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over the last few months you guys have been asking me a lot for a Windows 10 optimization guide and with the recent release of update 1903 that's exactly what we're going to do here today with an older CPU - so I'm using an i7 2600 it's only got a gigabytes of RAM so if anything these optimizations are gonna make a bigger difference the older and more slower your hardware is though will that aside before you even install Windows make sure if you're updating from a previous version of Windows that you don't have a USB storage device connected or an SD card as that will cause an error but on top of that when you're doing a fresh install make sure you uncheck and decline these settings at the start I'll show you the list and with that aside let's get straight into the meat and potatoes of this guide to make that Windows 10 optimized with some tech yes loving that's basically where we're gonna speed it up and make everything snappy and lightning fast so now that we're on the desktop here the first thing that we're gonna do is right click on these icons unless you use the windows man or leave it on but I like to clean things up straight away so unpin from taskbar and of course I usually like to install Google Chrome or opera if I've got a higher-end system on still opera if I've got a sort of like a semi potato that we've got here today then I'll leave chrome on right click though talk to Cortana right click this and then left click show Cortana button and it's a really good addition now we don't have to disable our search bar from Cortana in this new update now another good thing is you'll notice straight away there's a new background and this is to let you know that your updated to 1903 in the past Windows updates I don't really know what version I've on I've actually had to go manually check because they've always left the background the same but this is a good thing they're changing the background so after that we can now go to the bottom right hand corner here left click on the little arrow right click on onedrive and then left click on settings and then left click on the settings up here and I like to not start onedrive automatically when I sign into Windows left click ok and then go back down again right-click it and then close onedrive this is so we can uninstall it later but if you use onedrive make sure you leave it enabled now the next I'm gonna do is right-click down the bottom here on the taskbar setting left click that and while we're down here I like to left-click on the combine taskbar buttons and then left-click on never this basically just assures that nothing gets cluttered up here down the bottom and everything I can see every app that's open every browser that's open but then from here we can actually move up the list and go through and take off all these settings I mean if you like these settings leave them on but again I'm making things snappier making things faster and then we can also left-click up on the lockscreen here and then go down to the Cortana setting which is left click on this Cortana lock screen setting and then we can go down to here use Cortana even when my device is locked so left click that turn it off we can then hit the X arrow here and then right click here go back to the taskbar setting because there's no actual back arrow there so it's pretty annoying so we've got to go back to this tab buyer this way and then left click on the colors here and go down to transparency effects and turn this off this is important if you're on an older machine obviously if you've got a more powerful rig you may wish to leave this on to have a fancy looking windows but essentially now a start manual also have solid background colors as well as our taskbar down the bottom here but now we can move now back to the Home tab so left click on home and we'll be greeted I like to maximize this by clicking that little tab there and we can go through each of these settings individually so starting off with system now you can see here I'm on a 4k display and I've got to leave the icons really big so we don't want to touch any of that but nightlight settings it's important to talk about this because it currently is a little bit buggy if you want to turn this on you can try your luck and schedule it to your nightlight but I believe it does have an update as I tried it before and it was a little bit buggy but moving down now through sound there's nothing really to change he had notifications and actions I like to turn all these off if you get something out of these notification settings and you know that you need them then definitely leave them on there moving through now focus assist this is pretty important because if you've ever played a game and you've changed resolutions it'll pop up with this annoying alert like I'll fix your blurry applications I'm gonna turn this to alarms only and then I'm gonna turn all these off here from being an alarm and so essentially this will not show me any of those annoying pop-ups anymore because I don't have anything set to pop up now next up in the line we've got power and sleep settings this is very important if you are on a laptop if you're on a laptop or a tablet definitely leave these as they can seriously drain your battery faster than what it would be used to but we want to left-click here we want to left-click on high-performance mode and make sure that's on so usually on a laptop or any other computer you'll have balanced on but we're gonna left click here high-performance click on change plan settings and then go to change advanced power settings and make sure the hard drive here is set to 0 as well as the desktop background settings is check to pause on top of that we can also go down to sleep timers and make sure that we're disabling hibernate as well and this is important for later when we want to some SSD storage but moving through the list we can then left-click on storage and going down here go to optimize drives and we want to go to here to scheduled optimization change settings and we want a left-click and turn all these settings off here because this will free up a background process where it automatically schedules drives and if you're playing a game it can get annoying of course I'm stuttering potentially especially if you're in a clutch situation which you don't want happening now on top of that it is important to note that you may wish to defragment your drives