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@Cattasticbass

2 ай бұрын

and yes undervolting and gpu overclocking is the best thing to do. Got my 2080Ti down to 210 watts of power draw without effort on stock clocks

@jackhanma6848

2 ай бұрын

the thing i think happens as well is the people following these guides are inexperienced with them. maybe even just built their own pc and dont know that you can only overclock a pc to a certain extent before you end up doing this. knew someone who got a crypto miner that would take a lot of resources. so it ended up turning the pc off as it exceeded what it could do. each time they turned it on it turned back off. its not bad to follow a guide but before you overclock or whatever else you should look into the stuff they are doing to see what each thing is doing for your pc as well as what your pc can take/doesnt need active for it to actually run. though i feel that is part of the fun. figuring out what works just right for you and your system.

@johnmckenna1776

2 ай бұрын

Excellent video & great advice!

@FreeDooMusic

Ай бұрын

You found the menu where to disable the new printscreen feature from the printscreen button. instant disable for me. thanks!

@mattstroker3742

16 күн бұрын

System optimization has been my job for 10 years. Windows xp/dos/95/98/vista/7. Softwarewise. It would really help people out, making systems more stable and faster. So apart from adding more memory or installing a new hdd with a clean install, you couldn't really do much about its slowness; no SSD drives existed. So... Software tweaking it was.

"Let's take away the dislike button" KZread said. What could go wrong? I remember when you could spot bad advice straight away, just from the ratio.

@Lord_common_sense

Ай бұрын

Stop complaining then and just use return KZread dislikes lol

@Toothily

Ай бұрын

@@Lord_common_sense I do, but it doesn't work the same way, it's just not as accurate. Also doesn't help on mobile or TV.

@TryffeliPossu

Ай бұрын

Am on mobile and I am using it​@@Toothily

@Skeleton-wn2zu

Ай бұрын

​@@Lord_common_senseI agree with @Toothily, the plugin your talking about doesn't record accurate enough data and is not universal enough to be used to make reliable decisions. KZread should re-add the dislike counter, It would save a lot of people valuable time and money.

@Lord_common_sense

Ай бұрын

@@Skeleton-wn2zu they will likely never do and it is accurate wdyfm

I have not kept my data on the boot drive for over 20 years. With drives being so affordable, there is no reason not to have separate data/gaming drives. You can move your documents folder to a drive other than C:\. This lessens the stress of rebuilding your boot drive.

@moorhen6156

2 ай бұрын

indeed i learnt many years ago if it's important to you dont keep it on the same drive as windows also i keep windows on its own drive and install evey thing i can on the D drive that way i can reset windows and only loose like winrar and some drivers

@user-od4gs3iu4t

2 ай бұрын

I use all the variety of affordable these days storage media, which include: 1. SSD as a primary system, data workflow drive. 2. Compact memory cards for their reasonable price and compact size ) - they are use for some rarely used files/archives/finished projects whatsoever. and 3. HDDs for a long-term data storage, backups, and for their best price per TB. Nothing, even old HDDs are wasted, they just used for extra backup

@xellaz

2 ай бұрын

Yea, learned this quick myself when I used to use Windows as my main OS. Now I'm using Linux and still does this. It makes restoring your data much easier if your personal files are separated from the main OS drive.

@XeonProductions

2 ай бұрын

Same here. I also have anything really important backed up on an external drive and in off-site storage.

@DevilbyMoonlight

2 ай бұрын

Same here, I came from years of using Amiga's with hard drives like the 2000's and 4000's to the PC in the early 90's, and always kept the workbench drive clear of apps and the BBS I was running, so was used it to keeping things separate, this is something UNIX and Linux has always got right but where windows has always fallen on its face ...

When you're as old a user as I am, you learn to stick with vanilla settings in your registry. Here's a good rule of thumb: Anything that requires you to go into a scary looking menu you never seen before during normal use of your Windows is probably a bad idea. Save yourself a lot of headaches and quit while you're ahead.

@ghost-user559

2 ай бұрын

Linux and Mac both have poweruser prizes at the end of those scary menus and very little risk if any to the system. It’s specially a windows trap to tinker, and indeed it seems to be intentionally designed to punish you for trying to use your own system. So Windows software is as locked down as Mac hardware, but in some great irony it seems that Mac OS is far harder to break via tinkering, whereas one single change in WIndows registry can bork your entire system immediately.

@PaulHawkins

Ай бұрын

When you're as old a PC Tech as I am, you learn exactly what settings in your Registry to change to get Windoze out of the "Middle of the Road" into the Fast Lane‼️ The guys I learned the Best Registry Hacks from were the Gamers❗️Why should They get to have Blazing Systems and not The Rest Of Us⁉️ They Knew How to scrape the Registry for the Best Performance and Keep the System Running.

@ColinsCity

Ай бұрын

@@ghost-user559 when my ssd failed thanks to the seller using a fake ssd i was using certain commands in MacOS and it would always say not to do it if you weren't experienced in it. There seems to be a lot of these tech videos on what to do to speed up or enhance your computer experience and it always ends up with damage to the system, even something as basic as getting an external microphone to work on MacOS is difficult to follow with these youtube videos because they state a whole lot of nothing or just inaccurate techniques that don't work especially on the retina macbooks.

@ghost-user559

Ай бұрын

@@ColinsCity Yeah I have gone down the rabbit hole for tinkering with different systems. I like that MacOS warns you, but so far I have never actually broken anything by changing anything on my Mac. Windows doesn’t warn you, and even a simple change can be very difficult and wreak havoc on your system. The one exception in MacOS is “permissions”. Don’t ever change them lol. That’s the only time I ever actually had to reinstall because the system was locked out of access to my drive. So as long as you don’t change permissions for files you don’t have a good understanding of, you should not run into any issues.

