It is quite natural for a computer to perform slowly with increasing age. It doesn’t matter whether it is an Asus computer or an Apple PC. But if you optimize it properly, you will not have to face these problems.
Being a technician, I fix more than 10 computers every day and most of them suffer from slow performance or hanging during the task.
So I thought why not write an article on my blog in which the technique to boost the speed of a laptop is shared.
If your Asus laptop is working slow and it is hanging while opening apps. You can fix it with the help of this guide.
How To Fix an Asus Laptop Running Slow Problem?
- Clear the Temp Files – First of all, you should begin with clearing the temp files. To do that, you need to go to Run >> %temp% . Once you will see temporary folders, you need to select all of them and press the delete button.
- Run Disk cleanup – After cleaning the temp files, it’s time to clean up the C://drive. To do that, you need to run the cleanmgr command. Once the disk cleanup window pops up on your computer screen. You need to select all options and click on the done button.
- Uninstall unwanted apps – Whenever you install an app on your pc. It will accumulate some hardware resources. So if you have too many programs on your pc. Then it’s obvious your pc will start performing slow. In that case, you need to remove all unwanted apps from your windows pc. To remove the files, you can go to settings >> apps >> installed apps . here you need to select apps one by one and click on the uninstall button.
- Free up disk space – if your hard drive or SSD drive is overloaded with the files and data. It will impact the performance of your pc. So you should delete all unnecessary files. If you can’t delete them, at least keep them on a USb hard drive or cloud storage space. So you can keep the internal space free.
- Run Sfc cleaner – Once you clean up the C drive. It’s time to organize & scan your system files. To do that, you need to open the command prompt in the administrator panel and run the Sfc /scannow command. Once your laptop completes the scanning task, you need to restart the laptop.
- Run Virus Removal Program – in most of the cases, Asus laptop starts running slow because of the virus issues. So you need to run a good antivirus or malware program to remove these viruses.
- Upgrade To SSD- If you are using a hard drive on your computer, I will suggest you upgrade it to the SSD. SSD is faster than hard drives. Also, when you install windows 10 or 11 on SSD storage space, you will see a positive difference in the speed.
- Remove Dust- Sometimes the reason for a laptop slowing down can be the dust accumulated inside it. When you do not clean your laptop for a long time, dust gets collected on the motherboard and other parts of the laptop and it jams the processor, fans etc. Therefore, you should open the back panel of your laptop and clean it with the help of a blower.
- Update Windows Regularly– Whenever Windows releases any update, you should always update it. To update the windows, you can go to the settings >> Windows update >> Press check for update window. Once you update the windows.
- Factory Reset your pc – After trying the above steps if you still can’t increase the performance of your Asus laptop. You should reset your pc to the original default. To do that, you need to open settings >> System >> Recovery. Here you need to click on the reset of this pc. Before resetting the pc, you must take the backup of your data, otherwise, you may lose it.
- Upgrade your hardware – last but not least, if you are using the older version of an Asus computer, you should think of upgrading your pc. Because nowadays, apps have a requirement of high specs, and if you run them on a older machine which does not have required specs, you will definitely face the slow performance problem on your pc.