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You are looking to free up some ram? There are some steps that you can take to do that, new laptop come with excessive bloatware.
If your laptop has limited RAM, there are inherent constraints on how much you can do to make Windows run faster without upgrading the RAM. Here’s why:
Multitasking Capabilities: With limited RAM, your laptop will struggle to handle multiple applications running at the same time. This is because each application consumes a portion of the available memory. When the RAM is fully utilized, the system starts using virtual memory, which involves swapping data to and from the hard drive or SSD. This process is significantly slower than accessing data directly from RAM.
System Responsiveness: Limited RAM can lead to sluggish performance and longer loading times for applications and files. This happens because when there isn’t enough memory available, Windows has to constantly move data between the RAM and storage drives, causing delays.
Performance Bottlenecks: Certain tasks such as gaming, video editing, or running virtual machines require substantial amounts of memory. If your laptop doesn’t have enough RAM to support these tasks efficiently, you’ll experience noticeable slowdowns and performance bottlenecks.
Download O&O APP buster, remove all the preinstalled crap.
Download O&O ShutUp10, move it to your documents folder.
Right click run as admin.
Go to actions, apply all settings.
Create the restore point when prompted.
Follow thru the prompts, and reboot if needed to apply the settings.
Disable Hyper-V
Create and run batch file.
Open a notepad and copy the entire content of the code box below.
Paste the txt into the notepad. Save the file to your desktop as 123.bat
Now you will right click the on 123.bat and run as administrator.
There are two programs to manage your startups and scheduled task:
What's in startup. ============ > Click Here
TaskSchedulerView.============> Click Here
Limit how much windows update uses your bandwidth!
Click on the Start button (Windows icon) located on your taskbar.
Select Settings from the Start menu.
In the Settings window, click on Windows Update from the left sidebar.
On the right side of the Windows Update page, click on Advanced options.
Under the “Additional options” section, find and click on Delivery Optimization.
Click on Advanced options within the Delivery Optimization settings.
Here, you will see two main sections for configuring bandwidth:
Download settings
Upload settings
This is how I have mine set.
Additional Considerations:
Easy Service Optimizer to disable some task.
UblockOrigin.
System Ninja to disable startups, and also clean the system of temp files.
If your laptop has limited RAM, there are inherent constraints on how much you can do to make Windows run faster without upgrading the RAM. Here’s why:
Multitasking Capabilities: With limited RAM, your laptop will struggle to handle multiple applications running at the same time. This is because each application consumes a portion of the available memory. When the RAM is fully utilized, the system starts using virtual memory, which involves swapping data to and from the hard drive or SSD. This process is significantly slower than accessing data directly from RAM.
System Responsiveness: Limited RAM can lead to sluggish performance and longer loading times for applications and files. This happens because when there isn’t enough memory available, Windows has to constantly move data between the RAM and storage drives, causing delays.
Performance Bottlenecks: Certain tasks such as gaming, video editing, or running virtual machines require substantial amounts of memory. If your laptop doesn’t have enough RAM to support these tasks efficiently, you’ll experience noticeable slowdowns and performance bottlenecks.
Download O&O APP buster, remove all the preinstalled crap.
Download O&O ShutUp10, move it to your documents folder.
Right click run as admin.
Go to actions, apply all settings.
Create the restore point when prompted.
Follow thru the prompts, and reboot if needed to apply the settings.
Disable Hyper-V
Create and run batch file.
Open a notepad and copy the entire content of the code box below.
Paste the txt into the notepad. Save the file to your desktop as 123.bat
Now you will right click the on 123.bat and run as administrator.
Code:
@echo off
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" /v SmartScreenEnabled /t REG_SZ /d Off /f
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection /f /v AllowTelemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0
reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\AdvertisingInfo /f /v DisabledByGroupPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1
reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters" /v DisabledComponents /t REG_DWORD /d 255 /f
wmic nicconfig where (IPEnabled=TRUE) call SetDNSServerSearchOrder ("1.1.1.1", "1.0.0.1")
manage-bde -off C:
manage-bde -off D:
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns
sc stop WSearch
sc stop lfsvc
sc stop DiagTrack
sc stop dmwappushservice
sc stop RetailDemo
sc stop SysMain
sc config DiagTrack start= disabled
sc config dmwappushservice start= disabled
sc config lfsvc start= disabled
sc config WSearch start= disabled
sc config RetailDemo start= disabled
schtasks /Change /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\NetTrace\GatherNetworkInfo" /disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\BthSQM" /disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Consolidator" /disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\KernelCeipTask" /disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\Uploader" /disable
schtasks /Change /TN "Microsoft\Windows\Customer Experience Improvement Program\UsbCeip" /disable
pause
exitThere are two programs to manage your startups and scheduled task:
What's in startup. ============ > Click Here
TaskSchedulerView.============> Click Here
Limit how much windows update uses your bandwidth!
Click on the Start button (Windows icon) located on your taskbar.
Select Settings from the Start menu.
In the Settings window, click on Windows Update from the left sidebar.
On the right side of the Windows Update page, click on Advanced options.
Under the “Additional options” section, find and click on Delivery Optimization.
Click on Advanced options within the Delivery Optimization settings.
Here, you will see two main sections for configuring bandwidth:
Download settings
Upload settings
This is how I have mine set.
Additional Considerations:
Easy Service Optimizer to disable some task.
UblockOrigin.
System Ninja to disable startups, and also clean the system of temp files.
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Absolutely not.
If Mal's ideas to free up the memory you have and make it 'go further' doesn't give you want you want, you will have to physically add more RAM to the laptop.
Luckily, adding more RAM is one of the easier laptop upgrades.
Most have an access panel on the underside, and the others you just remove the whole undercover.
Give us your make/model of the laptop.
Also, give us the make/model of the older laptop. If you still have it, with any luck the ram could be compatible with the new computer. So it would be a simple transplant operation. I’m not suggesting you just go in there and swap it out blindly. We should help you make sure it’s ok to do so. 👌
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