@stansova3138

Ай бұрын

That is why today I use Linux and Amiga Emulators on my computers. They work excellent, and if you are into data basing well Amiga has some excellent do everything data bases.

Reminds me of the back in the 90s 'joke' advice to delete a certain system file. I did so having backed up the system, thinking I could recover, being PC savvy, and had to reinstall all my files from backup, losing hours.

@CouchPotator

2 ай бұрын

just delete the folder "system32" in your "Windows" folder. This is where Windows stores all of it's bloated and useless components (as well as all the necessary ones too, for those that don't get the joke)

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

Another similar advice was to delete the AOL virus ;-)

@ThortheMerciless

9 күн бұрын

Except that AOL was worse than a virus - like Norton and Mcafee.

I have a 3 prong approach to taming windows. 1. Disable anything non-essential from startup, 2. uninstall any software that you do not use anymore, and 3. REBOOT YOUR MACHINE AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. With the last being the *easiest* solution to a ridiculous amount of weird system behavior, and for some reason is the one thing that nobody ever wants to do.

@analogicparadox

2 ай бұрын

Y'all don't shut down your computers daily?

@devinodonnell

2 ай бұрын

Most folks just leave it running until the magic smoke escapes. 😑

@datriaxsondor590

2 ай бұрын

​@@analogicparadox You mean, you "do" shut down your computer daily? Haven't shutdown a single PC I've owned since I started building them, and that was about 20 years ago. I shut them down for a good cleaning every 6 months, and that's about it. That's what power profiles are for. Like each time you start a car, each time you start your computer, is where the most damage is done, especially if you still use spinning HDDs. Repeated thermal expansion and contraction of the CPU and GPU die, is also something to consider. But, to each their own. Do what you will with your own property. 👍

@user-od4gs3iu4t

2 ай бұрын

starting up/down for computer is not the same as for a car. Computer cpu/gpu and in less extent also memory and other components are much more stressed under heavy load/idle cycle than start up/shut down cycle. Spinning up HDDs is also not valid any more cause manufacturers made this cycle count end of life quite significant. HDDs still die, and may die any moment, but there is no confirmation that any moderate load or frequent (like every 10 min) spinning up/down cycle decreases the life expectation. HDDs are still the primary data storage. And if someone doesn't use it, then it's highly likely that person just doesn't count money

@flipperzero9662

2 ай бұрын

You shouldn't be running a computer for 24 hours without a reboot, ever. A week is fucken ridiculous, how lazy do you gotta be to go to the menu and restart the damn pc....

The biggest mistake ppl make is to store personal files on the system disk. Hard-/sym-linking files and folders to a different drive probably is a bit intimidating to some and takes some getting used to, but it's worth it. It reduces a broken Windows install from a catastrophe to the annoyance of having to set up a new system when you hadn't planned on spending time on it.

@STCatchMeTRACjRo

2 ай бұрын

i would say most who do this mistakes don't know what hard-/sym-linking is. Maybe they dont even try it out on a virtual machine first.

@protator

2 ай бұрын

@@STCatchMeTRACjRoProbably, but Windows actually has that functionality built-in now, at least for the default folders. Ppl can relocate their files without having to install tools or understand what's going on under the hood. Moving their documents and pictures folders etc to an inexpensive StorageSpaces array could prevent a worst case scenario for most. Even the cases of most pre-built systems have room for a cost effective solution like e.g. two 2.5" Intenso SSDs. It's frustrating to see so many ppl willing to spend time tinkering with Win components but not spare a few thoughts and maybe 50 bucks to protect their data.

@Cavi587

Ай бұрын

The best solution would be to invest in Network Attached Storage. You can buy complete solutions like Synology or QNAP or set it up yourself using an old computer, a couple of hard drives and a free and open source NAS operating system called TrueNAS. It is a lot safer and more durable than any single disk that's in an actively used PC where something can go wrong. And you can access this storage from any machine in your network! Even your smartphone.

@throwaway6478

Ай бұрын

@@protator It's had that ability for a long, LONG time - I think it was added to Properties in Windows XP, and before that, you just changed some registry entries.

@stansova3138

Ай бұрын

That is why I use a USB stick, I save all my stuff on it. and keep their cloud EMPTY, and their drawers in the shit bin Other wise MicroSoft and other companies steal your bit buckets.

Another thing you can do to access a borked system is get a Linux image on a USB stick and boot into that, in case you only have one PC. Once you've backed up the data you can then reinstall windows, or just install Linux if you want to move away from Microsoft's spyware of an OS.

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

The very first thing I do with a new computer, is boot into Linux and make an image of the hard disk for "out of box experience". Now THAT is a re-install!

@PaulHawkins

Ай бұрын

Linux to the Rescue⁉️ No‼️ Start with installing Linux on the System, then install Winderz in a Virtual Machine. I used to call it "Cocooning". That way, when Winderz inevitably Borked itself, you only had to go back to the Last good Snapshot and you're back to "Normal" in a few minutes.

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

@@PaulHawkins Yes. Snapshots are *amazing* . I use Oracle Virtual Box for the same benefit; but a host running QEMU or similar is the same but less vulnerable to Stuff. As it happens, Linux can shapshot itself if you are using the LVM, Logical Volume Manager, which is handy just in case an update causes a big malfunction which sometimes is the case. You update a library and kaboom, fourteen processes that depended on it suddenly fail.

@linuxtuxvolds5917

21 күн бұрын

You're 2 years out of luck - Windows 11 encrypts the boot drives of your system now by default, so if your OS is corrupt, your only solution is to buy a new computer, as you probably lost your Windows key, as well

If you reinstalling Windows, check if you have programs that you need to "unregister" them (usually professional applications) or you might be stuck working with their tech support for days to get them registered again.

@babaecalus

2 ай бұрын

Great tip! Forgot once... Never again.

