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Measure, then fix Tashreef Shareef starts with AppControl, which keeps seven days of CPU, GPU, memory, disk, and temperature history so yesterday's slowdown can still be traced to its cause, then uses Wintoys to review apps, background services, system tweaks, and storage cleanup from one window, CrystalDiskMark to settle whether the drive is the bottleneck with sequential and random 4K tests, and Microsoft PC Manager for the plain work of clearing temporary files and uninstalling leftovers; all four are free, and the piece flags that Wintoys is closed source and that its developer has mentioned future paid premium features, none of which have appeared yet.

Five passes, one system Vishwamoorthy Ramakrishnan turns notifications off outright for rarely opened apps by long-pressing the icon and going through App Info to Notifications, then splits the apps worth keeping into their own categories so an order update arrives and the promotion behind it does not, gives the categories that matter distinct sounds so the phone can be read without looking at it, switches on the snooze button to push an alert up to two hours out, and enables notification history to recover anything swiped away in the last 24 hours; the warning attached is that snoozing and history are off by default and sit behind differently named menus on Pixel and Samsung phones.

Set once, reuse always T.M. Amrita opens Settings, then Modes and Routines, adds a custom mode, and decides inside it which apps and notifications get through, what the display does, and how do not disturb behaves, optionally attaching if-then routines so the mode switches itself on, then puts it on the home screen or in the notification panel so one tap flips the whole phone into it; the setup happens once and is reused every trip, and Amrita notes newer Galaxy models label the feature differently and that phones without it need a third-party automation app such as IFTTT.