4 Windows settings I changed to push my PC to the max

Ultimately, at some point, there’s only so much software can do to fix a Windows PC’s performance. You can’t expect a five-year-old machine to keep up with the latest in photorealistic 3D games, or edit 4K video as smooth as butter. And with antivirus protection being on by default, you can’t blame viruses the way some parents in the ’90s used to.