If your PC is running slowly, the following suggestions might help speed things up. The tips are listed in order, so start with the first one, see if that helps, and then continue to the next one if it doesn’t.

Like its predecessor Windows Vista, Windows 7 provides the Windows ReadyBoost function to provide Netbooks or older PC systems with more memory. You can use non-volatile flash memory such as …

Select Start > Settings > System > Power & battery. Open Power & battery settings For Power mode, select Better performance or Best performance. This setting can be set up differently based on when …

Learn about things you can try to fix things if your Windows 10 PC is plugged in and charging slowly or discharging.

Click on your video on the editing timeline, then click on the speed tab on the property panel. Here, you can adjust the speed of your video from 0.1x to 16x speed using the speed slider.

If it's a hard disk drive, select Analyze if you want Windows to check the drive to see if it needs optimization, or select Optimize to have Windows run optimization on the drive. Note: Hard drives are …

Open OneDrive settings (select the OneDrive cloud icon in your notification area, and then select the OneDrive Help and Settings icon then Settings.) Go to the Sync and back up tab, and expand …

We improved Excel’s memory allocation with Large Address Aware Excel, increased copy/paste speed, undo, conditional formatting, cell editing and selection, scrolling, filtering, file open, and programmability.

For example, you could create a rule to move all messages that are older than three months to an archive folder under On My Computer. To learn more about how to create rules, see Create a rule in …

Here are some ways to free up space so you can keep your PC up to date and running smoothly. These suggestions are listed in order, so start with the first one, see if that helps, and then continue to the …