How to refresh (speed up) a Windows PC without rebooting?

Solution 1:

You seem to be running a lot of Chrome tabs/extensions as well as Pale Moon at the same time. Could you perhaps use only one browser and stop unnecessary extensions and tabs? Chrome has annoying default behaviour of running some processes in the background even when you are not using it but this can be turned off in settings. It's been highlighted by others but something is going on with Ultra Search, do you need this running just now? If you are using up most of your computer's memory perhaps you have a hard drive or virtual memory problem. Also sometimes when computer is going very slow there is a driver problem, perhaps you could check this out. I would also second what others have said, be wary of software that claims to enhance performance. I have known some to be Trojans. If you could easily enhance performance then the OS would probably be doing it already.