How to Optimize Windows 10 For GAMING and STREAMING. (2023 ULTIMATE Guide)

Want to optimize Windows 10 for Gaming, Streaming and Power usage? Well then let's take you step by step to take out all the bloat and make it really quick!

Chapters
00:00 Important things to know before we start optimizing
02:35 Changing settings in windows explorer (file viewer).
03:53 Display settings
05:27 Sound Settings for Gaming and power settings.
08:20 Optimizing drives.
09:35 Multitasking, shared experiences.
10:24 Windows services to disable.
11:41 Advanced system settings, windows protection settings.
13:40 Personalization, Optional Features, Windows Apps, Cortana.
18:38 Microsoft Windows Xbox Service, Startup Apps.
20:37 Xbox Gamebar.
23:57 Extremely handy optimizations and shortcuts.
25:01 Narrator, keyboard and mouse settings. Turn off this annoying setting if you are a gamer!
25:48 Optimal Privacy settings.
26:54 Camera and Microphone access settings.
28:26 Background apps.
29:21 Windows updates settings.
30:38 Optimal Windows defender settings for power users.
31:34 Nvidia and AMD driver settings.
31:59 Final recommendation when first setting up a PC.

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[vexelghost]

I just went back to Windows 10 last month and used your previous optimization guide. Thanks for updating this.

[kiker]

I don't miss doing this every fresh install.

[RafsA]

I can't thank you enough for this. I have a very high end system and was experiencing bad stuttering/hitching and what not on Valorant and after many attempts and other solutions by the end of your video, you not only improved my performance but fixed my issues. You're the man <3

[JakeSulinjr]

Haha, Dude, I literally just did your Windows 11 MEGA tutorial this morning. It took an hour, but my gaming laptop is running fantastic now!

I could actually use this new video as well for my father-in-laws PC. He's got an office PC with an AMD Phenom that could use a little booster to give it back some pep in that Phenom step!

Thanks again, Brian!

[MrSCOTTtheSCOT]

How to Optimize Windows 10 For GAMING & Power Users ----> 7 years ago, , I have this book marked for constant reference i can't believe you just updated, now this joins it in your folder, excellent work Fella !!!

[AmadeusDoesStuff]

Easily the best and easiest optimizing windows videos to follow and it helped a bunch!

[NessNT]

Thanks! Definitely needed this as in some of my free time I'll check this over to ensure reliability.

[philipbrady]

i have been waiting for this!! excellent

[shayntaylor]

This guide is incredible. I was averaging 150fps on my 2070super in CS2 before the guide. Average now is 280-300 on every map. No stutter. Screen tear has disappeared and no weird crashes of the game in certain situations (I could never peak red box T-side on nuke without a crash)

I haven’t change any in game settings.

What an amazing guide Thankyou !!

[Darth_Nelo]

This vid is awesome. One of the better optimization vids I've come across. Worth watching from 00:00 - 34:17

[michaelthompson]

Awesome video Bry 💪😇👍, I honestly learned a lot more telemetry and background services from this video to help smooth out my pc performance. I’d rather a lean responsive pc to an rgb eye candy bloatware version 🤩👍🥰💪. Thanks for this upload my man 🥂🍻

[Lucaat]

I think core isolation/memory integrity off also makes a difference in real world FPS in some cases.

[WSS_the_OG]

I've been watching, and enjoying these videos, for years now! Just one suggestion: could you do a more in depth discussion about the pros and cons of disabling some of the services, as well as what they're actually doing? Cheers!

[playstation]

i am watching your optimize vidios since 2015. Time flies, love your videos!

[DaemonJax]

I mod a LOT of games, and I've NEVER seen a game with anything but 16bit/44.1khz audio files. Not saying they 100% don't exist, but if they do (it's not like I played every single pc game out there), they'd REALLY advertise it... like it would be a BIG DEAL for them to instruct their users to set their audio to 24bit/48khz -- and I'm not aware of ANY devs/game studios/game publishers that do. It would be in the system requirements at least under "recommended".

[WillbmeEVA]

Thank you for your content, I love the Inverted Colors shortcut.

[nikobellic]

This is exactly what I wanted thank you ❤

[DaemonJax]

On Distributed link tracking... what it does is keep track of shortcuts (symlinks), so if you move/rename the target of the shortcut to another location, it'll update the shortcut (or symnlink) to it. Useful? Not really since the EXPECTED behavior if you move/rename the target of a shortcut is to break the shortcut. But I can see it useful in an office environment using shared storage where you'd prefer that OTHER PEOPLE don't break YOUR shortcuts if they move/rename files.

[KaledTV]

Great guide, I already do most of the stuff shown here, I'll save it for when I need it to show others what to do, thanks.

[NN]

I have been using Windows 10 since 2018, and still in 2023 it's still one of the best stable operating systems.
Now having that said, I have been testing Windows 11 more precise Tiny11 on an old m.2 drive.
To my surprise it feels and runs even better than Windows 10 LTSC. Soon I will make my own Tiny11 with tools that are out there and go Fully Windows 11.

I hardly update my windows through a year, updating maybe 5 times in a year. And for sure I make an image clone of my C: partition every time.
I think more people should try out the tiny11 Windows as a test system and see what they think, I think many will like it with the Windows 10 UI mod.