@ChakkyCharizard

16 күн бұрын

this is why for a lot of things i will buy a legitimate copy and then continue using the pirated version lol

I Have been an IT admin for over 25 years... and I have seen people do some strange things to their computer. Like actually call phone numbers in phishing e-mail, or follow instructions from spam pop-ups. Do these people follow the advice to backup their computers? (Oh hell NO they do not ever back up their stuff) You cannot fix stupid and you cannot make a computer idiot proof. The ONLY way they will learn is by being burned dozens of times. And yes some very intelligent and thoughtful friends and family have been burned time and time again. And other friends and family I am just waiting for it to happen to them. BUT people learn be DOING and by EXPERIENCE.... and most will only learn AFTER they have been screwed. (And some not even then)

@Cavi587

Ай бұрын

This is the consequence of giving the masses an easy access to computers with easy GUIs and no knowledge required. Back in the DOS or early Linux days you had to really know what you're doing to use a computer. Of course, overall accesibility is a good thing and I am not trying to gatekeep computing. But it's undeniable that most PC users lack basic skills because they never had to learn them. And in the end it comes back to bite them in the ass. We should educate people more.

@TheCynysterMind

Ай бұрын

@@Cavi587 I would say more of a lack of parenting... Parents used to instill a sense of curiosity. Most people in my generation and before were ever curious how things worked and how can I get this thing to do other stuff that maybe it was not designed to do. A computer is the ultimate "Swiss Army Knife"

@Cavi587

Ай бұрын

@@TheCynysterMind Yeah, perhaps you're right. Now kids are being taught not to step out of the line by their parents and by their teachers in school. I guess it's up to every individual who becomes a parent to try and raise their kids so that they have the tools to think for themselves and explore what seems interesting to them.

@foxskyful

Ай бұрын

​@@TheCynysterMind You are over the top with "lack of parenting" when comes to this.

@crisalcantara7671

Ай бұрын

i agree with everything you say , as humans this is how we learn , even animals learn trough making mistakes first and than getting smarter by remembering the risks and avoiding them .i love learning knew stuff but don't like making mistakes like most people lol. remind me of a quote "live and learn" 😁😁

I REALLY appreciate you man. I came from poor family and criminals and assholes, so growing up? No opportunity to go to school or access tech. I'm a Gen X'er, so all of my knowledge is hard-won shit. I've taught myself everything I know, and also research (like you CLEARLY evidenced you do yourself) my ass off. Years ago I made a pact with myself. "Save your money until you can buy the thing capable of doing the things just one or two steps beyond what YOU will do with it" And that self-advice has never failed me. I purposefully build a few steps beyond what I could ever need, that way tweaks and performance really never come to mind. More creators need to do what you did right here. Thank you, for using your means and knowledge for something other than talking about Diddy and whatever inane inconsequential bullshit is trending. :)

The best advice to increase performance is just to disable telemetry

@Cavi587

Ай бұрын

Sadly you can only disable some stuff, but a lot of telemetry is locked in and you can't change that. The only solution is to switch to an open source operating system that actually respects it's users.

The only thing I really don't like about a fresh windows install instead of upgrading is that I have so many things installed that I need to reinstall from scratch. Especially since it's my daily driver for years now.

@xellaz

2 ай бұрын

I know that feeling. Later on you will learn to backup all your important files and restore them on a freshly installed OS. 😅 If you try to learn Linux and switch to it, it is surprisingly easier to manage (depending on your distro) and reinstalling your apps again as Linux uses app repos (kind of like Google Playstore) and you don't have to hunt for apps on different websites or accidentally install a malware.

@dh2032

2 ай бұрын

@@xellaz no install a malware coming from Linux app repos downloads? how does that work, so is some watch what's going on app repos, and looking out for a malware here or there?

@xfy123

2 ай бұрын

​@@dh2032the repos are maintained by either the distro devs or other volunteers, most also use package signing so it checks if the thing you are installing is the right one. I can't remember the last time that a package was malware, the only thing that comes to mind is the Linux Mint website being hacked and having the iso changed to a version with a backdoor in like 2016.

@scamdem1c

2 ай бұрын

@@dh2032 never seen or even heard of it happening. its probably very rare

@night_fiend6326

2 ай бұрын

​@@dh2032in Linux the official repositories packages are built by the distribution developers themselves. There are third-party repositories, those are generally safe, but you can look at the code or build script yourself.

Don't use Windows to recover data off a drive that came out of a Windows system. The take ownership of files requirement is a dumb Windows limitation. Instead boot to a Linux distro, like Linux Mint for instance and you can copy files directly without having to run any scripts.

It's unbelievable what people are willing to risk, just for "a few fps more". Also, I must admit, that I find it hilarious, every time (and it happens regularly) I see / hear someone complain about "extremely bad performance", on what SHOULD be a top spec PC, because of too much tinkering with "optimizations". The following is actually a TRUE experience!! Not long ago, a fellow Flight-simmer, with a pretty nice rig (Ryzen 7 7800 3D, 32 gigs of DDR5 ram, and a RTX 4080), had WORSE performance in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, than I have with my (pretty much) Meh, Ryzen 5 4600G, 32 gigs of DDR4 and RTX 2060. The difference? First of : Even though his settings were different than mine, they were actually not THAT different!! He basically ran MSFS in 1080 and upscaled it, and only had marginally higher LOD settings etc. than me, since he prefers performance over "overblown cosmetics" (as he puts it). Anyway. The difference : He had "optimized" the HELL out of his PC - while I haven't. 😏😉 To round things off, I just need to tell, that he has managed to "de-optimize" his PC - and it absolutely runs BETTER THAN EVER. 😉👍 And DEFINITELY better than mine!!!!! 🤣

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

21 күн бұрын

clean out your bloat and computer porno

I also am among that group that keeps data on a separate drive from the Windows drive. Regardless, I had to replace two SSDs in the past year. Both were PNY 500GB drives, and both failed, so my trust in that brand has dropped quite a bit. Reinstalling Windows was a pain, but there was minimal loss of information, because everything important was on a second drive, which itself is backed up to another drive. So much data - so few drives.

