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10 Windows 11 tips and tricks we use to customize our PCs

The best Windows 11 tips are the ones you use—to make you more efficient and productive, and to customize your PC so it’s exactly how you want it to be.

But to integrate a tip, you have to actually try it out. So that’s what we’d like you to do: Give each of these tips a quick whirl, see if they work for you, and if they do, great! We want to share what helps us and hope that it helps you as well. The list below includes tips for both older features and newer ones. Either way, enjoy!

1. OPTIMIZE YOUR STARTUP APPS

Everyone hits the gym to start off the year. So why not use the time to trim some of the holiday bloat from your PC? There are potentially dozens of apps that can gobbling up memory when it’s completed.

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