Windows 11 can feel sluggish long before your hardware is truly outdated, especially if its power profile, drivers and graphics settings are working against you. With a handful of targeted tweaks, I ...

PCs, for a long time, had a bloatware problem. The major PC manufacturers—Dell, Asus, Acer, and the like—had a bad habit of including "free trials" of software like Norton AntiVirus on new devices.

Windows is no doubt a powerful operating system, and you can tweak system settings and add power user utilities to speed up work and make it even more efficient.