@silvy7394

2 ай бұрын

Sounds more like an issue with your storage choice than where your data is. PNY is a cheapo brand bottom of the barrel. I've kept a lot of my data on the boot drive ever since I owned a PC. Never had a failure. Even my old 6gb WD Caviar that ran for 15 years still works today.

@pacicidal

Ай бұрын

Yeah, PNY drives are really prone to failure. IIRC, the controller chipsets meant to improve the lifespan of the drives do the opposite, and are usually the root cause of the SSD failing. I lost several years worth of backup files that way, and had the misfortune of the drive failure somehow going so catastrophically wrong it killed my laptop's motherboard. PNY drives are a very ill advised purchase.

@Trainboy1EJR

26 күн бұрын

The only PNY brand anything that is still working (probably) is a 2gb micro SD card that I used for GamesNMusic for the DS Lite. Literally everything else has failed. A 2gb flash drive (I’m partially responsible for this one). GT220 1GB (fan died). 256gb 150mb/s flash drive (corrupts files, doesn’t maintain that speed past 5 seconds). A 16gb C6 SD card, and I think there was one more I can’t remember…

Beautiful video lad, it goes directly to the troubleshooting playlist!

Al lesson to learn from this: NEVER CHANGE REGISTRY VALUES WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THEY DO!! USE YOUR CRITICAL THINKING!

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

"USE YOUR CRITICAL THINKING!" I doubt you can critical think your way into knowing what ten thousand registry keys DO.

@2137xd

25 күн бұрын

critical thinking can lead u into googling stuff and some of the names are pretty striaght forward@@thomasmaughan4798

@nishainwoods

17 күн бұрын

"USE YOUR CRITICAL THINKING!" I doubt you saw how he changed a 0 DWORD value to guess what... A 0 DWORD VALUE and pretended it broke his pc.

3:15 imagine we had some sort of magic way of seeing if a video is dangerous.. for example a dumbs up button, but doint the opposite

My PC has 17.25TB Storage capacity (500GB for Windows and 16.75TB for Linux) and I have still space left for more drives!

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

21 күн бұрын

man your a noob I have 48 terabytes of hard disk space so you have no space compared to me noob linux user🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 24 tera bytes across 3 terabyte ssd's a 20 terabyte external drive on usb and 2 2 terabyte nvme drives

Only happened across your channel today. Absolutely top-notch advice.

Stability is more important than performance.

Linux users... assemble :P

@DaleDix

Ай бұрын

Which distro is popular this month?

@naterest5033

Ай бұрын

@@DaleDix ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm using CachyOS (arch-based) myself

@stansova3138

Ай бұрын

Remember even with Linux your drawers can still be stolen, I store all my stuff on USB sticks. and only plug them in when I need them.

@naterest5033

Ай бұрын

@@stansova3138 that's a very good way of keepimg your files safe

First video I’ve watched on this guy and I love it, I’ve learned quite a bit (I’ve been learning about tech on PC’s for over a year now and I learnt something new) Now that’s a good youruber

Many years ago, I had some "clean up" software, and it listed various registry entries it said were redundant and it gave me the option to leave or remove them. So i removed them. When I turned my printer on and tried to print something a few days later, nothing happened because files and registry keys were missing. Luckily, all I needed to do was re-install the driver. As an extra precaution, i have always stored important information, pictures, documents, etc. On a separate partition and never the C drive, so I can wipe the C drive in complete safety, I also make tegular backups.

Not only would reinstalling Windows get rid of some bloatware but if you bought a used PC reinstalling Windows will get any spyware and malware off. This is assuming that its BIOS is not infected with Logofail or something similar that a reinstall does not get rid of. Also there are BIOS updates for Logofail. I don't know if they help at all or much but look and see if an update for your BIOS is available. Just beware that updating a BIOS is potentially risky as it can leave you stuck with a PC that will not boot or even power on. Make sure to get the one you need for your exact model and revision motherboard. Also make sure that the power is not likely to go out while you do this. It does not usually take too long. Also you may notice your computer shutting down or restarting. Just let it do its thing and keep in mind that the first boot after the update is going to take longer. Don't try to rush this!! Just let it do its thing. If you are impatient or don't like waiting just get up from the chair and go do something to pass the time. Just whatever you do give it time. Windows might download some updates too. Also watch out on Windows 11, it may download a BIOS update and restart your computer to install it. It is the same deal, don't interrupt it. Don't let it do it if the weather is bad and the power might go out. If that happens your computer might be screwed up!!

@Cavi587

Ай бұрын

"but if you bought a used PC reinstalling Windows will get any spyware and malware off." My brother, Windows in itself is spyware. If you're worried about your privacy you should not use it as Microsoft doesn't value you as a consumer, they value your data that they can exploit and sell.

I optimised my computer by replacing Windows with Linux. No bloat. No advertising. No BS.

@nikkis1173

26 күн бұрын

I prefer to lose an access to some of my programs and games instead of using this shitty os. I hate windows with passion

@linuxuser4895

18 күн бұрын

Everybody knows the best way to speed up your PC is removing c:\windows\system32

Problems in a computer are generally sitting in front of the screen, not inside the tower.

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

21 күн бұрын

stop watching computer porn problem solved kid🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

my system did this but i wasnt trying to optimizer anything. i was doing a system wipe to speed things up and windows just broke itself on the reinstall. gave up trying to fix it and downloaded linux

@theairacobra

2 ай бұрын

welcome to linux, what's your poison? im on arco rn

@manspiderparkerpeter5810

Ай бұрын

@@theairacobra been through a few distros to find what fits my needs and computer knowledge. i tried a few arch based distros but always ran into problems like not picking up my spare HDD and i am not ready to fix that kind of stuff. settled on mint in the end as it just works out of the box. i also duel boot zorin due to mint not recognising my turtle beech react-r controller.

