it will show all the options. So select the High-performance mode for best performance.

Sometimes, you might see that your laptop takes way too much time to enter into the Windows Home screen. The reason behind this is startups programs. Many programs start running when your laptop boots up. So your laptop will perform slowly. To solve this:

• Type “Task Bar” on the Windows search bar and press Enter or click on that.
• Now Go to the “Startup” section, and it will present all the programs that are already turned on and turned off programs as well. 
• So turn off all the third-party programs except those important system programs like the sound control and Windows Security.
• Now reboot your laptop one time and check if your laptop still takes too much time or not.

Microsoft has its cloud storage service named Onedrive, and it comes pre-installed on most laptops. It automatically uploads files to your Microsoft linked account. At first, it might look like a very regular program, but if your laptop is not powerful enough, you will see a lot of performance drops. To stop Onedrive:

• At first, right-click on the Onedrive icon on the taskbar, then click on the More option and click on the Pause Syncing from the pop-up menu.
• Now you will option like 2 hours, 8 hours or 24 hours. So please choose any of them according to your needs.

But this is a temporary solution. To stop Onedrive permanently, you can uninstall Onedrive from your laptop or disable it from starting on at startup.

Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 both have the universal search functionally, which is helpful to find something uncommon very quickly. But it also can be a cause of your performance drop. Windows operating system uses your hard drive in the background to give your faster and more accurate results. However, this is a disadvantage for slower laptops, and it will take a lot of CPU power in the background. For this reason, you can try it to turn off and check its performance.

• At first, type “services.msc” in the Windows search bar and click on the top result. Now you will see a lot of system services there.
• But you have to find out the “Windows Search” and double click on it.
• Then click on the Startup Type option and select the Disable option to turn it off permanently. 
• Next, click on the OK button and reboot your laptop.

Now check if your laptop is performing faster than before or not. Meanwhile, if you like to turn it on again, follow the same steps and select the Automatic option.

Both Microsoft Windows 10 and 11 come with a lot of pre-installed programs. Many of them are of no use and take space in your laptop’s hard drive. Moreover, these programs also start running automatically in the background. So it would be better if you uninstall them. So you will get better performance. To uninstall these programs, you go to follow some steps.

•  At first, type “Control panel” on the search bar and go to the Control Panel’s main menu.
• You will see the “Uninstall Programs” option, and you have to click on that.
• It will take you to all the installed programs pages. Now select those programs that are not being used for a long time as well as those you don’t need at all.
• To uninstall, right-click on the program and click on the Uninstall option to start the process.

Microsoft redesigned Windows 10 with a more modern design language and more customizable functionalities. That is why both Windows 10 and 11 look very nice and fresh. But all of these come at the cost of performance. If your laptop is powerful, you won’t face any problems. But if your computer is not very powerful, you will slow down occasionally. So you can try to disable these options to get better performance.

For that-

• Type “adjust appearance” and press Enter.
• Now it will show up all the options that are enabled already. But you will also see checkboxes beside them to disable.
• You can choose which one you like to disable. So go for that, but you can also select the “Adust for Best Performance” option, and it will automatically determine which one to disable for best performance.
• After doing that, click on the OK button and reboot your laptop.

Over time, your laptop has stored a lot of unnecessary data that are not required at all. So it is safe to delete them, and you can recover a lot of disk space by doing that. Additionally, it can also make your laptop faster. So-

• Type “Disk Cleanup” and press enter to that.
• After that, select the disks one by one, and it will search for unnecessary files one by one. 
• So you have to clean them up and reboot your laptop once everything is done. 

Final Thoughts

By going this way, you can try to make your laptop’s performance faster. However, if the above methods do nothing, you have to install an SSD drive because SSD drives are way faster than regular hard drives. These days the price of good SSD drives is much lower than it used to be 3-4 years ago. So it is high time to upgrade from HDD to SSD drive. Before buying a new SSD, check your laptop’s compatibility.

So our article has given you seven methods that you can try to make your laptop faster than before. Try them one by one to get the best result. Hopefully, after applying these methods, you are enjoying the seamless performance with your Windows laptop; it doesn’t matter if you are using Windows 10 or Windows 11. If you have anything else to ask? Do let’s know in the below comment section!