How to Optimize your Laptop for MAXIMIUM Performance

[@PANDA-fv6bi]

Knew some of these already but still it’s useful to find all these tips in one place. Really helpful for beginners and elders.

[@munnayadav-rm7wz]

Yy

[@sateIIitepilot]

We all knew some of these already, it's the ones we don't know that matter

[@bruhhh69]

​@@sateIIitepilotexactly! And the ones we know don't necessarily mean that other people would also know already.

[@nioxic77]

For anti-virus... the built in windows defender is actually pretty good. just remember to keep it updated. also the task scheduler can run things like the disk cleanup utility on certain intervals, without you having to do anything (and thus you dont have to remember, to do so!) it can be pretty handy, and you can have it do all sorts of things

[@AL3X1KUS]

Windows Defender + F-Secure SAFE is a top tier antivirus combo👍🏻 Top tier Finnish quality antivirus software👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@benox1]

no, its trash. it doesnt detect anything

[@corneliusrosenaa3949]

@@benox1 As a person who develops EXE's which sometimes move files around and such... yes it does, it often detects too much and it has detected every single actually unsafe file I've downloaded

[@SchrodingersLife]

​@@AL3X1KUSKaspersky or Bitdefender without Windows Defender is enough

[@fredstead5652]

Personally, I recommend the free version of Malwarebytes, plus Windows Defender. Unless you're willfully ignorant with what you install, you should be completely fine.

[@craigmellin6217]

Thanks!

[@DequaviusPork123]

You gave him money and he hasn’t even liked your comment 😑

[@alternistronx]

If it includes McAfee, then the Slim X Pro is no where near "clean" of bloatware lol

[@CenturyPHirstCorporationInc]

My laptop have mc afee. should I uninstall it? Is the windows defender alone is safe?

[@teabag9050]

@@CenturyPHirstCorporationIncyep, Windows Defender pretty much takes care of everything McAfee does and much more. Also it’s an inbuilt software, pretty light on system resources, so doesn’t affect your performance at all.

[@sopanroy1506]

Just hold shift before pressing right click... Boom you have classic context menu. I use it all the time and never felt any complaint.

[@deedouz]

🙏👍🙏

[@ObjectiveAnalysis]

It’s not the classic menu but the “show more options” alternate/secondary menu

[@AJD...]

People don't seem to understand just how powerful power plans are when it comes to battery life. I'm getting 30-40% more battery time after I created my own plan with some really aggressive battery saving options, but will give me the best performance when I'm plugged in. It really goes a long way. EDIT: Make sure you know what you're doing. Do some research before you dive into this. Most options there have no explanation given by windows.

[@na0li_]

could u make a google docs file just for us to copy that?

[@HarveyLagura]

How did u do it?

[@chrisclark9116]

Man this was incredibly helpful even for cleaning up my desktop, thanks man

[@danielC783]

Thanks for Classic Context Menu !

[@anderslarsson75]

Awesome! Thanks Eber & Hardware Canucks :)

[@nateo200]

+9000 for Windirstat! Honestly I am horrible with organization in general so it is definitely a huge help.

[@pedrobravo322]

WizTree is much faster, and has a better UI

[@DrLogic_]

@@pedrobravo322 +1 for wiztree, I used Windirstat without knowing about wiztree for a year… I want my year worth of sluggishness back

[@billyjoe3002]

Windows Powertoys for me is the biggest upgrade to the windows experience. Things like fancy zones and always on top is a great feature for productivity work

[@watynecc3309]

I prefer my KDE Neon desktop

[@mariosk.5173]

the search tool is also awesome

[@knack6157]

@@watynecc3309 lol, loved that.

[@watynecc3309]

@@knack6157 6.0 is gonna be great I just love how nice the Linux community is improving

[@darfarooqfarooq5832]

@@mariosk.5173 Klmknkk

[@carter9530]

Definitely should do these annually they're super helpful

[@thirtyeighteen]

Awesome! Even if I prefer a clean install myself and always have a usb-stick with w10pro, these tips are always welcome. Every bit of performance gain is good.

[@lynxstormcat]

What i do when setting up a new laptop is to see if there is an available ICC profile for the built in LCD. This helps in color accuracy and making sure it looks really nice. I use this on old computers and you'd be suprised once the lcd is calibrated its a joy to use and easier on the eyes. Also, I make the swap file a fixed size so it doesn't spend cpu time resizing the swap file.

