If your laptop is running slow, apps are taking time to open or is lagging while multitasking, then the first thought that comes to your mind is to upgrade RAM. However, due to the rising prices and shortage of supply of DDR5 RAM, this method can be heavy on the pocket. In such a situation, without buying any new hardware and without spending money, we look for ways to make the performance of our laptop fast and smooth again. If you are also looking for a similar method, then this article can be very useful for you. You can increase the speed of your laptop through some easy system settings and proper memory management. These include restarting the laptop, closing unwanted startup apps and using activity monitor etc.
When you do not turn off or restart the laptop for several days, unnecessary garbage and tasks running in the background keep accumulating in it. By restarting the laptop, all that garbage gets cleared and your system becomes completely fresh and starts running faster.
There are many apps and software which automatically start in the background as soon as the laptop is turned on. This increases booting time and consumes RAM. In Windows, go to Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc and from the SmartUp tab, disable those apps that you do not need immediately.
Through Task Manager in Windows and Activity Manage in Mac, you can easily see which app is consuming the most RAM and CPU. Many times, due to problems like memory leak, an app starts using too much RAM unnecessarily, which you can close immediately from there.
Keeping too many browser tabs and heavy apps open simultaneously puts pressure on RAM. Use the memory feature available in Google Chrome or other browsers and completely close the apps on which you are not working.
When your laptop’s RAM is full, the operating system uses the free space in your storage as ‘virtual memory’. Therefore, maintain enough free space in the storage by deleting temporary and junk files from the system so that the laptop can work smoothly.