@theairacobra

Ай бұрын

@@manspiderparkerpeter5810 cool, those are some weird issues, never had compatibility issues thankfully because my maim laptops are thinkpads and I chose my PC with Linux compatibility in mind, arch is pretty fucking unstable but the AUR is a gift from god

Useful tips. Thank you!

This needs far more views. Having worked with PCs since the late 80s, I have run across too many people that just throw advice at the wall and hope something sticks to make them look smart. If you don't know what the advice actually does, you will cause more harm than good. This is why, when repairing friend/relative PCs or on a home repair call, I have a blank 2TB m.2 external drive that I will first use to back up their windows folder (I used to use a 2TB HDD, man that thing took forever). Yes, even with all my experience, sometimes I screw up too. The main factor? NOT ALL PCS ARE THE SAME! You can't just hand out registry edit info and service disabling/deletion and expect every PC they are used on to keep working. Even debloating can cause issues. (My only PC right now is an ASUS laptop, and if you try removing all of the ASUS bloatware, the PC loses around 40% of its performance, and experiences random crashes) Maybe one day KZread will get smart and start removing content that actually causes harm. Until then, gems like this video will be hidden in the pile of garbage that is harmful content.

Excellent video. Informative and truth.

You know what I find crazy is them people who use them Debloat scripts and don't know nothing about what it does or change, sure it disableds things and uninstalls things, but often times they go out of their way to change things and breaks the OS, if not immediately but will later when something doesn't update, or some weird issue. And they don't help much anyway, Disable crap in the startup and uninstall the preinstalled garbage and leave it be.

You can install Windows on the same partition that you had on your previous system, the new Windows installation will create a new folder called windows.old. This year I went to update a firmware on an NVMe drive, "which apparently the SSD required in order to function properly (it didn't need it anyways)", and it ended up by corrupting my Windows after rebooting it. By doing it the way I said, I didn't lose any important data.

Thx for sharing. I have a "Gaming" pc and a "work" pc whichs keeps the gaming pc clean. I use to dual boot, but that is more advanced. Good luck

If you dont have an external drive enclosure you could also use the windows recovery console, which is really just command prompt but with extra recovery tools which you wont need for this. All connected drives are accessible so you can robocopy your entire C drive to another disk. Its a little bit more complicated, but cost nothing extra.

@SaraMorgan-ym6ue

21 күн бұрын

and stop watching that computer porn that you keep watching kid🤣🤣

Hiren's USB is a useful tool for situations like this if you don't have an extra pc to access the files, and it's pretty easy to make too.

If you want to optimize your computer for daily use, may I suggest Linux? Linux allows you to change whatever you want without breaking, and for gamers out there, there is a game mode feature for Linux too!

Thanks for this nicely presented video.

Props for mentioning the enclosure route. SO many issues/stress can be removed via that route alone. I do however disagree on re-installing windows every so often. That makes little sense to me.

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

When you boot a computer it runs through the updates listed. If you have dozens or hundreds of updates it can take a little while for it to go through them and see if you need more updates. There's also the CAB cache (not sure I remembered the name) but it can accumulate and eat a lot of disk space and resulting boot time.

@LeonSteelpaw

Ай бұрын

@@thomasmaughan4798 The OS I have going now started as a 7 install, got updated to 10 and is STILL fast to boot. Maybe its a issue on OEM systems with bloatware?

Being a retired Electronics and Computer Engineer going back before PC's back to old school mainframes, any software solutions to get performance upgrades vs hardware upgrades generally do not work. Some may remember compressing storage drives instead of just upgrading or adding storage. File encryption is a much safer option than drive encryption and for me, never encrypt the OS. Good advice to kill all the bloat and unnecessary operations in the background. This is why I run Linux. That is why the only Windows machine I have is for working on projects and games that just will not run on Linux. I still keep up to date on tech and work a little on the side. Good video.

You should not be messing around in the registry or disabling windows services for optimization.

@appsaucetech

2 ай бұрын

Chris Titus tool does this but only disables services that won't brick your system. That's how I went from 5-10% cpu idle to 0 on my 3600

@lifeindivine

2 ай бұрын

​@@appsaucetechI don't think one should use scripts of C. Titus Tech. Just leave windows as it is. These scripts are not safe. Or use Mac OS, a Console for gaming or Linux for browsing.

@mrtechie6810

Ай бұрын

I do it. But I have multiple backups and always create a restore point (and I have 40 years of computer experience).

1. Don't use Windows 2. Don't use Windows 3. Use anything but Windows.

@magicjinn

Ай бұрын

Don't use Linux. Don't use Mac. Use TetrisOS

@stansova3138

Ай бұрын

You hit Gates and Balmer right on the head with that one. Windows was designed after they saw what the Amiga could do and to me the only good program Microshit ever made was Dos where it made its best with 6.22. I laughed so hard when they sent me a copy of Windows 1.0. and the joke goes on.

@Munenushi

Ай бұрын

*as long as you dont want to play lots of games *as long as you like typing obscure commands in a box manually when things dont work right *as long as you don't mind looking up those obscure commands for days on sites that are antagonistic towards people that don't know things when things dont work right wow i haven't had to change that copypaste linux reply since 2001

@alexanrsousa

Ай бұрын

User's that go around bashing their registry on Windows would be the first ones to go "sudo rm -rf /bin" if a video told them it would make their system faster. There is a reason MS goes above and beyond trying to idiot-proof their OS with scary warnings and hard to find system breaking settings. Linux is for people that either undestand what they are doing or do nothing but start their browser.

