Feedback will be sent to Microsoft: By pressing the submit button, your feedback will be used to improve Microsoft products and services. Privacy policy. No matter how good you are about keeping your computer clean and up-to-date, they tend to slow down after time. If you are an advanced user, you can download a free tool from the Microsoft website that shows you all of the programs and processes that run when you start Windows, including the ones that Windows requires to operate successfully.
Use this tool only if you are comfortable restoring Windows after an error occurs. If you use more than one antivirus or antispyware program at the same time, your device may experience decreased performance, become unstable, or restart unexpectedly.
To remedy the issue, you should select one Internet security program to run on your device. You should then uninstall the other programs. Make sure you have an Internet security program running on your device before you uninstall other security programs. Some Internet security applications do not uninstall completely. You may need to download and run a cleanup utility for your previous security application to completely remove it. If you use another antispyware program together with Microsoft Security Essentials, we recommend that you turn off real-time scanning in the other program.
For more information, see the documentation supplied by that antispyware program. If your device takes a long time to start up, one of the causes could be having a large number of startup apps or a few apps that have a high impact on startup time. Some of these programs add an icon to the notification area on the taskbar to show that they are running with startup.
To stop a program that has one of these icons from automatically running on startup, follow these instructions:. However, the average ad break is around three minutes long, so you can create some very basic ad-skipping technology by changing the Quick Skip interval to three minutes.
To do this you need to edit the Registry. Before you do this, make sure you take suitable back-up precautions. Enter regedit into the Search box on the Start menu and press [Enter].
Browse to the following key:. Find the dword value ' SkipAheadInterval ', right-click it and choose 'Modify'. Change the base to decimal and then enter the required interval in thousandths of a second — so for three minutes, change it to As well as skipping ahead in a recording with one click, Media Center also enables you to skip back a few seconds at a single touch, giving it an instant replay function. I have no idea what the problem was. Again today this happened I restarted my machine and they're playing at normal speed again This thread is locked.
You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Jay, Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows Please follow the below steps to change the playback speed settings: You can change the speed at which files play in the Player.
Play a file, and then switch to Now Playing mode. Right-click an open space in the Player such as to the left of the Stop button , point to Enhancements , and then click Play speed settings. Move the Play Speed slider to the speed at which you want to play the file, or click the Slow , Normal , or Fast links. How satisfied are you with this reply?
Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to A. User's post on September 9, On the Protection updates screen, select Check for updates to make sure you have the most recent updates. Wait for Windows Security to finish scanning for viruses and malware.
Run the recommended advanced scan. This scan takes longer but searches more extensively for threats on your PC. If no viruses are found, restart your PC and try to reproduce the performance problem you were having with your PC. To scan for malware and viruses with Microsoft Defender Offline. The scan might take 15 minutes or so, and your PC will restart again after that. Restoring your PC undoes recent changes that might be causing problems. If you think a recently installed app, driver, or update for Windows could be causing problems, you might get things running normally again by restoring your PC to an earlier point, called a restore point.
Select Search on the taskbar, type advanced system , then select View advanced system settings from the list of results. On the System Protection tab, select System Restore. Select Recommended restore to go with the most recent restore point Windows has made automatically, or Choose a different restore point to select one yourself, then select Next.
If you chose to select a different restore point, select one, then select Next. Either way, select Finish to begin restoring. In the search box on the taskbar, type create a restore point , then select Create a restore point from the list of results. On the System Protection tab, select Configure. One of the best ways to get the most out of your PC is to make sure you have the latest version of Windows 10 installed.
Sometimes apps that were made for an earlier version of Windows will still run on Windows 10, but they might slow down your PC.
In the search box on the taskbar, type troubleshoot , then select Troubleshoot settings , which has System settings listed underneath it.
Select File Explorer from the taskbar. In the search box on the taskbar, type advanced system , and then select View advanced system settings , which has Control panel listed underneath it.
In the Temporary Files area, select Delete temporary files that my apps aren't using. Select which files you want Storage Sense to delete your choices are files in your Recycle Bin and in your Downloads folder , then select the corresponding time intervals.
Windows will take a few moment to clean up your files, and then you'll see a message indicating how much disk space has been freed up. In the search box on the taskbar, type disk cleanup , then select Disk Cleanup from the list of results.
When you find an app to remove, choose it from the list and select Uninstall. Get more info about freeing drive space in Windows Windows 10 includes many visual effects, such as animations and shadow effects. In the search box on the taskbar, type performance , then select Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows in the list of results. This can help improve PC performance if you reduce the number of files that are synced to your PC.
Open About settings. Notification area with mouse pointing to show hidden icons. If you turn off a program and it continues to start automatically when Windows starts, you should scan for viruses and malware. To use the procedure above to stop a program from starting automatically, you need to have Windows 10 Version or higher installed. For more info, see How to protect your Windows 10 PC. To scan for viruses using Windows Security Windows 10 Version or later. Wait for Windows Defender Security Center to finish scanning for viruses and malware.
In the search box on the taskbar, type restore point , then select Create a restore point from the list of results. Select Next , then choose the restore point related to the app, driver, or update that might be causing the problem. Windows 11 Windows 10 More Make sure you have the latest updates for Windows and device drivers. Check for Windows updates Do one of the following: If the status says "You're up to date," continue and check for optional updates.
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