or trim them by using this feature so definitely come back in here every few months and I use these settings analyze and optimize because otherwise your drives will get a little bit slow over time where the space will get fragmented and the storage performance will suffer but that aside let's move down to tablet mode we can ignore that because there's nothing in here unless you're on a tablet of course left clicking on multitask will bring up snap windows and also show suggestions on timeline I like to turn these both off that's how I use Windows I'm not a big fan of snapping some people love it it personally triggers me a little bit because I'm pretty precise in how I like my windows moving now to shared experiences we can left-click turn that off we don't need that clipboard though this is a setting that's new on Windows 1903 and I personally love it if we turn this on and then we hit the windows V key we've now got our clipboard history where if we're copy pasting many things it'll have all those copy paces selected so you don't have to use now the last copy paste so for instance if you go to your bank details and you're sending them to someone else you then copy them individually and then pick and select them quickly from this clipboard menu so very handy to have I actually like to leave that on so we're actually turning something on for once which is rare but after that we can then go back to the home setting and move across the devices and there's not a whole lot to do here except down in the pen and windows ink setting we can then click on left click on that and then left click on show recommended app suggestions just turn that off left click on home and move now back to phone but we can skip phone if you're not signed into a Microsoft account which you can see here I'm not so if you are on a Microsoft account there may be some settings in there that you want to disable it's up to you your mileage may vary on that one we're moving now across the network and Internet and going down to the VPN tab we can left-click that and then turn off these two services here now if you're on something like Nord VPN or some other VPN service they've got their own separate applications they shouldn't conflict with these settings though if you are having problems getting your VPN to work you may wish to turn these back on again I've never had a problem turning these off and using a separate VPN client but that's my personal experience and now we can left click on home and we can move and skip personalization because we did cover that in the intro when we're right clicking down on the task bar here but moving now across to left clicking on apps and apps and features this is always a big one because we've got so much crap that we can uninstall and this time around with windows 1903 they've enabled you to uninstall even more crap which is actually a pretty good thing so we're gonna go through here and just uninstall a heap of different stuff obviously things to not uninstall are your video card drivers so make sure you don't understood that and if you use Skype for example you may wish to not uninstall that but I use that on a smartphone so it's not a problem so let's quickly go through this speed it up a little bit uninstall all the crap you can copy my settings if you want to and you use it like me but let's go through and quickly get this done and there we go we've done with absent features now moving over to default apps if you've got something like Google Chrome you can manually set that in here which I'll be doing after this video and then moving down to offline maps we can delete all the maps delete all and then go down here to automatically update maps that little cheeky bugger there we can disable him and that's another cheeky bugger noise in the background moving down to apps for websites we can turn these off these are background things that we don't need video playback should be ok and startup we can left-click and get this notification off because it's just annoying left click back on the home setting there and now moving across to time and language we can skip accounts because I only use my admin account on Windows 10 oh that's the way it's always been but it's that time automatically we can see here that it's actually setting a different time zone for me so I'm gonna see if it automatically sets my time zone to Australia and then way what I can do after that is uncheck these and quickly get the right time and you can see here it didn't work this time so since I'm in Australia I can then go down manually set my time zone and leave those settings off especially the set time automatically because that's a background service that's going to be going on chewing up ever so small amount of performance which is the whole point of this guide every little bit we can get we will get but keep in mind though one negative of this is that it will off sync over time so you may be a minute slower or a minute ahead depending on how it works but on that we can now move back left click on the Home tab and move across to the gaming tab where I like to pretty much disable all the options in all these five tabs here so going down to game bar we can left-click that turn that off and then moving down to captures same story where we're left clicking on this and we can left-click that and just turn this off here to 30 minutes so making sure everything is just off the lowest standard and broadcasting left click that and make sure that is turned off as well and then game mode and turning this off now game modes one of those things where I've tested in the past of benchmark did and it literally hasn't made a difference in performance between having it on and off so it's one of those sort of what they call placebo things I think where I haven't noticed any difference even on very slow machines to so after we've disabled all that the networking we don't have to worry about that tab we can then left-click on home and then move across now to ease of access we're right here we can left-click from display show animations in windows and automatically whole hide scroll bars in Windows like to disable that and we can leave show desktop background image on because then your desktops not gonna have any character or personality and moving along here cursor and pointer and magnifier we can leave a lot of these settings alone even than the radar tab but I do like to disable the shortcut key from the raita tab so I don't