@s_ziel

18 күн бұрын

@@Munenushi you can nowadays run the majority of games and other programs with Wine or Proton (Valve's version of Wine) so the 1st point isn't really true anymore

And for this reason you need to obtain Hirens rescue disk, presumably before a problem or using a friends pc after. It is loaded with tools for exactly this reason. You see the computer isn't broken the registry just has an invalid entry in it that is stopping it from booting correctly. Hirens boot CD PE version will let you access your hard drives by booting it from a USB drive and then you can copy files to an external drive. In this case it has registry repair tools where you could load the bad registry and remove the entry you made and then try and boot the machine normally. You might want to do a video on this.

2:55 I hope they not forgetting "restore point"

While I've never tried to optimize my old computer as it was 10yrs old. It finally went out last week. (I was in the process of building a new one anyway.) There are a few things that I'd like to get from my old hard drive, and I was wondering how I should go about getting that stuff off of it. The hard drive part you brought up will be useful.

I watch youtube vids on an old laptop in my kitchen running windows 10 that started getting too unacceptably slow. My tweek to getting a little more life... was to install Ubuntu. That has worked for the last two years but now I think its time is done.

@Cavi587

Ай бұрын

You not only made you laptop live for longer, you actually upgraded to a much better system! If you still want to get more life out of that laptop, you might want to replace your desktop enviroment with something lighter. Lubuntu is a lightweight spin of Ubuntu on the LXQt dekstop enviroment, it's super easy on your resources.

@user-od4gs3iu4t

Ай бұрын

if you have already installed linux, it's easier to modify it instead of fresh install. No need to install lubuntu. Just find out what you don't like (which might be let's say snap), and get rid of them, or stop services

8:06 Windows 10 also has a feature that allows you to reset your system to factory without deleting your personal files. I think it's called Refresh. Be aware it will get rid of any extra programs you installed and get rid of some files like game saves.

Ive actually learned how to fix that problem as a pc repair technician, you can pull the files you need from any working windows system to repair the broken one, of course this is a stop gap solution, and id only do that if you've done a windows memory diagnostic with a backup

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

It works if you have the same version of Windows including same *build* number. DLL's will likely have to be re-registered.

Don't install anything unless you know what it is, don't change settings unless you know what the changes do, don't run commands unless you know what they do. That's the best advice. There is a LOT of bad computer advice out there.

How do you manage having your install keys for the machines that you do a reinstall on? I find that Windows constantly tells me I've installed it on new hardware when I do a reinstall even on the same CPU

I noticed that windows lists the last time you used a particular program. What would happen if you delete programs, such as freebies/demo, that you have NEVER used?

with the hardware upgrade paths on current setups, a virtual machine setup is more viable and opens the door to all os's, plus... snapshot backups of running systems allows for this to be rolled back to just before (if u backup those snapshots to the cloud/usb, somewhere off the originating hardware)

I'm glad Linux is just hard enough to gatekeep people dumb enough to do this stuff.

It boggles my mind that Microsoft still insists on putting the profiles and OS on the same partition. It's not hard to fix throu audit mode, but the fact that even that is buried is dumb. People really need to move to Linux, it's easier to use and better all around.

the only true hack to make any computer "boot fast". never turn it off, so you don't need to wait for it to boot

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

Memory leaks gradually accumulate until you must reboot.

@foxskyful

Ай бұрын

yea if you still use hdd

Thank you for helping me get 1 frame rate more. 👍

The easiest way to protect your personal files is to STOP putting them on the C drive! Use a small SSD for your C drive and use another drive for your documents, downloads etc. My home system has a 240GB SSD for my OS, two 2TB hard drives that are mirrored for my important stuff, another 1TB SSD drive for semi important stuff and a 4TB USB3 external that backs up what I choose. AND a server running TrueNAS Scale with a raid26x4tb for archives that's like the safety net under the belts and suspenders...

what about Pegasun System Utilities ? Have you ever tried it? Your recommendations plz.

For performance one of the tricks I used to do on Windows 10 was actually just Alt+Ctrl+Delete and straight up close Explorer. It sounds kinda stupid but closing your desktop does make it faster, after I'm done gaming I simply run Explorer again and it's like nothings changed, you can just go back to what you were doing. Not sure if it worked on Windows 11 cause I use Fedora now, but I don't think there's any harm in trying it out, unless it affect Anti-Cheat or something?

Its not a broken PC its a broken "Company".

It has been just couple of months since last reinstall and im already noticing performance issues. I guess im gonna have to do proper clean up tomorrow. Im definetly gonna check that other video for free performance to see if its gonna be helpful. This one was.

Four minutes into a 9 1/2 minute video and this guy tells me that he destroyed his PC, yet he can’t even describe what he did. Sounds like his methodology is the problem. Are you trying to avoid upgrading your CPU, your RAM, your storage solution, or GPU. If you write down all the steps involved, and what end result you’re expecting to get without having a rollback plan, then no one can help you unless you’re willing to pay tech-support a lot of money. Better to not start messing with things until you’ve played in a virtual machine and understand how system components affect each other.

Recently upgraded my cooling set up from a strong air cooler to a 360 water block. Don’t know much about ocing so I looked for a few vids. Skipped all the 30 min plus ones. Found a few 8 min ones that gave a rundown of what to do without details . Later I regret not wasting an hour

To access the data on your drive, just run a disc boot able version of xp and access the drive and transfer all of your data onto an external.

