This article lists several solutions that may help improve your PC’s performance. We recommend trying all the listed solutions as multiple factors can contribute to slow performance.

It helps you proactively monitor performance, security, and reliability by identifying common issues—such as storage, battery, or system problems—and providing actionable recommendations …

Learn how to use Manage and Optimize Drives to keep your disk and data drives defragmented and at top performance in Windows.

Learn about performance features in Microsoft Edge, such as sleeping tabs, efficiency mode, and performance detector.

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Use these tips from the Excel team to improve performance and stability in your workbooks.

The Workbook Performance pane displays the number of cells used in a workbook and how many of them can be optimized. The Optimize all button will clean up all cells in the workbook.

Energy saver automatically manages system processes and power usage for an optimal balance of PC performance and longer battery life. Select Start > Settings > System > Power & battery .

The following guidelines can help improve Access performance, regardless of whether the database with which you are working is stored on your computer or on a network.

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