The real cause of a sluggish PC is often unexpected.
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Veteran Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB to run smoothly on 90s PCs
The same Dave Plummer was the genius behind Windows’ ZIP file support.
To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.
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