· Customise most of these tweaks in one place by this utility: Wintoys – available in Microsoft store. Another good: Winclean, Rytunes. Toubleshooter: Fixwin. Better do it manually!
Changes in Hardware Settings
1. Disable fast start-up: Control Panel > Power options > Choose what power buttons do > Turn off fast start-up (not good for computer health) and enable hibernate button (also not recommended)
2. Put CPU to high performance: Control Panel > Power options > Create a power plan > High performance (if req) > change plan settings > change advanced power settings > Processor power management: put minimum 10 and max 99.
3. Run this command: sysdm.cpl System properties > Advanced > performance >adjust for best performance > custom. Keep Peek and smooth edges checked. (Another path, Settings > System > About > System Protection)
4. Task scheduler: Expand Task Schedular Library in left panel. Right click on individual task > Properties > Triggers > Edit or disable if not required.
1. Windows 11 Settings You Should Change NOW! Tweaks in settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx3H8BolgaI
2. How to Speed Up Windows 11 to Improve Performance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-aAolflpc
3. How Make Windows 11 Faster | 200% Faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8am0IB13Udg
4. Transleucent effects in Windows 11 Windhawk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDAdfMLDzik
1. Never disable unwanted services. Keep them on manual mode so that whenever required, they can be summoned into action. Here, https://youtu.be/GycBonDFmvo?si=2TAM3N-irj-xoXcK are given services with explanation. Keep them on manual. Disable: Assigned access manager, bitlocker drive, Bluetooth services, Connected user experience and telemetry, diagnostic services, geolocation, Game DVR, Netlogon, Parental control, Phone services, Program compatibility assistent service , Sensor service, Smart card services, sysmain, wallet service, windows biometric, work folder, widows update delivery optimization service, windows mobile hotspot service, all xbox services , Windows error reporting service,
Next: Under Windows update in settings > Advanced > Delivery optimization > Disable allow downloads from other PCs.
Many third party apps run their background services, which are unnecessary. Here is how to stop them: msconfig > system config > services > hide all MS services > Find out unwanted srvices.
2. Come out of automatic repair loop: https://youtu.be/L0rCvSLtOn4?si=tMgXca9OkIf8_U8i
3. After setting up system restore, do these two things: a. Under Task Schedular, disable systemrestore. B. Under services, keep volume shadow service running and keep on manual.
4. Use Winareo tweaker for stop windows update, disable Bing in Windows search, verbose logon messages etc. Another setting to speed up context menu: Change Menu show delay from 400 ms to 100 ms
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Random Windows Tweaks:
a. To see the description of actual process during start/shut down: WinAreo tweaker. Boot and Login > Enable verbose log on messages.
b. Reliability monitor is a concise graphical event viewer.
c. Win + H = online speech to text converter
d. Show file extensions: File explorer > View > Options > View > uncheck hide extensions for known file types. I use File Pilot
e. To enhance clarity of image use Image enhancer/ upscaler.
f. Confirm before deleting a file: Click on Recycle Bin > Properties > Enable ‘Display delete confirmation dialogue’
g. In MS Word, replace italics quotation marks with normal ones: Go to File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options> Autoformat▪▪ . Uncheck "Straight quotes" with “smart quotes” Don't forget to disable Updates for other Microsoft products (this includes MS office updates also)under Advanced options of Updates in seetings. A big headache. If this option is not available, Open word/excel > File > Account > Disable Updates. Or Simple registry change following this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDpR5syU3_o 1:50 onwards If you cant see office folder in your registry, you need to create it manually. Ask chatGPT to guide you.
While copy-pasting in word, an irritating icon comes up very often. To get rid of it: File > Options > Advanced > Scroll down to the Cut, copy, and paste section > Uncheck the box labeled:“Show Paste Options button when content is pasted.”OK.
h. Under 'Choose which folder appear on the Start Menu' only keep settings and remove all clutter
i. Windows performance and speed dramatically improved after disabling Bing search results in Cortana and Taskbar search. Winareo > Disable search in Task bar
j. Change Font size ~112 and Custom scaling 105 under advanced scaling settings. Choose system font: Microsoft JhangHei on Winareo tweaker. Another simple setting: Font size 115-118, custom scaling: none, opera font settings 14-14. See in settings in Performance (smooth edges) are not disturbed.
k. Colors settings: Choose Custom. Windows mode: Dark App mode: Light . Automatically pick accent color. Show accent color on: Start, task, Title … all.
l. To check the status of the internal drive, Download CrystalDiskInfo Standard Edition. Run it (no install needed if you choose portable). Check the health status box: Good (Blue) → Drive is fine, Caution (Yellow) → Drive starting to fail, Bad (Red) → Replace drive ASAP
m. To prevent Firefox from starting up automatically: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-starts-automatically-when-i-restart-window
n. Smooth scrolling: Open opera://flags. Enable smoth scrolling. In settings > mouse > Choose minimum no of lines to scroll
Useful Commands:
1. Find ip address, gateway etc. ipconfig /all
2. CPU. Ram information: dxdiag
3. winver for windows version
4. sysdm.cpl - opens system properties where you can adjust performance etc.
5. powercfg.cpl – adjust power plan and related settings (also start > rt click)
6. osk – on screen keyboard
7. control userpasswords2 – access user account settings
8. timedate.cpl - modify time and date
9. appwiz.cpl open installed programs
10. charmap opens special characters
11. shutdown /r /fw boot into bios
12. To access IPV4 properties, change adapter options > Ethernet > rt click
13. To enable lock screen automatically after a specified period of inactivity: Run secpol.msc > Local Policies > Security options > Interactive logon:Machine inactivity limit - set in seconds
How CHATgpt solved my problem of slow dongle speed:
1. Run in cmd:
2. ping 192.168.1.1
▪ If this fails → your PC is not even talking to the dongle (driver/USB issue).
▪ If this works but internet is dead → routing issue inside Windows.
3. Run:
tracert 8.8.8.8
▪ This will show where packets stop.
4. Run:
▪ Then restart your PC.
*Avoid too many VPN/Proxy tools – they often mess with Winsock. Now available in .bat file
4. In another instance, changing DNS server in IPV4 properties increased the speed dramatically. Use Google (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) or Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1) server IPs for preferred and alternate.
5. To take care of multiple problems associated with network: Resetting the network: Settings → Network & Internet → Advanced network settings → Network reset
6. Power Settings: Go to Device Manager → USB Root Hub. Uncheck:“Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”
7. Clean browser cache.
GETTING OUT OF AUTOMATIC REPAIR LOOP
1. Go to troubleshoot and open command prompt and run following commands one by one:
bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /scanos, chkdsk /f /r/ c: ,exit and continue to OS
2. System restore
3. Startup settings > restart > press F4 > safe mode. Rt click C drive > disc cleanup > delete temp files
4. Use recovery USB to boot into os and then use system image USB to restore everything.
WHEN THE ELECTRICITY CUT DISRUPTS THE PC ABRUPTLY:
When you start the CPU, you may be asked to press F1 to run Boot setup because sudden shutdown may temporarily confuse the BIOS about which drive to boot from. In BIOS, check Boot Order in Boot Priority menu. Windows Boot Manager or your main SSD/HDD must be the first. You can drag it with mouse and then save the changes. System restore or sfc /scannow won't fix boot issues.