accidentally turn this narrator on by mistake so I do like to uncheck a lot of these boxes because I never used narrator in general if you do use the narrator then you may wish to leave all this on but I just like to uncheck it all and make sure it's not popping up and causing any problems which I think if you left click sorry if you just press shift a heap of times it'll bring up some annoying display as well but don't do it you're just gonna get a headache but from here we can then go back to the Home tab and move over to search left click that but from here we want to turn off windows cloud search and also my device history as well as left clicking clear my device history and that should make it a little bit better but there's a new feature here and that's the enhanced search so if you've got a really powerful machine and you like using the search bar a lot then you can change that to enhance but I like to leave it on classic I've never had a problem with using the classic search bar but after that we can left click on home and then go back now to the privacy tab left click on that and it's got a lot of options to disconnect and take off so in general we can generally go through and just left click all these take them all off inking and typing personalization I like to turn that off diagnostics and feedback it's now set to basic by default which is good and moving down we can delete left click and on the feedback frequency we can then left-click this and go to never and also the recommended troubleshooting make sure you leave that on ask me before fixing problems so it prompts you and says hey do you want to fix this and you can choose because sometimes windows can get it wrong after this Wingo left click on activity history left click storm activity history on this device and also clear activity history and then from here we can now go down to app permissions which is pretty important because some of these you're going to want to keep on some of these you are going to want to disable for instance location is disabled by default but moving from here we may wish to leave camera on and also microphone especially if you're using Skype discord or other things like that they can rely on these app permissions to be on and in the case of if you disable them then you could have some problems with those applications so do leave these two on but after that voice activation I like to turn this off moving through notification account info same thing just turning all these things off all the way down to other devices where after that we've now got background apps and this is pretty important because this is the apps that run in the background I like to just turn all this off personally but if you do use Microsoft edge for example and you listen to music on YouTube and you've got that in the background then you may wish to disable all these but that particular app for example so what we've got here is just giving you an example if you had edge installed if you use the Spotify app here we can then just leave that one on but again I don't use any of these on my main desktop machine so I just turn them all off and then left clicking on app Diagnostics we can then turn this off here allow apps to access your other apps and automatic file downloads same thing moving through documents left click that turn it off pictures I like to turn this off to videos it's the same thing and then file systems same thing again turn that off after we're done here we can left-click back to home and now we're on the last tab here for Windows settings update and security left click on this and the most important one and a big change here in Windows Update is the way Windows Update works so one windows home you can pause the update for up to 35 days I think I'm you can pause it for up to 365 days but in this case windows update I like to just change the active hours and I like to set this from in the morning till midday so we see here I changing it to midday that's in the morning I generally don't play any games in the morning so I don't have a problem if my computer stutters a little bit but if you're playing games in the morning or whatever you want to change this to the hours where you're not gaming so Windows Update can't potentially come in and effect when you're in the middle of a game and that can potentially cause stutter and obviously cause you to lose the match but there's also automatically adjust active hours based on your activity so if you're not doing much it can then update windows in those times where it knows you're not doing much but at the same time this is then enabling a service in the background which I don't like personally so getting back to this update and security tab we can then now go down to delivery optimization and we can make sure that this is a setting that I like to leave on because all my pcs in my local network here they can all share the updates and that saves me from downloading them to on the internet but do make sure your PC is not on this setting here otherwise you'll literally become a torrent for the rest of people who need in the world Windows updates so after this we go down a Windows security some important features here that I like to disable personally left clicking on that and then left clicking on virus and threat protection we can then go into this tab and then go down to virus um threat protection settings left click manage settings and I like to turn off this here cloud delivered protection and then under that also I like to turn off tamper protection this is a pretty controversial one because I believe this has to do with the recent zombie load and the other meltdown inspector things that are happening with CPUs on intel side me personally I've never ran into a problem with it I honestly think it's just a way to nerf performance on your PC and especially if you're gaming I'm gonna test this setting in some upcoming benchmarks so stay tuned for that but tamper protection I'd turn it off and unless of course you're on a cloud and there's some dude who has an IQ of 200 and he could potentially hack your money out of your bank account if you like me you don't have a whole lot then I don't think you're gonna be too concerned but after that there is a new ransomware setting as well which I believe is off by default but as we go back here left click on this little shield and move down we can see manage ransomware protection and it's off by default so if you're prone