[@aa19nn]

how do i calibrate the LCD?

[@CenturyPHirstCorporationInc]

When I replaced my Dell Inspiron 5559 to a newer HP with ryzen 5 and and redeon the difference in LCD color and contrast is so awful now I'm stuck. And yes mg old Dell has ICC thank you for sharing what it meant. I have no idea that ICC maters in display quality. (saw it setting up and installing printer)

[@CenturyPHirstCorporationInc]

@@aa19nn Lynx Tom Cat solved the riddle of ICC profile in display.

[@ItsSavvo]

I really would not recommend turning windows sounds off entirely. Sometimes critical things that didn't pop up will still play the windows error sound, or if a device suddenly disconnected and you cant figure out why its not present, the sound will play. The windows sounds play a very important role in the system. If the sounds too obnoxious, just open the audio Volume Mixer and turn down System Sounds a little bit.

[@StellarAudyssey]

Turning down system sounds is exactly what I do.

[@dylanbeaumont1]

will do

[@jaysideway]

This kind of content is great. Thanks, a lot of useful tips here. Some of it is stuff I know but would completely forget since they're set and forget. Really appreciate these tips to optimize things.

[@DragoNate]

disable sounds?! wtf also, i thought this was about optimizing for MAXIMUM performance, not personalizing windows to your liking... change taskbar position, disable notifications, use old context menu - none of those are "performance" related, they're just personalization and preference.

[@mvevitsis]

Step 1. Uninstall Windows

[@AyaWetts]

yep, no Windows on my Legion

[@mvevitsis]

@@techster1689 exactly

[@mantav_1]

@@fatlumbehrami230 yo me also dual boot guy 😉 First i tried pop os but it messed up so bad that i couldn't even access bios then after 1 whole day sitting to fix it i finally could access the bios and then i installed windows and Ubuntu and tho i had got my lesson and did it properly this time but one thing that bugs me the most is that Ubuntu is very slow ( snap package manager + the gnome + my old weak i3 didnt go well) . But Ya battery was better for me too

[@jjcoolaus]

@@AyaWetts what did you install instead for gaming? (If you have a legion you are probably a gamer)

[@AyaWetts]

@@jjcoolaus I've run a few different Linux distros on this one... currently have been running Fedora for a long time now, and it runs great.

[@muhammadhateemali1917]

That gaming section was actually good. just bought an Asus Vivobook 15 A1504Z and things like compact view, disabling notification, Disabling memory integrity was really helpful for me

[@danielmasungwa5546]

Disabling the quick access panel is a lifesaver for me. I needed it for the culture.

[@nayeebG]

Always love these type of optimizing videos. 💛

[@varkin794]

I don't use laptops but I watched the video to see what I could optimize on my PC and certainly I like that I can get the previous context menu, thanks a lot.

[@CenturyPHirstCorporationInc]

I tried it on my windows 11 but menu is still the sa,e with (other options) I don't see any advantage with that new menu.

[@riba2233]

A truly awesome video, all of this advices are spot on :) goes straight to my favourites!

[@bogdan.p]

Nice video and really good tips. I'm actually working on an app that will offer you the possibility to do almost all the things you have said in the video and much more from one place so you don't have to remember all the apps where this settings are found. Maybe you'll take a look at it once it's ready. It will have the same look n feel like Windows 11 native apps.

[@evan2447]

Good luck

[@safochristian]

All the best in your endeavor. Reply to this message when you are done so we can also try it

[@soumyadyutichakraborty7921]

Nice

[@rohanbaby3545]

Awesome

[@safochristian]

@@bogdan.p Thanks, I'm downloading it now

[@lixomanx]

Thanks for the tips, used ones and it make a lot of diferrence for me! Thank you!

[@ObjectiveAnalysis]

Bro this is awesome info, I literally just spent the last half an hour watching this video and implementing all of these tips. My laptop is now looking and behaving exactly like I want it to. Thank you! ❤

[@timothystevenhoward]

Thanks Eber. Everything is pretty useful.

[@BSCrystal]

Thank you so much for this! i miss little bit Old School and it is just cool and simply. Love your video i give a Like.

[@Marc.Google]

Such a handy video, for both desktop and laptops!

[@saisibi6708]

I always love these types of videos. They help me eek out more performance from my laptop. I really need this, because my laptop isn't all that powerful. And I still manage to game on it. And this time core isolation was a new thing for me. Thanks Eber. This video helped.

