1 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:07,170 What are we going to do now is unlock something called Ultimate Performance Mode now, because you're 2 00:00:07,170 --> 00:00:08,150 doing this course? 3 00:00:08,250 --> 00:00:10,800 I take it that you do have Windows 11. 4 00:00:11,220 --> 00:00:17,370 And if you do have Windows 11, that it means your computer is pretty much, well, quite up to date. 5 00:00:17,790 --> 00:00:23,430 So you should have a pretty good processor and maybe even a pretty good graphics processing unit. 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:30,870 But more importantly, your CPU, your central processing unit should be quite up to date, which means 7 00:00:30,870 --> 00:00:36,960 you should have quite a lot of processing power that you can take advantage of by unlocking the Ultimate 8 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:37,860 Performance mode. 9 00:00:38,460 --> 00:00:42,480 I'll just let you know when you unlock this particular mode and there's another three modes you can 10 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:44,790 choose from, we will look at those in a second. 11 00:00:45,090 --> 00:00:51,970 But when you use the Ultimate Performance mode, your PC will or your laptop will use more power. 12 00:00:52,020 --> 00:00:58,590 On average, I think it's around an extra two or nine per cent, but in return you do get more processing 13 00:00:58,590 --> 00:00:58,980 power. 14 00:00:59,430 --> 00:01:01,800 So why would you want to use Ultimate Performance mode? 15 00:01:02,310 --> 00:01:03,600 Well, that's totally up to you. 16 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,480 Maybe you're into video editing or photo editing. 17 00:01:06,780 --> 00:01:12,690 Maybe you're into gaming and you need that extra kick just to get that extra performance. 18 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:18,570 So before this tutorial, there was some text I asked you to copy, and you will need that text now 19 00:01:18,690 --> 00:01:20,760 to unlock the Ultimate Performance mode. 20 00:01:21,060 --> 00:01:23,340 So let's go ahead and get started. 21 00:01:23,700 --> 00:01:26,820 So first and foremost, come to this search magnifying glass. 22 00:01:28,250 --> 00:01:30,290 And what you want to type in is windows. 23 00:01:31,330 --> 00:01:32,530 Power Shell. 24 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:36,060 And this is what we want here. 25 00:01:36,180 --> 00:01:37,020 So click it. 26 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:45,050 And then the text they asked you to copy, just paste it in here, so hold down control and press fee. 27 00:01:47,010 --> 00:01:48,630 That will go in and press enter. 28 00:01:49,050 --> 00:01:50,530 OK, so we're all done here. 29 00:01:51,570 --> 00:01:54,240 So now get rid of the power shell. 30 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:59,100 Now come to the magnifying glass and type in control panel. 31 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:05,450 Until it shows up and here it is, so like this. 32 00:02:07,630 --> 00:02:10,480 And then in the search type in power. 33 00:02:11,610 --> 00:02:13,770 And click on power options. 34 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:18,540 OK, so the ultimate performance mode is what's here, and it's here. 35 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:25,800 Now the thing is, when you put in the code into the power shell on multiple occasions, like, for 36 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,420 instance, I've just put in twice. 37 00:02:27,690 --> 00:02:30,240 You end up with two ultimate performance modes. 38 00:02:30,810 --> 00:02:35,850 Now I do remember in Windows 10, when you duplicated them, you were able to delete them. 39 00:02:36,330 --> 00:02:39,300 But on Windows 11, I can't actually see that option here. 40 00:02:39,450 --> 00:02:42,060 And maybe it's hidden away something or something. 41 00:02:42,060 --> 00:02:45,570 Maybe I just need to find it, but basically you're able to delete them. 42 00:02:45,930 --> 00:02:50,130 But anyway, if you keep putting in that code, you will end up with loads of different ultimate performance 43 00:02:50,130 --> 00:02:50,520 modes. 44 00:02:50,730 --> 00:02:54,420 When I say different, when in reality, they're all the same. 45 00:02:55,510 --> 00:03:01,570 Now, if you did not put in that code that I showed you into the PowerShell, then this would not show 46 00:03:01,570 --> 00:03:01,930 here. 47 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:08,200 The only options you would have would be power saver, high performance and the balanced option. 48 00:03:08,950 --> 00:03:11,950 And by default, you'll find it will probably be on the balanced option. 49 00:03:12,820 --> 00:03:18,640 So now what we can do is we can just select Ultimate Performance Mode, and all we have to do now is 50 00:03:18,640 --> 00:03:19,420 accept this. 51 00:03:20,410 --> 00:03:24,310 And to be honest, I'm not really sure at this point whether you need to restart your computer. 52 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:30,070 But you could just for good measure just to make sure that those settings are activated and now you 53 00:03:30,070 --> 00:03:31,960 are in Ultimate Performance mode. 54 00:03:32,050 --> 00:03:36,430 So if you're not happy with Ultimate Performance mode, or maybe you're finished using it, just remember 55 00:03:36,430 --> 00:03:39,130 how to get back to where we were before. 56 00:03:39,490 --> 00:03:40,990 Come back to the magnifying glass. 57 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:43,810 And why don't need to type in control panel again? 58 00:03:43,810 --> 00:03:47,920 Because it's within my recent area here, so I'll click on control panel. 59 00:03:49,730 --> 00:03:54,290 Typekit power power options than just choose a different plan. 60 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:01,060 So with regard to performance on your computer, there's one thing that will really slow your system 61 00:04:01,060 --> 00:04:07,990 down, and that is just quite simply having too many things running in the background or too many applications. 