for instances mum and dad are at your home and they click on a lot of crappy links you may wish to turn this on and could save you a big headache in the future so after that we're now finished with the windows security tab and that's also makes us finished with the windows setting tab so we can right click and close that down but also now we can move on to a pretty important one it's one that I like to do and that's left click on the search bar down here type in services left click that open that up and what this is going to do so I like to maximize it here by clicking that little link I like to organize these by name which they already are but I also like to organize them by running and so essentially what this does is that shows us all the applications that are running so we can quickly go down for instance to connected user experiences in telemetry we can right click this left click properties left click the startup type go to disabled apply and then stop and then ok that's the first of the services the three services that we're going to disable here next up we can go down to distributed link tracking client and do the exact same thing disable that apply left click stop and then the last one it's one that I haven't disabled before but if again if you're on a touch laptop or a touch base tablet then you may wish to leave this running but I'm on a desktop where I don't use any touch so I'm going to right-click this go to properties and disable it even though it says it's manual it's running for some reason at the moment so I don't want it to run but it can't stop it but at least we disable it it's not going to boot up the next time we start up windows so there are three services I'm disabling we can left-click that and now since we're in our high-performance mode some other tweaks and settings we can do is go down to CMD type that in right click here and run as administrator now if you're on a laptop you don't want to do this again because this is essentially freeing up the space that is reserved for hibernation and since we've on high performance mode and we don't let our computer hibernate we then free up some space on an SSD by typing in power CFG - H off and then hit enter and that will free up some space but moving back down to the desktop now the last few things we have to do is left-click on file explorer and then be a Dora and left-click on view Dora the Explorer that's a little joke I'm trying to Mac wack in here mid Windows 10 optimization but go over to options change folder and then we go over here to view and there's two things we want to disable and that's show sync provider notifications as well as turning off you sharing wizard if you use the sharing wizard don't uncheck it but I never use it so I'm gonna click apply turn those two things off and then the final thing to do is go down the search bar and go type in MS config left click system configuration go over to boot and click no GUI boot click apply click OK exit without restart because we're gonna go down to this little bottom left-hand corner again and we're gonna type in system and we're gonna press spacebar I for some reason this is the only way I that quickly brings it up for me so system I and then we can from here settings we can left click system this brings up our old school system tab and from here we can left click advanced system settings and then from here we go to performance left click settings and here we're essentially going to make the OS interaction a lot snappy oh this really isn't gonna increase performance a whole lot but for me it just makes the experience so much more snappy err so you guys can follow me here and uncheck all the options that I uncheck and this will still keep Windows looking really good but we'll just make it that much more snappy err so click apply click ok go back here now startup and recovery left click on the settings and time to display list of operating systems make sure that's unchecked and then click OK so that'll make Windows boot up just that little bit faster system protection we want to make sure this is off which is is in this case and then we go over to remote left click this left click advanced take off allow this computer to be controlled remotely click OK and then left click this as well this one's pretty important if again you've got mom and dad who don't know anything about computers they're using your computer for instance dad man around tokyo city he sometimes uses a computer and doesn't know anything he's doing clicking on stupid links this is just making sure he doesn't get scammed and no control his computer and sees bank account details for example so left click ok and we're good to go from that tab itself and with that aside that pretty much concludes the windows 1903 optimization guide I hope you guys have enjoyed this one also stay tuned for another video where we're talking about all the changes with 1903 all the cool new features this guide in particular is just for speeding it up making it snappy er disabling all the things for desktop high-performance users who don't want any delays want the best experience possible and another thing too about this guide another good thing and another reason why I know a lot of you guys come to us for this guide is because you can reverse a lot of the settings and changes that are made within this tutorial because I know in the past there's other guides out there that have done reg header hacks and deleted things and they're usually non reversible so you can't reverse those changes and a lot of the times if you had come into a problem you'll have to reinstall windows entirely with this guide here you can reverse pretty much everything I've done here today so if you come into a problem with a certain app and then go back and sort of backtrack some of the changes you've made and you won't have to reinstall windows which can take a lot of time especially if you've set things up the way you like it and with that aside if you guys have lastly any optimizations and tweaks of your own in regards to 1903 and they're really good be sure to add them in the comment section below and if they're good enough and they get enough upvotes they'll be sure to add them in the description for you guys to and with all that out of the way if you're enjoying the content enough umos to consider sub and hitting that Bell notification so you get the videos the they drop and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye