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.

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

Surface devices have an adjustable power mode to allow you to balance your preference between best battery life and best performance. Select Start > Settings > System > Power & battery.

Learn how to use a health report in Windows Security to manage your device performance and keep your device secure.

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

Like its predecessor Windows Vista, Windows 7 provides the Windows ReadyBoost function to provide Netbooks or older PC systems with more memory. You can use non-volatile flash memory such as …

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

For example, you could create a rule to move all messages that are older than three months to an archive folder under On My Computer. To learn more about how to create rules, see Create a rule in …

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Performance issues may increase when Outlook is running in Online mode. Such performance issues occur because running Outlook in Online mode increases the load on the Exchange server.