62 00:04:08,470 --> 00:04:16,300 So this is a big issue that I think a lot of PC users experience, and it's quite simple to manage these 63 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:17,860 background applications. 64 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:25,150 Now, of course, if you have loads of applications open, for instance, you have Photoshop Open video 65 00:04:25,150 --> 00:04:27,670 editing, your browser, your email. 66 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,830 Well, then all I could say is, you know, your computer is limited to how much processing power it 67 00:04:32,830 --> 00:04:36,160 has, and all you have to do is just close down some of these programs. 68 00:04:36,430 --> 00:04:42,100 But what I really want to attack now are background applications, applications that run in the background, 69 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:43,690 but they're not actually visible. 70 00:04:44,020 --> 00:04:47,920 So these are the types of applications you should know how to manage. 71 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,600 So how do we take a look? 72 00:04:49,990 --> 00:04:52,090 Well, all you have to do is use the shortcut. 73 00:04:52,420 --> 00:04:54,640 Hold down control shift and press escape. 74 00:04:55,390 --> 00:05:01,510 The task manager will open up, and here within the Processes tab, you can see what's actually running 75 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:02,740 on your computer. 76 00:05:03,310 --> 00:05:05,230 Now you can see I'm using quite a lot of memory here. 77 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:11,350 And most of it is being dedicated towards my movie video suite, and that is obviously because I am 78 00:05:11,350 --> 00:05:12,880 recording my screen at the moment. 79 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:20,860 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 80 00:05:20,980 --> 00:05:24,070 or even the network, you can click at the top of the column. 81 00:05:25,380 --> 00:05:32,220 And very briefly, you should have all of the programs slash applications that are using the most memory 82 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:33,910 and the same with the CPU. 83 00:05:33,930 --> 00:05:36,600 Like I said, you can just choose from any of these columns. 84 00:05:37,170 --> 00:05:41,460 So I clicked on CPU there and we have the top figures at the top. 85 00:05:41,580 --> 00:05:44,190 So it just sorts the largest to smallest. 86 00:05:45,310 --> 00:05:51,940 So once you've identified what is taking up the most memory or the most CPU or disk, you can just select 87 00:05:51,940 --> 00:05:52,250 it. 88 00:05:52,270 --> 00:05:55,210 So let's go for movie VIDEO Sweet. 89 00:05:55,210 --> 00:05:57,790 But I'm not actually going to end the task because I'm using the program. 90 00:05:58,150 --> 00:06:01,180 You can select it and then just come to end task. 91 00:06:01,750 --> 00:06:06,850 Now, just be aware that some of these programs need to run in the background. 92 00:06:07,210 --> 00:06:10,630 They are critical components to windows running. 93 00:06:10,930 --> 00:06:17,920 And I suppose if you were to try and end these certain tasks, windows would suddenly stop working. 94 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,760 And who knows, you'd have to reset your computer or something like that. 95 00:06:22,150 --> 00:06:25,030 So just be aware about what you're trying to stop. 96 00:06:25,540 --> 00:06:27,890 Now, if you see something and you don't really like what it looks like. 97 00:06:27,910 --> 00:06:28,930 So for instance. 98 00:06:29,890 --> 00:06:35,890 This one here, anti-malware service executable, you could go to Google and just Google that name. 99 00:06:36,190 --> 00:06:41,170 And then Google will tell you, yep, it's a friendly program, or maybe it's malicious or something 100 00:06:41,170 --> 00:06:41,710 like that. 101 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:48,760 I do know that this one I've selected is just my Windows 11 antivirus anti-virus software, so I'm quite 102 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:50,080 happy to have this running. 103 00:06:50,170 --> 00:06:51,700 And basically, this is always running. 104 00:06:52,450 --> 00:06:58,450 And then finally, one tab you definitely want to visit is the start up tab here in the task manager. 105 00:06:58,870 --> 00:07:03,640 So when you start your computer, there are applications that start automatically and basically they're 106 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:07,060 listed here within the start up tab. 107 00:07:07,450 --> 00:07:15,000 So all you have to do is just go through the list here, find what you do not want to start, select 108 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:15,300 it. 109 00:07:15,370 --> 00:07:21,370 So for instance, Cortana, which is something I never use, you can select it and then just click on 110 00:07:21,670 --> 00:07:22,330 Disable. 111 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:28,540 Now, with regard to these different applications, they do have a different start up impacts, so you 112 00:07:28,540 --> 00:07:30,070 can look at the start up impacts. 113 00:07:30,070 --> 00:07:37,150 And if you do come across a program and you're not sure whether you want to stop it or not, just look 114 00:07:37,150 --> 00:07:42,970 at the start up impact and think to yourself, OK, if it's none, then I'm just going to leave it as 115 00:07:42,970 --> 00:07:43,420 it is. 116 00:07:43,930 --> 00:07:49,120 However, if it's something that's quite high like this here, which is my which has something to do 117 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:56,290 with Adobe Creative Cloud, if it's quite high, then quite possibly you might want to select it and 118 00:07:56,290 --> 00:07:58,870 then just disable that particular program. 119 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,480 And as you can see, I've already disabled this one here because the startup impact is quite high. 120 00:08:05,110 --> 00:08:12,430 So you just go through this list on your own computer and decide what you want to disable and or enable.