[@incognito6812]

What are ur laptop specs and what games are u able to play on it?

[@oelshami]

I'd recommend WizTree over WinDirStat, much faster since it doesn't have parse the whole drive. My C: Drive was 2 seconds with Wiztree vs WinDirStat that took 2 minutes 45 seconds on the same drive.

[@tamilvilayattarangam]

Eber telling us the real important things in life....good stuff man.

[@vardaankaushal8560]

Yeah man, that was so satisfying to see the right click menu is back

[@mr.manifestor]

7:35 - even better one is Listary. The hotkeys really saves a lot time!

[@GadgetGuy45]

Oh bloody awesome video! Ebor is a legend

[@rafaelazeferino9971]

Thats some good quality video .Great job.

[@lilfredd1393]

Eber you are a Godsend!! I hope you guys were compensated for advertising those software apps

[@VELI-Productions]

Thank you for the classic context menu restore. I love the look of the new context menu but I use 7zip for work multiple times a day and those extra clicks to the more options add up.

[@heavenseas]

The "Windows 11 Setup" part literally is just a preference.

[@maximilianmorse9697]

Having an antivirus is the exact opposite of essential; getting malware on your PC is pretty damn difficult as long as you don't go downloading random crap from sketchy sites, and most AV software is basically a virus itself.

[@davidyang9902]

and windows built-in anti virus already good enough for most users

[@callofdookiemaster87131]

@@davidyang9902 yeah windows defender is actually a very useful and efficient program. does a very good job.

[@darkkforest]

@@davidyang9902 that's why I thought as well, but not so long ago they somehow stole my CC info and used it on sketchy bet website and had to quickly change all my passwords. Now using Bitwarden and installed a Kaspersky anti-virus.

[@arithmetic7105]

Agreed, I haven't used a third party anti virus since 2016

[@Realism91]

@@callofdookiemaster87131 I'd rather use a all in one online scanner like virus total, the only time I need it is if I'm doing things I shouldn't because I'm not rich and don't plan to make money from the things I wanted. I do get the things if it's for work though.

[@jaikrishnan9169]

Great video man , and yes, we want more tips like this

[@LoppanG]

Thank You from Sweden. 🖖

[@mattschillin999]

Probably the best video I’ve watched considering every other one is a copy of the previous ones

[@jjcoolaus]

That laptop costs $3150 in Australia, and while I love Lenovo laptops and recommend them, you can’t customise the storage on Lenovos site to go up to 2TB of storage or increase the RAM (not in my country anyway)

[@shivamrawal4603]

Please make a video on best apps to have on your new laptop.

[@kobbariraja]

really good video mate

[@CryoseGaming]

Lovely advert for Lenovo 🎉

[@metageneration6715]

thanks bro good information well delivered!!!!!!

[@MooseBeCanadian]

You said an antivirus software is essential. I just moved back to windows after 10 years on Mac and in my research everything said windows defender is perfectly fine and not to instal an antivirus software as it’ll mostly just be bloatware and slow your pc down. What are your thoughts?

[@Gaurav-cy5lu]

You are absolutely right. Defender has 4.5/5 stars in malware detection.

[@alouisschafer7212]

Antivirus= Bloat win defender is already sucking up kike 200mb of memory

[@Realism91]

If you only download from official sites and use an ad blocker with fanboy lists you shouldn't need anything, if you're pirating I'd rather something like virus total and use trusted uploaders as much as possible than have antivirus. Windows defender takes the least resources though but if all you care about is getting the most performance and you're cautious you could get away without one.

[@XtianApi]

Windirstat is incredible. So is "everything" super lightweight instant search of EVERY file on your computer. Indexing takes maybe 3 seconds

[@socas_nic]

Dear hardware canucks, I've seen that you can use some samsung tablets as a second screen for your windows pc and laptop. Could you do a video on which devices actually support his feature and what you can do with it?

[@viz.on7]

4:20 Not working for me... Says Operation completed successfully but does not do anything.

[@arjay42]

thanks for showing how to restore the context menu.

[@META313.]

Everything is the most practical tool ive ever used, especially compared to absolutely garbage windows search

[@pishbot]

nice tips bro, thanks!

