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5 simple tricks that made my Windows 11 PC boot faster and perform better

I distinctly remember around 20 years ago pressing the start button on my beige Windows XP desktop and waiting three or four minutes for it to fully boot. I was always so excited to get on my PC and ...
PC World

This hidden Windows 11 trick unlocks SSD speed boost for NVMe drives

Microsoft recently started offering users of modern SSDs an option to significantly increase their drive speeds. Specifically, this involves a performance boost for NVMe drives. NVMe stands for ...
HotHardware

Microsoft Kills NVMe Registry Trick For Faster SSDs In Windows 11, Here's A Workaround

This may come as a shock, but unless you're on the latest builds of Windows Server, your Windows machine doesn't know about your NVMe disk. The standard StorNVMe.sys driver used since Windows 8.1 ...
PC World

Meet Windows 11’s Dev Drive, the gaming speed trick hiding in plain sight

PCWorld explains how Windows 11’s dev drives use ReFS file system to optimize small file access, reducing game loading times and improving performance. This feature works best with fast NVMe SSDs and ...
PC Magazine

6 Simple Tricks I've Learned That Make My Windows PC Boot Faster

1. Enable Windows' Fast Startup Mode Windows has a feature called Fast Startup that does exactly what it sounds like, so this is an obvious first stop in your quest. It's possible the feature is ...