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8 steps to speed up slow Windows

Your system worked well. Then, one day, the startup after login is very slow and you cannot figure out why. There are 4 diagnosis steps and 8 steps to follow to make your PC faster in these cases.

Diagnosis

Windows orb \> Search for “event” Click on “Event viewer” Take a look to critical and errors Go to Administrative events and explore errors to look for malfunctioning drivers or applications

How to fix

Download Autoruns for Windows by Microsoft Extract Autoruns and enter the directory Right click on Autorunsexe (Autoruns.exe on 32 bit systems) Run as administrator Click on the Logon tab Remove check from all entries you think are slowing down the system Click on Services tab Remove check from all services you think are slowing down the system: be aware that some services are essential to some applications so if you don’t need them you have to unistall the application to avoid malfunctions Do not touch the driver tabs! Disabling the wrong driver you can compromise your system If you have more than one antivirus software, e.g Avira and Microsoft Security Essential update the one you want to keep and uninstall the other in order to avoid conflicts

Autoruns for Windows by Microsoft

Disable any application or services you don’t need, uninstall unwanted or malfunctioning applications, restart the system and check the time elapsed after login and the Event viewer.

If you think a USB device is the culprit you can try USB Oblivion to remove unused USB drivers.

USB Oblivion

Usually you can solve many issues this way but if you haven’t you can try a strongest method using an utility disk.

a strongest method

Tested on:

https://web.archive.org/web/20161226000000*/https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

https://web.archive.org/web/20161226000000*/http://www.cherubicsoft.com/en/projects/usboblivion

https://web.archive.org/web/20161226000000*/https://chirale.org/2016/12/26/how-to-fix-freezed-windows-7/