[@hmmmmm2555]

disabling from startup alone isn't enough anymore. some ahole companies like google like to add task schedulers to start their apps and background processes. disable them in task scheduler too

[@Gustavo1500Soares]

This was very useful!

[@amazingbollweevil]

For the love of god, please tell me how to wrest control of my laptop from Microsoft's OneDrive! I was saving my documents to my Documents folder and tons of pictures to my Pictures folder. Then I started getting messages that my OneDrive is full and I have buy more space! What? Turns out that this computer links Documents to OneDrive/Document and puts stuff on line! It doesn't even show you this in the path at the top of Windows Explorer. Super freaking frustrating!

[@ranahamzasiraj]

Video Quality man 🫶🫶🏻

[@sumeetsharma9481]

found it very useful 👍👍

[@mohgraph254]

Got a new laptop and the video was helpful.

[@djayjp]

You'd think the "Xbox Game Mode" would automatically launch when gaming and disable those security features, then disable/revert upon not playing a game.

[@culturetokids1781]

Thx you this is very usefull 👍👍

[@GuantaiN]

These are very useful, especially for those of us who are just starting the usually costly and involving tech journey. Thanks!

[@selectthedead]

I love the new edges on the lenovo. Can you also make a video for AMD laptops and how to cicumvent thundferbolt 3 / 4 and use of USB 4 Also please include any backup tool / recovery

[@JAFOpty]

In File Explorer I always change the "Type" column for "File Extension" column, makes it easier to sort by extension. i.e.: exe vs "Application"

[@CenturyPHirstCorporationInc]

JAF thank you for sharing. Wow is amazing!

[@boblablaw4857]

Good vid, would have been nice to at least mention afterburner, xtu, and amd apu tuning utility

[@vasileiospgr]

Maximium Performacium 🤘

[@mubindidit230]

Last year, I watched the video and it was super helpful. Watching the video and I gotta say, it was super helpful. Especially the "This PC" part is a huge time saver.

[@Shuukashu]

Hi, I've run the command on the 4:20 section but my right click is still showing the default version. Is there any alternative?

[@reldahr01]

I especially liked the "No Sound" option. Forgot to mention ShutUp10++.

[@AL3X1KUS]

Found the Windows hater who uses MacOS.

[@Summer-xu8qu]

I would not recommend turning off sounds and notifications altogether. Just disable individual apps notifications that annoy you. You might miss some critical notifications, like, what's the point for recommending a third-party antivirus but blocking all the notifications, you won't get any warning about potential risky/harmful apps can you?

[@bradhaines3142]

windows power management is your friend. i capped my 8750H at 1ghz in battery, it browses great and saves over an hour of battery life with just that

[@mikhailkirton8072]

Facts love that, but in most cases you could just put the max performance @ 99% plugged in or on battery. It won't go above the base clock speed.

[@bradhaines3142]

@@mikhailkirton8072 plugged in i want it to use all the juice, why care when its straight from the wall, but gaming laptops are legendary for their battery life even with 99.99wh

[@mikhailkirton8072]

@@bradhaines3142 because it creates more heat, you can leave it at 99% which only limits the CPU, you can control the GPU with other software like afterburner. I'm using an MSI laptop, so I use MSI dragon centre and afterburner with an overclock and custom fan curve.

[@mikhailkirton8072]

@@bradhaines3142 Plus the performance didn't drop by a lot, was getting about 124fps in beamng, getting around 98. But the temps dropped by a whole 20°C.

[@bradhaines3142]

@@mikhailkirton8072 i have no interest in gutting 30% of my performance for temps at this point. ive done everything i reasonably can for temps, i didnt buy the performance i did so i can use less of it.

[@ashiqurrahman2575]

thnx man this tips helped

[@aaryansingh8229]

Wow, opening file explorer and seeing this PC is a lifesaver :)

[@shubhamghevade2662]

I applied most of them Thank You

[@carlodimaandal]

How do I ungroup windows in the taskbar for Win11?

[@joelmathew1715]

Should I be lowering resolution through windows or in the game settings? My Lenovo legion 5 pro is 2560x1600 but I'm trying to run it at 1920x1080p

[@AndrewDy]

Is there a way for the taskbar windows to not combine?.. like in windows 10, I have ultra wide screen, I like to see the label names when I click on it...

[@surfacingcom]

What are the performance differences between Nvidia gaming and studio drivers, for those of us who work and play on the same machines?

