New Delhi, Nov. 14 -- Is your laptop getting slower and constantly hesitating to open apps? Well, you don't always need new hardware to recover some of the speed you remember from the day you got it out of the box. Two approaches that include cutting the clutter and regular maintenance have helped millions of users breathe new life into their ageing devices, often within an hour.

Most older laptops are weighed down by years of unused apps, cluttered storage, and automatic startup processes that creep in unnoticed. The easiest win is to turn off unnecessary programs that launch each time you boot your machine. For Windows, open Task Manager and use the Startup tab to disable anything you don't need and on macOS, head to Login Items in Sys...