The one thing that can be done is regular backups and one should be done before any change that may break the system, I do at least one of the OS partition every 2 weeks, but unfortunately for most people because the way the system is by default these days it takes up lots of space unless you use the old school method of 'separation of data' where the OS partition contains just the OS, I always keep my OS partition to a minimum and keeps Apps and data on other devices for that reason, it also means backups are quicker and in the event of the OS not booting its restored in about 5 minutes, even after a drive failure, with tools like CloneZilla that have been around for years and how cheap removable media is there is no excuse really... I use 2 devices dedicated for backup and alternate the backups between them removing the oldest backups as the drives fill up that way even if one of the backup devices also fails I still have one on the other device thats no more than 2 weeks older.

With SSDs being so cheap, I dual boot 2 Windows installs now. One is stock install with privacy tweaks for work and general use. And the other is a heavily modified version of Windows, I personally use XOS, for gaming. The FPS gain is there, but the input latency improvement is tremendous.

Hi, each time i do major material upgrade or make new install of windows , after all programs are installed and updates done , i duplicate it with magician on a second ssd with one exclusive partition for that and only that (~100GB for the partition, if need more make it more bigger). So if i do bad things or mistake on the main ssd i can fast recover the computer and i got a full access to all the data, that's easy. That's minimal effort, of time and money. You can just use a 250GB ssd only for that if you want, i personally use a more bigger ssd so i make others partitions for others things, like gaming, backup, .... if you are anxious, you can do it with an external backup (i do it too , i hate the loss of precious data when i switch to a complete new build)

I have a set of tweaks that I use on all my systems and none of my PCs BSODed ever, so it mostly depends on if the user is knowledgeable enough on this topic. Just to mention it is a Google doc that has around 40-50 pages, custom made.

Also, ssd that is wrote once & read often, like OS, starts degrading in perform. I think full OS reinstall best & that 1 way to also address ssd issue, but would cover many others

I really recommend taking a look at atlas os, it's a configuration pack that goes on top of windows 10 and 11, and it makes a restore file before changes are made in case something goes wrong

The most important thing you must do before you do any of this is to make a backup of your computer and make a media installation of Windows on a USB stick. If your performance changes cause the OS to go blue screen, you have all your data and a bootable Windows installer to fix it with a simple reset.

In old days of interned there was hi change to get wrong answers/tips from IRC. Basically they had knowledge but sometimes they give someone bad answers just for fun. So internet hasn't changed.

I usually end up reinstalling windows a couple times a year, it surprises me every single time (despite being my go to solution) the improvement in response time.

@jmorgan87

2 ай бұрын

So does "reset this PC" and "fresh install" have the same effect? I don't have any major issues just want more stability and efficiency.

@festro1000

2 ай бұрын

​@@jmorgan87 As far as the user end goes , yes, not sure how it handles under the hood however as to reset this PC something needs to stay behind to facilitate the installation of the OS usually in the form of a partition, so unless the reason to reinstall the OS is virus related it should be fine to just "Reset this PC".

@jmorgan87

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. I went ahead and did it already. No viruses, fixed corruption, but still wanted a fresh install.

@festro1000

2 ай бұрын

@@jmorgan87Fresh install is usually a good choice, better safe than sorry as viruses have been becoming more stealthy and some even attack the recovery partition.

@jmorgan87

2 ай бұрын

I built my pc in 2020 and had some funky windows corruption in 2022. No viruses but windows was beyond repair. I was a benchmark enthusiast. I learned my lesson and have navigated very minor issues since then. I use chrome heavily for catching up on KZread and once or twice a week I was getting nasty system hangs. Audio would play on but disk would shut off and everything clickable would be unresponsive. It may be my gpu, a vram issue but we'll see. @@festro1000

I edited the windows registry just to disable turboboost and display the power options that were hidden. Yes, I lost a little performance but I have more time to play, before that my notebook was getting very hot. Furthermore, I don't recommend messing around with the registry editor, be careful.

Hey @TechLens Correct me if i'm wrong; per windows reinstall Max Performance: 6-12 months Tech Savy and Conscious; 9-16 months Casual maintenance; 14-24 mo Not tech savvy/not a daily driver system; trained prof. every 24 or 36 mo depending on amount of use

Great video!!:))

Your best improvement is to get rid of things you don't need and get system idle down (my game rig is 1%): If you don't need it, uninstall it\ set to 'manual' start ('manual' start in services is safer than 'disable', if something tries to start a 'disabled' service, it will most likely BSOD). Not every suggestion is going to work for you, so revert any "none improvement". Q1 Ask yourself the question "can I restore if it all goes wrong?". Q2 The other question to ask is "am I GPU bound or CPU bound?" and if you don't know the difference, don't even start tinkering because you may be wasting your time.

@korosoid

2 ай бұрын

0% here 😏

@Lurch-Bot

2 ай бұрын

Windows Update recently disabled some things which led to boot loops and BSODs. Most PC users would not have been able to recover from this.

@user-od4gs3iu4t

2 ай бұрын

haha many ppl don't even know what is bios/uefi cause unlike in older times many manufacturers don't even show any menu/boot options ) so they may start to learn something only upon seeing this BSOD. poor they are

@korosoid

2 ай бұрын

​@@Lurch-BotThat's a Windows 11 issue. But hey, it was always making trouble. Smart people have already switched to In Real Life or Mac, Linux, or Android.

@user-od4gs3iu4t

2 ай бұрын

I would say that using Macs can bring potentially more troubles than a normy pc/laptop. I recently installed ubuntu on some old macbook, it took a lot of efforts and time to find a working loader (refind) and a proper linux distro that would work right from installation without need to search some proprietary soft for wifi some ppl complain about ubuntu, but this laptop is now flying with it, compared how it was with its MacOS v.10.10 this migration to linux might be even more tricky for modern mac computers, who knows

Um, so, the number of utilities and custom settings I need for my current workflow, it would take me weeks to get back if I can even remember them or find them again online. Reinstalling windows may be an option for some people but I guarantee you it would break things I use daily in ways I don't remember how I fixed 2 years ago.

I haven't reinstalled windows 10 since ive built it in late 2017. It has always been snappy and never had issues. Always update too.

