To improve performance on Windows 11, you can safely end processes like unused apps, bloatware (e.g., Copilot, Phone Link), high-resource processes, and peripheral-related programs via Task Manager.

I haven't used any in years, yet they are eating into system resources.

For all the things Windows 11 genuinely does right (the list is getting shorter every day), it also manages to do a lot of things wrong — quietly, constantly, and entirely under the hood. A modern ...