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.

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.

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.

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

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 …

If you have many files in your TEMP folder, it can slow PowerPoint (and other programs) down significantly. Periodically check and delete excess files in your TEMP folder.

Learn how to recognize Internet connection problems and help improve your computer's online performance.

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

However, if you are concerned about their performance, you can manually check. To see how, visit Defragment / optimize your data drives in Windows. To help identify specific hardware-related …