Over the years I’ve built a compact, free toolkit of Windows utilities that quickly expose the usual suspects when a PC slows down: low disk space, runaway background processes, flaky RAM, overheating hardware, or an aging storage drive. The MakeUseOf piece that started this conversation lays...
backup and recovery
chkdsk
crystaldiskinfo
device performance
disk i/o
dism
hwinfo
make use of
memory diagnostic
memory test
pc troubleshooting
resource monitor
sfc
smart-attributes
system performance
thermal throttling
troubleshooting-workflow
windows
windows security
wintoys
