Want more speed from your Windows 10 laptop? Here are a few registry tweaks that can enhance the performance of your Windows 10 system.

Speed up the Startup apps during launch

Microsoft engineers have programmed a small delay in Startup apps at launch.  You can disable this startup delay of the Startup apps and get faster access to them.  You do this by tweaking the registry. Only do this if you feel confident making registry edits and of course make a restore point. Here are the steps you need to follow to disable the startup delay:

1. Go to Start
2. Type Regedit in the Search box
3. Select Regedit in the list of search results and open the Registry Editor
4. Navigate to – HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerSerialize
5. In the right panel, right click on the “StartupDelayInMSec” key
6. Modify the value to “0”
7. If the Serialize or the StartupDelayInMSec key doesn’t exist, you need to create it by following the steps given below
8. Right click in the window Explorer and select New > Key
9. Name it as Serialize
10. Right click on Serialize and select create a new DWORD value called “StartupDelayInMSec”
11. Set its value to “0”

Hide Unwanted Folders from This PC view

Since Windows 8.1, folders like Desktop, documents, pictures, music, videos and downloads are displayed along with other drives in This PC view. This is an undesirable and even annoying feature for many and it also causes a delay in accessing the drives, as you cannot access the drives until windows explorer finishes loading every default folder. The best thing to do is disable the display of folders and get faster access to the drives. A registry tweak is all you need to achieve this. Here are the steps you need to follow:

1. Open the Registry editor
2. You need to make 6 registry key edits to remove all 6 folders from ThisPC view
3. To remove the Desktop folder navigate to
4. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FolderDescriptions\{B4BFCC3A-DB2C-424C-B029-7FE99A87C641}\PropertyBag
5. In the right-hand panel, look for ThisPCPolicy. Right-click on it and change the value of the key to “Hide”
6. Follow similar steps to remove all remaining 5 folders. go to keys one by one and change the ThisPCPolicy value to Hide

• For the Music folder navigate to :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FolderDescriptions\ {a0c69a99-21c8-4671-8703-7934162fcf1d}\PropertyBag

• For the Pictures folder navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FolderDescriptions\ {0ddd015d-b06c-45d5-8c4c-f59713854639}\PropertyBag

• For the Videos folder navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FolderDescriptions\ {35286a68-3c57-41a1-bbb1-0eae73d76c95}\PropertyBag

• For the Downloads folder navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FolderDescriptions\ {7d83ee9b-2244-4e70-b1f5-5393042af1e4}\PropertyBag

• For the Documents folder navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ FolderDescriptions\ {f42ee2d3-909f-4907-8871-4c22fc0bf756}\PropertyBag