This article lists several solutions that may help improve your PC’s performance. We recommend trying all the listed solutions as multiple factors can contribute to slow performance.

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Use these tips from the Excel team to improve performance and stability in your workbooks.

Performance issues may increase when Outlook is running in Online mode. Such performance issues occur because running Outlook in Online mode increases the load on the Exchange …

Surface devices have an adjustable power mode to allow you to balance your preference between best battery life and best performance. Select Start > Settings > System > Power & battery.

The following guidelines can help improve Access performance, regardless of whether the database with which you are working is stored on your computer or on a network.

For example, you could create a rule to move all messages that are older than three months to an archive folder under On My Computer. To learn more about how to create rules, see Create a …

If you have many files in your TEMP folder, it can slow PowerPoint (and other programs) down significantly. Periodically check and delete excess files in your TEMP folder.

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