@throwaway6478

Ай бұрын

Technically, every "upgrade" since Vista is a reinstall. Up until then, a reinstall just burped the new version's files on top of the old ones (hence why you would end up with old Windows utilities like Cardfile and Object Packager floating around your Windows directory). Now your old version gets moved to Windows.old, an entirely new OS is installed, and settings are copied over through a utility called User State Migration Tool.

Protip: Have a dedicated OS drive and keep all your important files and install files on a different physical drive. This way, when you have problems, or simply want to reinstall a clean OS, you can do so without loosing any important files. Once reinstalled, you fire up all your install files of the applications/games you use from your other drive.

We have a Broken System. How did we get here⁉️ First, we installed Mickey$0ft Windoze...

jesus at this point just switch to linux

Great vid! You warn against change in settings peeps don't understand. Great! Bloatware removal is always a thing you need to do. Also updating drivers. Disable spying tools, yes, PLEASE! . But then again what does that performance gain actual mean in your example, going from about 210 fps to say 225 fps in a specific game ? Why should the performance gain be even bigger in lesser system as you say? That part evades me as a non gamer. To my humble non player 'logic' 210 fps or 225 fps doesn't do anything, or am I totally wrong ? If I'm right, why bother to get those 10 fps is its already > 200 ? Or is this just about getting (close) to 100% performance instead of 80% -90% .

didn't expect chamber to have such good tech advice

in Windows 11 you can't turn off the spyware as the tile buttons are just visual only. if you try to disable any telemetry gathering apps and programs using a script, it will disable it for 30 seconds and then restart the process. any attempt to delete these apps or programs will result in a corrupted windows as these apps and programs are classified as WSE aka Windows Security Essentials. i have tryed everything i could think of to get reed of the spyware but no matter what you do even try patch up holes and protocols that request for the spyware apps and programs still result in a non bootable windows. this so far only applies to Windows 11. if your on windows 10 still then you can shutdown and remove all apps and programs involed with windows spyware but will require some patching.

@dragontechgaming6677

2 ай бұрын

@@stenspeed1i'm guessing you didn't bother reading what i posted. changing the service active time will do nothing as it WSE's will still run regardless witch WSE's are the spyware. not even having a master account in win11 will still not allow you to disable the spyware.

@johnmeneses7039

2 ай бұрын

Have you tried Windows 11 Tiny? Seems to be rid of most of the bloatware, but you still have to turn a few things off.

@dragontechgaming6677

2 ай бұрын

@@johnmeneses7039Windows 11 Tiny is not a offical windows build so you are risking getting spyed on by someone else or keyloggers that will steal your info. Windows 11 is considered as a Black Windows shell so there are risk involved. most likely it is fine but i rather not take the chance of giving my PC tech aids lol and i'm a bit to lazy right now to fire up a VM to check it out.

this also happens on linux where noob users just run terminal commands under sudo / gksudo with no understanding of what they are running. as a general rule if you need to "optimize" a computer for more speed you might as well "download more ram", instead get a better system and figure out how to build the computer correctly.

Which setting did you change that caused the issue? or Which video did you follow that caused the issue? I'd like to know what you changed that caused this.

I would not really know how but try to look and make sure no drive encryption is enabled. Then when you run into these problems the data on the drive is not essentially lost. If it is you will most likely not get it back.

@throwaway6478

Ай бұрын

This is why Bitlocker screams at you to back up your recovery key. If you ignore that warning, that's entirely on you.

@thomasmaughan4798

Ай бұрын

@@throwaway6478 Or disable/remove Bitlocker completely in the case that nothing embarrassing is on your computer. If you don't have a bitlocker recovery key, that's pretty much the end of that.

Great video!

Is this why windows 10 programs lost file access to my other hard drives in my computer unless i run them as admin. and windows 10 bricked its self and wouldn't boot at other times?

2:53 TaskbarSi is meant to change the size of the taskbar in specifically Windows 11, I don't know how this "improves performance"

my advice 1) make 2 partitions on your boot device 1 for windows and the other for personal data. you can move "my documents" "downloads" etc to the other partition after install under right click and properties. if the system gets bricked you can reinstall windows on the windows partition and all your data is still there untouched 2) make a usb stick with a linux boot system that can read/write ntfs, if the computer gets bricked you can boot from the stick and just copy any data you need from the disk to an external drive for example. the advantage is you don't need to concern yourself with the permission system bc the windows permission system is not recognized in linux. (the linux stick will also help if you have an issue and want to know if it's windows or hardware. boot from the linux stick and if the issue is persistent it's likely the hardware, if there is no issue in linux it's a windows problem) and 3) use a Virtual Machine to test any risky shit first, if your vm bricks your system itself is still safe

When you get a “blue screen of death” with unknown phrases (like “I don’t know what the f*ck went on”) or QR codes, phone numbers, etc. - don’t panic straightforward. First try pressing and holding down the Escape key to exit from webpage full screen mode or Ctrl+w to close browser tab. Yeah, many of us have already encountered web scams like “Your Windows computer is blocked, call Microsoft support at +1800…. “ So think one step ahead about variations of the same scam. The next time it can pretend to be a “blue screen of death”. What about real PC problems? Make sure you keep backups of the most important files on external devices such as USB keys, SD cards, cloud storage.

#1 speedup.... Turn off the damn search indexer service!

Will reinstalling windows keep all my files intact? Even the installed software? Sorry for the noob question.

in the recover ,If you know the correct commands you can open the registry and undo the problem you have done.

@throwaway6478

Ай бұрын

Yeah: type "regedit". 🤣 It blows me away how many people don't know this.

i run all of my games in Linux, with very few problems, i don't understand why people continue to use windows

Thank god for external hard drives, it's saved me years of work, also several usb backups just encase.