How to Optimize Windows Systems – 10/Sept/2020

Making your Windows 10 Faster

1. If Possible Take Windows Updates once in a while when there are major announcements
2. Privacy Settings
   • Disable all Privacy Settings
   • Make Diagnostics minimal & don’t share feedback
   • Disable all the location services
   • Turn off background apps
3. Disable Indexing of C-Drive: Ensure you have the specified stated
4. Navigate to run command and execute the below commands and remove the unnecessary startups

shell:common startup
shell:startup

5. Open Task Manager and disable unwanted apps in the startup
6. Lets run the debloater application. Launch Powershell as admin and execute the following command

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://git.io/debloat'))

* In the application launched execute the highlighted items one after other
![Preview](https://directdevops.blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/win8.png)

7. Reboot your system
8. Change your power plan to performance optimized (Optional)
9. Disable hibernate:
   • Open cmd as Adminstrator and execute powercfg.exe /hibernate off
10. Reboot windows 10 your system should be faster than before.
11. After you take latest update from windows you need to run debloater agian (Step 6)