As I am certain you’ve got skilled, the way in which your laptop is about up could make all of the distinction in productiveness and total consolation when utilizing your PC. After resetting Home windows 11 lately, I instantly turned off a couple of settings to get began on the appropriate foot.

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Enhanced Pointer Precision

I frankly do not perceive why enhanced pointer precision, additionally known as mouse acceleration, is enabled by default on virtually each desktop working system I’ve put in. The function causes your mouse pointer to maneuver at a quicker fee than you are shifting your mouse. It is meant to be extra “intuitive” however there’s nothing intuitive about it to me.

Possibly commonplace mouse speeds are only a desire I’ve developed by means of behavior, however an accelerated mouse annoys me to no finish—to not point out the way in which it harms accuracy in FPS games. I like having exact management of the mouse, and when the pointer is slingshotting itself throughout the display screen, I do not really feel like I am in management.

To show off mouse acceleration, open the Windows Settings app and go to Bluetooth & Gadgets > Mouse > Extra Mouse Settings, and within the Mouse Properties dialog that seems, click on the “Pointer Choices” tab. There you will discover a examine field for “Improve Pointer Precision,” which I uncheck.

Should you’re not used to a decellerated mouse, motion could really feel sluggish and stilted. You’ll be able to attempt shifting the pointer pace as much as make it extra snappy, or simply re-enable enhanced pointer precision in case you discover you favored it higher.

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Animation Results

On different desktop environments, most animations do not hassle me: home windows wobbling, notifications materializing, menus sliding up and down. They’re current on macOS and on my current Garuda Linux Dragonized Edition desktop. Inside motive, these items do not hassle me and might make the computing expertise really feel extra natural.

For no matter motive, although, the sorts of animations you see in Home windows 11 do not sit proper with me. The best way of notifications to slip onto my display screen, for instance, really feel too aggressive. Since I am getting notifications all day for work, it actually begins to irk me.

Animations additionally eat processing energy in your GPU, so there are slight useful resource financial savings available whenever you flip off animation results. It will not be something dramatic, however contemplating how bloated Home windows 11 feels to me, each bit counts.

Toggling animation results is definitely an accessibility function. So to disable animations, you need to go to Accessibility > Visible Results and swap off the “Animation Results” possibility.

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Notification Sounds

I am a giant believer in shutting up computer systems. I am not often trying away from the display screen whereas I work, so a visible notification is often sufficient. Like I mentioned earlier than, I get notifications all day lengthy for work, so with sound they will flip into an actual cacophony.

I deal with my telephone the identical means: it spends greater than 99% of the time on silent or vibrate. I perceive that audible notifications might be useful in some conditions, and for some individuals greater than me. More often than not, although, I simply do not wish to hear something from my gadgets besides the music I am listening to.

To disable notification sounds, open the Settings app and go to System > Notifications. Subsequent to the toggle for “Notifications” click on the down arrow icon to increase its choices. Then uncheck the “Enable Notifications to Play Sounds” field.

Whilst you’re at it, you may wish to disable notifications in your lock display screen, particularly in case you’re utilizing a laptop computer that you simply carry out in public. That means, locking your display screen for safety functions means you additionally preserve anybody taking a look at your lock display screen from figuring out what apps you are utilizing.

Once I search the beginning menu on Home windows, it is as a result of I wish to discover an app or file I do know I’ve on my laptop. The beginning menu, although may even search the net on your question. That to me is a ineffective function whose perform provides unneccesary overhead to my PC as a result of, like I mentioned, I am solely looking for recordsdata native to my laptop.

What’s worse, it is not all the time clear whether or not a outcome hyperlinks to one thing in your laptop or one thing on the internet. For instance, if I seek for Discord, whether or not or not I’ve put in it already, Home windows will present me a outcome for the Discord app as a “finest outcome.”

It is separate from the net outcomes, implying this result’s native to my laptop. So if I am undecided I’ve put in Discord already, I am undecided what’s going to occur once I click on it. If Discord is not put in, Edge opens and I am dropped at a Bing search outcomes web page. It annoyingly would not even take me on to Discord’s web site.

Talking of Edge, that is one other drawback for me: I do not use Edge, and each internet outcome within the begin menu opens in Edge. It would not change once I make Firefox my default browser.

That implies that even when I made a decision to alter my workflow to do my internet searches within the begin menu, I would nonetheless be pressured to make Edge my major browser and Bing my search engine. Switching browsers and serps is a big ask only for a minor perk to the beginning menu.

Altering this setting entails a registry edit, so I will not go into it right here. It is all laid out for you in our information to disabling Bing in the Windows 11 start menu.

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Automated DNS

By default, your laptop robotically resolves web shopping requests utilizing a DNS service usually operated by your web service supplier (ISP). Which means your ISP has a document of your shopping requests, which brings privateness and safety implications. Not solely that, however your ISP is probably not the quickest at resolving requests, so you possibly can get your self just a little pace increase by choosing one other DNS supplier.

In my case, my ISP is among the quickest round, which I came upon by clocking DNS providers near me. I nonetheless wish to reduce my assault floor, although, so I desire to show off automated DNS and choose my very own supplier as a substitute.

To do that, you will have to go to Community & Web within the settings app, choose Wi-Fi (or Ethernet, if that is what you are utilizing), adopted by “[Your SSID] Properties.” Scroll till you see the the “DNS Server Task” possibility and click on its “Edit” button.

There you will have to enter your most well-liked DNS addresses. Should you’re undecided what to enter, see our checklist of secure DNS providers we suggest.

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If you need extra methods to optimize your PC, you could wish to look into disabling Windows 11 tips and suggestions. We have additionally put collectively a listing of privacy-specific Windows 11 settings to change.