All of these are signs of a slow net web surfer.

Fortunately, you could speed it up with a few simple steps.

This willopen Microsoft Edge’s task manager, which lets you monitor the resource consumption of processes.

Opening the task manager in Microsoft Edge

tap the “Memory” column header to sort tasks by memory usage.

Find the non-essential processes taking up most of your system’s resources.

Then, select each one individually and hit the “End Process” button to terminate it.

Ending a resource-intensive process from task manager in Microsoft Edge

If closing down some processes improves online window performance, note them and avoid running them simultaneously.

If closing them doesn’t make any difference, go to the next step.

If your online window has this mode enabled, you will likely experience performance issues.

Disabling the efficiency mode in Microsoft Edge

Disabling efficiency mode will surely improve web client performance, but the power consumption will also increase.

Then, hit “Download and Install.”

Wait for the download to complete and power cycle your web app to install it.

Opening the help and feedback settings in Microsoft Edge

This allows Edge to download updates even when you are on a metered connection and update itself automatically.

This improves the performance of the online window as a whole.

This feature keeps the surfing app running in the background, allowing it to launch faster.

Browser showing that Microsoft Edge is fully up to date

Then, go for the “Appearance” tab on the left.

Here, go for the “Default” theme from the available options.

Although sometimes helpful, such trackers add additional processing load that can adversely affect your web app performance.

Enabling hardware acceleration in Microsoft Edge

Thankfully, you might customize the tracking preferences in Microsoft Edge.

Choose “Balanced” as its most recommended option.

With “Strict” tracking prevention selected, you may occasionally encounter issues when visiting websites.

Enabling startup boost in Microsoft Edge

If that happens, switch back to “Balanced.”

If you haven’t decluttered them in a while, it’s time you do so.

So, nudge the three horizontal dots in the top-right corner and click “Extensions.”

Switching to default theme in Microsoft Edge

Then, select “Manage Extensions.”

Here, find those you don’t use frequently anddisable or remove your Edge extensions.

To disable an extension, turn off the toggle next to it.

Changing the tracking prevention settings in Microsoft Edge

Though useful, not clearing this cache can sometimes slow down the internet tool.

This will revert its tweaks to default, ensuring that misconfigured tweaks aren’t causing it to slow down.

To reset a online window, navigate to parameters > Reset parameters.

Opening the extensions page to disable or remove them in Microsoft Edge

Click “Restore options To Their Default Values” and then “Reset” again in the confirmation box.

That’s how it’s possible for you to speed up Microsoft Edge.

Disabling and removing an extension from Microsoft Edge

Clearing the DNS host cache in Microsoft Edge

Resetting Microsoft Edge settings