[@DragonKingGaav]

One of the graphic designers at my work said they were getting error in after effects because I installed the studio drivers. So I replaced the studio drivers wit the gaming drivers and the error went away.

[@Realism91]

I've also heard about gaming drivers being better for studio apps too, errors and glitches with the proper driver, it makes no sense.

[@dgafkucky]

@@Realism91 down load both drivers and swap back and forth no problems

[@aaronnunez3985]

Hi! May I ask why you use Media Player Classic over VLC?

[@AnanthakrishnanThachilath]

Yeah, the website clearly says to use something else since it is not in active development.

[@abrahamolsen5340]

Have you heard about modern standby and how problematic it is with the battery when turning off the computer? like i turned off when its at 100% and the next day its like 90%, i think its the modern stanby, or idk but its my new laptop, its a asus vivobook s14 k3402za, i would appreciate if you reply, Thanks

[@seanedits10]

Does disabling memory integrity improve video editing performance as well?

[@ashish_prajapati_tr]

12:50 using this for a very long time.

[@onigames7309]

I would love to install more apps, but Windows Store won't let me turn off S Mode. Keeps having an error on their end when I try to deactivate or download something from the store.

[@DolphxD]

As a it supporter/technician guy doing this daily, pls just make a clean install...

[@nicholassouvatzis9382]

Hello. Very useful tips and tricks. One question though. I have the lenovo IP5 pro. Every time I open the lid of my laptop, it boots up. Without pressing the power button. How can I disable that? I searched everywhere and I can't find this option. Thank you in advance. Greetings from Athens, Greece. 🙂

[@CenturyPHirstCorporationInc]

Check the power botton setting. Your laptop might just be hibernating when you shut down.

[@93SupaFly]

not sure for normal lenovo, but with legions, i finally ended up use stock windows 11 from microsoft, and for the powerplans i just use the legion toolkit and preload the legion powerplan ( google it ) and wala you don't need lenovo vantage app. for updating the laptop it self, i just went ahead to my legion support page ( by entering your serial number ), bookmark the page, and just click check for any updates or bios. Mainly gaming, i use use the balance legion mode, i dont see the need for high performance mode most of the time, and undervolt the 3070, The only worrying part about my legion is the 11800h is so dang hot :/

[@AyaWetts]

My Legion runs 10X better with Fedora on it... screw MS

[@93SupaFly]

not every "gamer" on the planet gonna need that kind of operating system on their gaming pc though lol.

[@dserky]

​@@93SupaFlyAll this bullshit Operating systems like linux and macos are just Dogshit optimized The first OS was Windows and Windows is the best OS for gaming everyone say Linux is better but Linux is bullshit for gaming

[@g9super]

Superb 😊

[@itsdeonlol]

Thanks, this is helpful!

[@santanuhajra6485]

Excellent content

[@Chaos666Theory]

For a better video player use mpv.

[@alanwu3678]

I don't know how to set the Desktop folder to be a local folder like it was in pre-11 versions of Windows. Is this even possible in Windows 11? Or does Microsoft now just force everyone to have their Desktop folder on OneDrive, with no settings to change this? Please advise. Thank you.

[@vmafarah9473]

Eber can you put "This Pc" to taskbar as in windows 10.

[@tutacat]

You don't need to discharge your battery, just keep it closer to ~55%

[@kehan6252]

I am in Windows 10 but I'm worried about constantly updating Windows since there was that time where Microsoft automatically made devices update to Windows 10 without user's knowing about it. Is it still safe to update Windows? I only update security patches for now

[@raifmohamed8401]

Question. Doesn't regularly cleaning up temp files degrade your SSDs lifespan?. Wouldn't it mean more random reads and writes leading to the SSDs flash to wear out?

[@Realism91]

Yes

[@m-copyright]

Stop worrying about the life of the SSD. It's going to last way longer than you think. Just use it and don't think about it.

[@luismancilla650]

this might be an L take but I actually like the taskbar to be in the middle compared to it being in the left side

[@iloveferrets5859]

very L take

[@chopjohnsu3y274]

🤢

[@user-po8os6lc8q]

Its an L take bc ppl r used to the taskbar being on the right. If the taskbar has been on the middle since like windows 98 ppl would say having the taskbar on the left an L take.

[@EasyMoneySG]

4:19 copy and paste? from the video? lol

[@kiyadawit9931]

Keep it up

[@graog123]

4:22 YOU LEGEND!