What are we going to do now is unlock something called Ultimate Performance Mode now, because you're
doing this course?
I take it that you do have Windows 11.
And if you do have Windows 11, that it means your computer is pretty much, well, quite up to date.
So you should have a pretty good processor and maybe even a pretty good graphics processing unit.
But more importantly, your CPU, your central processing unit should be quite up to date, which means
you should have quite a lot of processing power that you can take advantage of by unlocking the Ultimate
Performance mode.
I'll just let you know when you unlock this particular mode and there's another three modes you can
choose from, we will look at those in a second.
But when you use the Ultimate Performance mode, your PC will or your laptop will use more power.
On average, I think it's around an extra two or nine per cent, but in return you do get more processing
power.
So why would you want to use Ultimate Performance mode?
Well, that's totally up to you.
Maybe you're into video editing or photo editing.
Maybe you're into gaming and you need that extra kick just to get that extra performance.
So before this tutorial, there was some text I asked you to copy, and you will need that text now
to unlock the Ultimate Performance mode.
So let's go ahead and get started.
So first and foremost, come to this search magnifying glass.
And what you want to type in is windows.
Power Shell.
And this is what we want here.
So click it.
And then the text they asked you to copy, just paste it in here, so hold down control and press fee.
That will go in and press enter.
OK, so we're all done here.
So now get rid of the power shell.
Now come to the magnifying glass and type in control panel.
Until it shows up and here it is, so like this.
And then in the search type in power.
And click on power options.
OK, so the ultimate performance mode is what's here, and it's here.
Now the thing is, when you put in the code into the power shell on multiple occasions, like, for
instance, I've just put in twice.
You end up with two ultimate performance modes.
Now I do remember in Windows 10, when you duplicated them, you were able to delete them.
But on Windows 11, I can't actually see that option here.
And maybe it's hidden away something or something.
Maybe I just need to find it, but basically you're able to delete them.
But anyway, if you keep putting in that code, you will end up with loads of different ultimate performance
modes.
When I say different, when in reality, they're all the same.
Now, if you did not put in that code that I showed you into the PowerShell, then this would not show
here.
The only options you would have would be power saver, high performance and the balanced option.
And by default, you'll find it will probably be on the balanced option.
So now what we can do is we can just select Ultimate Performance Mode, and all we have to do now is
accept this.
And to be honest, I'm not really sure at this point whether you need to restart your computer.
But you could just for good measure just to make sure that those settings are activated and now you
are in Ultimate Performance mode.
So if you're not happy with Ultimate Performance mode, or maybe you're finished using it, just remember
how to get back to where we were before.
Come back to the magnifying glass.
And why don't need to type in control panel again?
Because it's within my recent area here, so I'll click on control panel.
Typekit power power options than just choose a different plan.
So with regard to performance on your computer, there's one thing that will really slow your system
down, and that is just quite simply having too many things running in the background or too many applications.
So this is a big issue that I think a lot of PC users experience, and it's quite simple to manage these
background applications.
Now, of course, if you have loads of applications open, for instance, you have Photoshop Open video
editing, your browser, your email.
Well, then all I could say is, you know, your computer is limited to how much processing power it
has, and all you have to do is just close down some of these programs.
But what I really want to attack now are background applications, applications that run in the background,
but they're not actually visible.
So these are the types of applications you should know how to manage.
So how do we take a look?
Well, all you have to do is use the shortcut.
Hold down control shift and press escape.
The task manager will open up, and here within the Processes tab, you can see what's actually running
on your computer.
Now you can see I'm using quite a lot of memory here.
And most of it is being dedicated towards my movie video suite, and that is obviously because I am
recording my screen at the moment.
But what you could do is if you don't know what's taking up most of the memory or the CPU or the disk
or even the network, you can click at the top of the column.
And very briefly, you should have all of the programs slash applications that are using the most memory
and the same with the CPU.
Like I said, you can just choose from any of these columns.
So I clicked on CPU there and we have the top figures at the top.
So it just sorts the largest to smallest.
So once you've identified what is taking up the most memory or the most CPU or disk, you can just select
it.
So let's go for movie VIDEO Sweet.
But I'm not actually going to end the task because I'm using the program.
You can select it and then just come to end task.
Now, just be aware that some of these programs need to run in the background.
They are critical components to windows running.
And I suppose if you were to try and end these certain tasks, windows would suddenly stop working.
And who knows, you'd have to reset your computer or something like that.
So just be aware about what you're trying to stop.
Now, if you see something and you don't really like what it looks like.
So for instance.
This one here, anti-malware service executable, you could go to Google and just Google that name.
And then Google will tell you, yep, it's a friendly program, or maybe it's malicious or something
like that.
I do know that this one I've selected is just my Windows 11 antivirus anti-virus software, so I'm quite
happy to have this running.
And basically, this is always running.
And then finally, one tab you definitely want to visit is the start up tab here in the task manager.
So when you start your computer, there are applications that start automatically and basically they're
listed here within the start up tab.
So all you have to do is just go through the list here, find what you do not want to start, select
it.
So for instance, Cortana, which is something I never use, you can select it and then just click on
Disable.
Now, with regard to these different applications, they do have a different start up impacts, so you
can look at the start up impacts.
And if you do come across a program and you're not sure whether you want to stop it or not, just look
at the start up impact and think to yourself, OK, if it's none, then I'm just going to leave it as
it is.
However, if it's something that's quite high like this here, which is my which has something to do
with Adobe Creative Cloud, if it's quite high, then quite possibly you might want to select it and
then just disable that particular program.
And as you can see, I've already disabled this one here because the startup impact is quite high.
So you just go through this list on your own computer and decide what you want to disable and or enable.