Every Windows user experiences some slowdown over time. As cruft builds up, Windows tends to get slower and run into more errors. At times you need to reinstall Windows, but there are other quick fixes that can help if it's not awful yet.

One of them is managing your system's virtual memory. We've discussed the topic before, but for those on lower-end machines, a quick tweak to memory management in Windows has been reported to help performance. Here's what you should try.

First, search for System on the Start Menu and click its entry. Click Advanced System Settings on the left sidebar, then switch to the the Advanced tab. Find the Performance header and click the Settings button. One more time, click the Advanced tab and you'll see the virtual memory settings. Choose Change.

You want to override Windows' default settings, so uncheck the Automatically manage paging file size for all drivers box. Then select the hard drive to edit settings for (probably C:, your internal drive).

Look at the bottom of the window for the Recommended size and enter that number for the Initial and Maximum Size boxes. Click Set, then OK. Restart your computer to apply the changes, and you should see a performance increase!

For computers with lots of RAM, you probably won't see a big difference after this adjustment. But it's worth a try for weaker or older systems that are stuttering. For more performance boosting, check out how to make Windows 10 faster from boot to shutdown.

Do you let Windows handle virtual memory, or have you changed the value with this method? Let us know if this helped you down in the comments!

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