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🏎️ Optimize Windows Performance

🎯 Learning Objective​

  • Learn independently
  • Understand the impact of hardware on Windows performance
  • Know how to use Windows tools to optimize performance

📜 Statement​

Part 1: 90 minutes​

As a team, you must create a document explaining how to optimize Windows performance. You must at least cover the following topics:

  • What is the impact of hardware on Windows performance? Specifically, the impact of the processor, RAM, graphics card, and hard drive. Provide examples of scenarios where hardware can be a bottleneck.
  • How to observe Windows performance? What is the Task Manager? What information does it provide? How to use it to identify resource-intensive processes?
  • What is the Resource Monitor (resmon)? How to use it to observe system resource usage? What information does it provide?
  • How to terminate an unresponsive application (process)?
  • If Windows is slow to start, what are the Windows tools to optimize startup? How to know if a program significantly impacts startup? How to disable programs that launch at startup?
  • What is Disk Cleanup? How to use it to free up disk space? What options are available?
  • What is disk defragmentation? Is it still necessary to manually defragment a hard drive, especially SSDs? What is the Windows utility to check the status of drives?
  • What visual effects settings can be changed to improve Windows performance? How to access these settings?
  • What is System Restore? How to use it to restore Windows to a previous state?

Start with individual research on the topic for 45 minutes. Then, pool your knowledge to create an explanatory document.

Resources:

important

Submit the document on Omnivox before the end of the session.

Part 2: 30 minutes​

We will have a class feedback session on the work done by each team. This time, to ensure each team can participate, each team will present only a part of the work.