Microsoft shares simple yet overlooked tip to help fix your slow Windows 11 PC

Microsoft recently acknowledged that Windows 11 is a rather memory-heavy OS and, as such, it is working to fix problems like excessive resource usage with new performance tools that were also recently announced. It’s hard to ignore, too, at this point, with Apple’s Mac managing to outdo Microsoft in its own software.

While improvements are certainly welcome, it is also true that Windows 11 itself already offers some ways to work around system slowdowns in case you are facing such problems. Recently, in a post on its official Microsoft Support account on X, the company shared the simple yet often overlooked tip of managing startup apps optimally.

We are pretty sure most Neowin readers and other Windows and hardware enthusiasts already take care of these things, but for those who are not tech-savvy enough, they can overlook these fairly easily.

In the post, Microsoft…