10 Ways | How to Speed Up Windows 11 and Make It Faster🔥

How to speed up Windows 11? Windows 11 is extremely slow? Once you have finished upgrading the operating system from the old OS to the rejuvenated Windows 11. Some users found that their Windows 11 computer is extremely slow.

Windows 11 surprises us with its interface, gaming, Microsoft Store, and more. However, a negative voice does exist about Windows performance, such as Windows 11 running slow. How to speed up Windows 11? How to make Windows 11 faster? In this article, we will show ten ways to optimize Windows 11 performance for smooth use.

Speed Up Windows 11 by 10 Methods

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1. 1. Turn Off Visual Effects
2. 2. Enable Power Plan
3. 3. Extend C Drive to Make Windows 11 Faster
4. 4. Enable Storage Sense
5. 5. Disable Startup Programs
6. 6. Disable Startup Apps
7. 7. Turn Off Notifications
8. 8. Clean Up Temporary Files
9. 9. Defrag Hard Disk for Optimization
10. 10. Use ReadyBoost to Speed Up Windows 11

1. Turn Off Visual Effects

Visual effects are used to decorate your Windows appearance. If your Windows OS is running slow, it’s better to turn off some visual effects.

Step 1. Click the Search icon and type advanced to the search box. Click View advanced system settings.

Step 2. Under the Performance section, click the Settings button.

Step 3. Once the Performance Options pop up, tick Adjust for best performance. You can see the option boxes below, tick Show thumbnails instead of icons, and Smooth edges of screen fonts.

Step 4. Click Apply and then click OK.

2. Enable Power Plan

Power Plan design to manage how to consume and save power. 

Step 1. Open Start Menu and type power plan in the search box. Click Choose a power plan.

Step 2. Search for High-Performance on the next screen > Change Plan Settings > Change Advanced Power Settings

Step 3. Expand Processor power management and confirm the Minimum processor state is 100%.

3. Extend C Drive to Make Windows 11 Faster

Another way to speed up Windows 11 computers is to extend your system drive for better performance. You can use a professional partition software, EaseUS Partition Master, to resize C drive easily. Enlarge the system drive space can improve your device performance. So give it a try. This professional software will not let you down.

In addition to resizing function, this tool can create/format/delete/merge/wipe partitions. So you can trust this tool for safe use.

How to extend C drive with EaseUS Partition Master:

Option 1. Extend System C drive with unallocated space

1. 1. Right-click on the System C: drive and select "Resize/Move".
2. 2. Drag the system partition end into the unallocated space so to add it to the C: drive. And click "OK". 
3. 3. Click "Execute Task" and "Apply" to execute the operations and extend the C drive.

Option 2. Extend System C drive without unallocated space

1. 1. Right-click a big partition with enough free space on the system disk, select "Allocate Space".
2. 2. Select the system drive at the Allocate Space From (*) To section, and drag the end of System C drive into the unallocated space. Click "OK" to confirm.
3. 3. Click "Execute Task", it will list the pending operations, and click "Apply" to save the changes and extend the C drive.

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4. Enable Storage Sense

Step 1. Click the Windows icon on the centered toolbar and click Settings.

Step 2. Navigate to System > Storage, click Storage.

Step 3. Under the Storage part, turn on the storage sense button.

Step 4. Move to Configure Storage Sense page, and choose your cleanup schedules.

5. Disable Startup Programs

Step 1. Click the search icon on the centered toolbar, type Task Manager on the search box.

Step 2. Click the Startup tab and you can a bunch of apps running at startup.

Step 3. Right-click apps you don't want to start at startup, and click Disable.

6. Disable Startup Apps

Step 1. Click on the Windows icon to open Start Menu. Click Settings.

Step 2. Type Startup on the search box and select Startup Apps from the result.

Step 3. Turn off the unnecessary apps you don't want to start automatically.

7. Turn Off Notifications

Step 1. Open Settings on your computer.

Step 2. Go to the System tab and then select Notifications & actions from the left panel.

Step 3. Scroll down and you can see the Notification from apps and other senders part. Turn off the notifications from unwanted apps. Make sure do not disable notifications from important apps.

8. Clean Up Temporary Files

Step 1. Open the Settings from Start Menu.

Step 2. Navigate to the System tab and click Storage.

Step 3. On the next screen, you can see the Temporary files.

Step 4. Click Temporary files and check the files you want to remove.

Step 5. Once it has been done, select Remove files.

9. Defrag Hard Disk for Optimization

Step 1. Type Defragment and Optimize Drives on the search box.

Step 2. You can see the drive options here. Select the system drive and click Optimize button.

10. Use ReadyBoost to Speed Up Windows 11

Step 1. Insert a USB or SD card into your computer.

Step 2. Check your device on Windows Explorer. Right-click the USB and click the Format option from the menu.

Set your "File system" as NTFS, choose "Allocation unit size", and check the Quick Format. Click Start.

Step 3. Once the formatting is finished, right-click USB and select Properties.

Step 4. Click the ReadyBoost tab > Tick Use this device > Click OK.

In this article, we collected ten tips to make Windows 11 faster, including turn off visual effects, change Power Plan, extend C drive, turn on storage sense, and more. No matter what methods you try, make sure your important files are safe.