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ASUS Laptop Running Slow? Fix It in 8 Ways!
If your ASUS laptop running slow, read to know why it occurs and fix it in 8 ways. These work for all ASUS running Windows system. Use the 8 methods to speed up your ASUS laptop now.
By Bryce / Updated on August 9, 2024
My ASUS laptop running slow on Windows 10 and 11
I have an Asus laptop with Windows 10 installed. Now, It takes tens of seconds even 1 minute to boot up and I have to wait patiently for application to open. Sometimes, my mouse pointer would be stuck and can’t be moved. Can you tell me why is it running so slow and how can I optimize it?
Is your ASUS ZenBook, VivoBook, ROG (Republic of Gamers), or ExpertBook laptops running slow without reasons? Surprisingly, even a brand-new ASUS laptop still running slow on Windows 10 and 11 as well. In this article, let's explore why is your ASUS laptop so slow and how to fix it effectively in 8 ways.
Why is your ASUS laptop running so slow?
It’s fairly annoying when you are working but your laptop is slow to startup or to open apps. You may want to know, why is my ASUS laptop so slow. To speed up ASUS laptop, you’d better have a closer look at what makes it run slow. Some reasons are given below:
1. Extra unnecessary startup programs
2. The capacity of RAM (random access memory) is too small.
3. Too many applications are running at the same time.
4. Virtual memory is not enough.
5. Your system drive is running out of space.
6. SSD (solid state drive) partition is not aligned.
7. Fragments on HDD (hard disk drive).
8. Old or small hard disk to run Windows 10 or 11.
9. Your Asus laptop collets lots of dust in the fans and vents.
How to speed up ASUS laptops and make it run faster?
Now, it’s time to get into the specific methods about fixing slow Asus laptop. Here are 8 different methods. Based on your needs, you can click to read specific parts by hitting the Table of Contents on the left side.
Method 1. Clone to a newer and larger hard disk
If your ASUS laptop is running slow after several years of use, it might be time to consider replacing the hard drive. To upgrade to a newer and larger hard disk easily and effectively, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant to move all content from your current small disk to a larger one without reinstallation, and clone hard disk with secure boot.
In addition to common clone measures, AOMEI Partition Assistant even allows you to clone HDD to SSD or clone a large drive to a small one. Now, follow the guide to do that. You can free download it to have a try at first!
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- You can clone only used space, which makes it possible to clone when the used space on the source drive is not larger than the capacity of the target disk.
- If the new disk is too small to contain all the data on the existing drive, or you only want to transfer the operating system, you can just Migrate OS to SSD, enabling you to clone only OS-related partitions to a new drive.
- This tool doesn't have any brand limitations, you can clone disks between different brands.
- The tool employs the hot clone technique you can use your computer during the cloning process as it can run in the background.
1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".
2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".
3. Select the destination disk to store the data on the source disk, and then click "Next".
4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to “Sector to Sector clone”, and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.
Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive.
5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.
Method 2. Align partition to improve SSD’s performance
If your Asus laptop with Windows 11/10 installed becomes slow after you clone HDD to SSD, you can try to make 4K alignment for SSD, as partition alignment is important for SSD’s performance. Refer to the detailed steps listed below:
1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, right-click the partition and choose Advanced and Partition Alignment.
2. In the small pop-up window, Set partition alignment to 4096 sector and click OK.
4. Click Apply and Proceed to commit the operation.
Method 3. Schedule Defrag partition on your HDD
Too many fragmentations can cause system hard drive sluggish after long-time use. Thus, it’s not a bad choice to defrag your HDD partition to speed up ASUS laptops.
Warning: Do not defrag your SSD.
1. Launch AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro, select the target disk or partition, and choose “Disk Defrag” or “Defrag Partition”.
2. In the pop window, you can see all your used drives. Because we need to set a schedule, you need to click the button “Schedule”, but you can also directly defrag the disk or partition if you want.
3. In the schedule settings, you can select drives, the specific date and time to defrag the target drives, then click “OK” to save the settings.
4. Click “Conditions”, you can set the rate of fragmentation to trigger the schedule to defrag your disk. And there are other options to help you make a detailed schedule.
Click "OK" to save your schedule, then your computer will automatically defrag the assigned drives.
Note: To improve the laptop’s performance, you can choose to upgrade HDD to SSD.
Method 4. Disable unneeded startup applications
Too many startup programs slow down the boot process of your computer. Thus, it’s very necessary to disable unnecessary applications that will start automatically every time you boot computer. This method may be effectively when your brand-new ASUS laptop running slow on Windows 11 and 10. Do the following steps:
1.Press “Ctrl+Alt+Del" and choose "Task Manager",
2. In Task Manager window, click “Startup” tab and you can see the startup programs.
3. Right-click the program that you don’t want to load automatically when booting and choose Disable.
4. Then you can exit form this window and the program won’t load on computer startup.
Method 5. Increase the capacity of RAM or end a process
When the capacity of your laptop’s RAM can’t is too small, your laptop can’t support overmuch applications to run smoothly. In such a condition, installing new RAM chips to increase the capacity of RAM will be rather effective in improving laptop’s performance. To see the specific condition of your RAM, In Task Manager, click Performance and Mermory.
Or if you consider that the capacity of mermory is large enough, you can end the process that takes up too much memory to speed up laptop. In Task Manager, click Processes and you can see all running process. To end a process, right click it and choose End Task.
Method 6. Extend virtual memory
Virtual memory can compensate for the physical memroy by temporarily transferring data from RAM to disk storage. If your Asus computer’s virtual memory is too low, its speed can be affected. Check out the detailed steps on how to extend virtual memory.
1. Right-click “This PC” and choose “Properties.
2.In the pop-up window, click “Advanced system settings”.
3. Click “Settings” under the “Advanced” tab and click “Advanced”.
4.Click “Change” under “Virtual Memory” and Uncheck “Automatically manage paging file size of all drives”.
5. Choose the drive that contains the paging files you want to change, click “Custom size” and type a new size in megabytes in the Initial size or Maximum size.
6. Click “Set” and “OK”.
Method 7. Clean out the dust
If your Asus laptop collects lots of dust in the fans and vents, its dissipation can be impacted and it can be slow to respond. Thus, it’s necessary to clean out the dust after your laptop has been used for a long time. This is an easy method to fix ASUS laptop slow issue.
Method 8. Free up disk space
When your system drive is almost full, the laptop’s performance will be affected. At this point, you can delete unnecessary files, uninstall unneeded applications to reclaim disk space. To remove temporary files that you don’t need, you can run Disk Cleanup through following steps
1. Double click This PC to enter File Explorer, right click system drive and select Properties.
2. Click Disk Cleanup and the available space that can be freed on C drive will be calculated.
3. After that, choose the files that you need to delete.
Final fix: wipe your current hard drive and reinstall Windows 11/10
If you don’t want to delete files or uninstall unnecessary files one by one, add RAM chips, upgrade to a larger disk, and so on, wipe all data off the disk in use might be a proper solution. Then, you can reinstall Windows 11/10. What you shouldn’t forget is to back up necessary files before wiping.
AOMEI Partition Assistant also offers this function.
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If you are using a SSD, please choose Secure Erase SSD.
Conclusion
All of these are how to fix ASUS laptop running slow issue in 7 ways. As you can see, AOMEI Partition Assistant is a comprehensive and multifunctional software to fix computer issues. If you are using Windows devices, do not miss out this powerful tool. For Windows Server users, it also provides AOMEI Partition Assistant Server edition.
